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Soaking weed with something in the 80s/90s???

andrzelika

andrzelika

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Hiii I made this account specifically to ask this question so it might be that I am posting it in the wrong category... So yeah sorry about that

So a few days ago I was talking to my mom and she said that when she was young (80s, 90s) her friend gave her weed that was "soaked with something" and that it made her super high from like two drags. I asked what was it soaked with, but she said she can't remember now. I am really curious what it could be because I never heard of something like that. For reference we are from Poland and we had communism back in the 80s so like... we had very limited resources I guess.
 
This was a common myth years ago. Im from Canada and ive heard it to. Likely thre was the same case as here where you where so used to getting low quality weed that some fire knocked you on your ass. I remember the first time i got white rhino very specifically cause i got so high lol.

Now im so spoiled with legal weed honestly. I still remember when a joint of northern lights would have me fucked

Now you could get weed dipped in PCP in some places (like sherm sticks think GTA san andreas) but you had to pay for that. Dust was way more expensive then weed and i doubt very much there was any in communist poland. It was mostly a north american thing
 
I don't think any PCP made it to any parts of Poland then, it was mostly an American thing from what I've read.
 
cycloprop said:
I don't think any PCP made it to any parts of Poland then, it was mostly an American thing from what I've read.
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It was around some parts of Canada to mainly Quebec. Bikers used to make it back in the day. But i seriously doubt you had gangs in Communist Poland making it
 
PCP in 90s Poland would definitely be possible, Polish diaspora from North America started visiting Poland more often during that time, so it's possible they could have smuggled PCP on a flight there.
 
cycloprop said:
PCP in 90s Poland would definitely be possible, Polish diaspora from North America started visiting Poland more often during that time, so it's possible they could have smuggled PCP on a flight there.
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True not like you got searched back then really at all. But it wouldnt be very widely available i dont think. Youd have been taking a risk making that in the east bloc back then for sure
 
I am also from eastern Europe and remember that in 90's I had access to weed which was said to be soaked in something.
It really has had weird effects, after some experiences later I would say that it was adulterated with synthetic cannabinoids. But that was not known at that time, so most likely it was something else. Ofc, your mom's case is probably unrelated.

Various substances existed during communist times here, but you had to be member of very closed group of people.
 
I can comment only about situation in communist Czechoslovakia:

Drug use was never so widespread as in the West, mostly because borders were closed and police could and did monitor citizens very closely and effectively. It was also ilegal to be unemployed, so to be a full time drug user was quite complicated.
That's why drug use was never on street level, but only in small, mostly hidden, isolated groups of hobbyist, intellectuals, chemists, enthusiasts etc. There was not any drug market in modern terms. You had to be connected.

Some substances were official, legal drugs from doctor's prescriptions used by normal population (phenmetrazine was quite popular in 70s, codeine from painkillers as well, etc).

History of LSD is pretty well summarized here: LSD
It was really limited only for scientific purposes (you most likely know Stan Grof), but some very small amount was diverted into small groups for recreational purposes.
Mushrooms were known from ancient times in local folklore to produce weird effects, but afaik it became really known and used only in early 80s. Some people probably used is also sooner as hippies were also present here during 60ties and informations from the west were available.

Clandestine methamphetamine production (from ephedrine, iodide and red phosporus) started only in 1978, but as it was not illegal until 1985, it was relatively popular.

Some people try to forfeit doctor prescriptions, or even stole from pharmacies or research institutes (mostly morphine, but in some cases even cocaine). Lot of them were caught as police did not need to be concerned about human rights.

There was also personal level production of drug called braun (some form of opiate produced from codeine, extracted from pills), or crudely acetylated poppy extract (probably something similar to tar in US, known in english as Polish compote or Polish heroin, more here: Polish heroin as poppy pods were (and still are) easily available.

Cannabis was also grown, at least from early 80s, but I have no doubts that even sooner.
 
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We had “dope” weed around here, and that’s the truth. They sold me weed like that when I was young, and I threw it away. I had heard rumors, but I didn’t believe them.

They actually sprinkled the weed with heroin or crushed pills to get people hooked. I thought it was nonsense that old timers used to say, but it was true. A sketchy guy sold me some “dope” weed once.

I haven’t seen it or heard anything about it for a very, very long time.
 
doubledog said:
I can comment only about situation in communist Czechoslovakia:
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doubledog said:
Clandestine methamphetamine production (from ephedrine, iodide and red phosporus) started only in 1978, but as it was not illegal until 1985, it was relatively popular.
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Is that the meth that ended up on in Leipzig in the second half of the Nineties, or was it there earlier?

Do you know?

Can you corroborate or deny it?
 
I know that Czech made meth was exported into Germany in the 90s, mostly to regions close to border.
It was also common to teach other people how to cook it, mostly traded for ingredients as ephedrine became less available in that period.
 
Well, Kompot was reasonably common after 1976 and I suppose if 95% ethanol was the solvent, dipping cannabis in it MAY have worked. Certainly I have used absolute ethanol to extract actives which were then absorbed into rolling tobacco.

But franky, all anyone can possibly do is guess unless whomever supplied that cannabis is also on BL...
 
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