Originally Posted by
theexpress 
i wasnt even born untill the 80's lolol.... i smoked those strains in the 90's that was the last time they were available..
Regardless of what strains you may have been told you were sold and then smoked. The strains I talk about were almost impossible if not impossible to find in their pure form in the 90's.
As you put it; "
heres my beef though" Since you were not even alive when the strains I talk about were pure and plentiful how can you believe you can be accurate comparing something that I can assure you was not the same that you smoked two decades or longer later to what I smoked?
People like you believe it is a nostalgia thing, or maybe even a trick of the memory making us believe certain strains were as or more potent than anything today and you say condescending things like; "
i understand that it takes you back to "better times"" Well if you were not alive then and partaking in the same thing, there is in fact absolutely no way you can know for sure and all you have to go on is your own belief, your own opinion, and people like you refuse to accept my actual experiences.
Here is an example of how young people today refuse to accept certain things about the past and absolutely have to believe new current things are better. One of my friends had a later in life son and recently he bought his son a new 2011 Mustang GT 5.0. As hard as it will be for most here to believe I am like the cool hippie uncle to most of my friends kids. I was telling him about my old 1970 Dodge Challenger 440 Magnum 4-speed and how it was never beaten once in a street race and gave him a tip about leaving the line at a stop light. I said don't watch for your light to turn green, watch to see the crossing traffics light to turn red and then count to two and nail it ... because with most stop lights there is a three second delay between the one turning red and the other green. I said by the time you hit the gas and your car starts to move your light will be green and it will look like you have faster reflexes and your car is just quicker off the line. Hid dad did NOT appreciate me giving him that tip.
Well the kid then said something about how my old 440 might never have been beaten but how it would not stand a chance against cars like his and ones his friends have. He said none of those old "heavy metal" cars of the past were as fast as his, which is supposed to be able to turn a quarter mile in 13 seconds at 110.6 MPH.
I told him that he was wrong, that there were some old Detroit iron cars that would leave his car in the dust. He would not believe me, but he didn't know that the 1968 Dodge Hemi Dart and Plymouth Hemi Cuda would turn a quarter mile in 10.3 seconds at 130MPH and that a a 1970 Buick Stage 2 GS would turn high 10 second quarter miles at 130MPH or that a 1964 Dodge 426 Hemi would turn a 11.4 second quarter at 125 MPH or, to skip forward a few years, my 1970 Dodge Challenger 440, with the optional 6-pack instead of the standard 4-barrel carb, would turn a quarter mile in 13 seconds at 125 MPH ... all factory stock cars .. and that there were a bunch more that would beat, or equal his new car when it came to pure acceleration and speed in a quarter mile run.
If someone does not experience the exact same thing, the very same thing, then they never really know about it and anything they say about it is nothing more than opinion and personally held belief.
Borrow Mr. Peabody's Wayback Machine and bop back in time and grab some of what my brother in law shipped home from Vietnam and visit Panama and find the real true Panama Red that could take up to 22 weeks to finish and then buzz over to Africa and pick up some of the real Malawi Gold, and then go around and pick up some of the other strains I mentioned, in their pure form when they were at their best, smoke them, and then get back to me.
The closest I have ever come to getting as high off a modern strain was from a strain I would love to know the name of but the guy I get it from now and then will not tell what it is. The father of the college roommate of one of my friend's son is an entertainment attorney in LA. He represents a number of major stars, producers and directors, along with a few professional athletes and former professional athletes. He has gotten high since he was a kid, he smokes the same grade pot as his clients purchased from the same sources. When his son went to college he complained about the lack of quality of smoke so his dad kept him supplied with enough for him and his friends. Through my friend's son, I have purchased what he gets a number of times. One Christmas my oldest niece gave me an ounce of it. It is VERY potent pot and it does come close to the best of what I used to smoke in the late 60's and 70's, but it doesn't top it.
Since the late 60's I have smoked just about every strain imaginable and all of the most famous most killer weed there has been, right up until today. I have a comparative base that most today totally lack. I have experience with strains that many never had access to, let alone smoked or grew and smoked.
If any of you ever say the movie "Woodstock" you might remember the Arlo Guthrie song "Coming Into Las Angeles" with the chorus of:
Coming into Los Angeles Bringing in a couple of keys Don't touch my bags if you please Mister Customs Man
I had friends that did that, though not in suitcases to go through Customs with. One friend's father was an archeologist and my friend would go on digs if it would be in some area famous for a strain of pot and he would have a crate packed full and stamped with the name of the college his father was a professor for, and my friend would purchase it right from the farmer/grower for peanuts and we'd party like mad.
The father of two friends of mine, brothers, had a construction company, one that would build dams and long highway bridges and dig lone tunnels and they did a lot of work in Central and South America and they would visit the sites and sometimes work for a while with the crews. When all their equipment was shipped back they would have some packed with the best stuff the region offered, again purchasing it from the farmer/growers almost for pennies and like my other friend, they would at times virtually hand it out to their best friends.
This stuff was the Real McCoy, this stuff was pure, this stuff came before the era where the same farmers learned of heavier producing indicas and attempted to make crosses to increase their yields and destroyed what in some cases might have been 'The Holy Grail' that 'The Dutch Masters' have attempted to create for decades, and failed.
Until you, and others, have smoked the exact same strains from the same era, along with all the others I have mentioned, the most you have to go by is opinion, belief and conjecture. Like it or not .... that is an honest to goodness fact.
