I am NOT the oldest person here !

curious old fart

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59 here. Fired up my first doobie in '69 and have been smoking ever since. With the $5 matchboxes we also had manila bags for $20 and when baggies came out they were either 3 or 4 fingers for $25. Full of stems and seeds. I remember cleaning an ounce and when I was through it was 5 grams of smoke. As I have matured, so has the quality of marijuana.

peace
cof
 

Puffster

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ya know this thread brings to mind something ive been thinking about.what about a seniors forumn?say 35 an over.the hiding the plant in my dorm room thing is getting old.
 

Roseman

Elite Rolling Society
soon to be 61 and smoking since 66'. i remember paying $20 :mrgreen:for a wax paper bag of kona gold, 3 fingers. full of seeds and twigs but so stony. drop a hit of mescaline :eyesmoke:a bottle of boones farms and a lid of weed. oh well.:peace:
We ought to start or have an OLDER Person thread or place to visit and chat about the old times.

Boones Farm wine ws very popular then. I don't know if it can still be found now, or not.

I almost got busted buying empty capsules at a drugstore to put powdered synthtic mescaline in. There was 4 of us, we drew straws and the loser took the blame for the dope in the car, after the druggest called the cops to us.
 

Roseman

Elite Rolling Society
Dude! Can you score me lid? I haven't said those words in thirty years. When I started stoning, lids were on the way out and ounces were on the way in. An ounce of schwag would cost you 30 bones. Of course, you were paying for about 20 grams of seeds. We ended up saving all our seeds into a five pound bag that caused all sorts of problems trying to do something with it.
Remember the days of Panama Red and Columbian Gold? In those days, if you couldn't roll a fat joint with one hand in half a Top paper, you just weren't cool! Cops back then were pretty harsh too. They would try to bust you for the kind of ASHES you had in the ashtray.

Ahhhh, the good old days. BTW I am 45. Peace.
I wish I could find some Panama Red or some sort of GoldBud.

We was paying $15 to $20 a lid, when all of a sudden, "the man" had ounces for $20 and $25. Pot came in BRICKS, so compressed, they were like concrete blocks or red clay bricks.
And earlier, we smoke seed and stem, then it wasn't cool anymore to leave the seeds in.
What was "cool" or "in" ruled us and determined how we acted.
 

Roseman

Elite Rolling Society
what was the bud like then rose
There really wsn't much BUD. Pot came in compressed bricks, compressed so tight, you just broke a chunk off and crumbled it and rolled it. Those bricks had big stems, lots of leaves, lots of seeds, even the males would be in there. Only after we saw Jamacian and Panama and Columbian, did we see an actual bud. And there was a short period of time when BUDs were 99% seeds and not desirable, we foolishly and mistakenly wanted the leaves.
And all the rolling papers were very thick then.
 

Roseman

Elite Rolling Society
I'm 55. In 1974 I bought a pound of columbian red bud.It cost me $150.00.(a fortune then)It was in a waxed paper bag.I smoked it with all my friends before entering the Navy.Ahhhh...Those were the days.
I wish I had some Columbian Redbud now. Little bitty skinny red buds, the and smallest seed I've ever seen too.
 

Roseman

Elite Rolling Society
59 here. Fired up my first doobie in '69 and have been smoking ever since. With the $5 matchboxes we also had manila bags for $20 and when baggies came out they were either 3 or 4 fingers for $25. Full of stems and seeds. I remember cleaning an ounce and when I was through it was 5 grams of smoke. As I have matured, so has the quality of marijuana.

peace
cof
I forgot those little manilla envelopes. Paper envelopes about two inches square. About 80% seed.
 

Roseman

Elite Rolling Society
ya know this thread brings to mind something ive been thinking about.what about a seniors forumn?say 35 an over.the hiding the plant in my dorm room thing is getting old.

It'd be super nice to have a Senior Forum for the more mature members.
 

maxamus1

Well-Known Member
it would be cool to see the older cat have their own form on here. i would just want to peek in to read some cool stories. anyways hope to see it on riu soon.
 

medicineman

New Member
I'm 68, not the oldest on the site, ViRoid is older than I by a couple a years. Lids were the common name when I started smoking. In Ca, By the beach where I lived, 10.00 sandwich baggies (Lids) were stuffed full. I always broke up the kilos in the bathtub, duct taped the drain and let er rip. Usually got between 28 and 30 lids out of a kilo after removing major stems and seeds. Paid 50.00 for a kilo of decent Mex. and 75.00-100.00 for exotics like columbian gold, acapulco gold, and Panama red. There were some other favorites, like Zacatecas, Michoacan, Oaxacan, and a few other Mexican varieties that were special. I usually sold the 10.00 lids to most of my customers and kept the hard to get exotics for myself and a few close friends. I've had as many as 500 Kilos stored in my beachhouse garage at one time or another. Never got busted while living at that address. I'm pretty sure the local cops knew something was going on. When I sold any of the exotics, they went for 15.00 a 4 finger lid. Of all the Mexican varieties, Michoacan was pretty high on my list, my all time favorite was Panama Red, those were the days, cheap weed and tequila, couldn't get much better.
 

Big P

Well-Known Member
I'm 68, not the oldest on the site, ViRoid is older than I by a couple a years. Lids were the common name when I started smoking. In Ca, By the beach where I lived, 10.00 sandwich baggies (Lids) were stuffed full. I always broke up the kilos in the bathtub, duct taped the drain and let er rip. Usually got between 28 and 30 lids out of a kilo after removing major stems and seeds. Paid 50.00 for a kilo of decent Mex. and 75.00-100.00 for exotics like columbian gold, acapulco gold, and Panama red. There were some other favorites, like Zacatecas, Michoacan, Oaxacan, and a few other Mexican varieties that were special. I usually sold the 10.00 lids to most of my customers and kept the hard to get exotics for myself and a few close friends. I've had as many as 500 Kilos stored in my beachhouse garage at one time or another. Never got busted while living at that address. I'm pretty sure the local cops knew something was going on. When I sold any of the exotics, they went for 15.00 a 4 finger lid. Of all the Mexican varieties, Michoacan was pretty high on my list, my all time favorite was Panama Red, those were the days, cheap weed and tequila, couldn't get much better.

damn medi you got some balls, i didnt know you used to be a big time husla back in the day


after that you went to nam right?
 

Puffster

Well-Known Member
we used to spread out a ny times on a wood floor and bust up garbage bags stuffed full.as long as the bag was within a few lbs of what was agreed on,no body wood bitch cause there was so much "chum" in the puff.
 

ireaddd

Well-Known Member
Dude! Can you score me lid? I haven't said those words in thirty years. When I started stoning, lids were on the way out and ounces were on the way in. An ounce of schwag would cost you 30 bones. Of course, you were paying for about 20 grams of seeds. We ended up saving all our seeds into a five pound bag that caused all sorts of problems trying to do something with it.
Remember the days of Panama Red and Columbian Gold? In those days, if you couldn't roll a fat joint with one hand in half a Top paper, you just weren't cool! Cops back then were pretty harsh too. They would try to bust you for the kind of ASHES you had in the ashtray.

Ahhhh, the good old days. BTW I am 45. Peace.
don't think they stop doing this
back then they weren't smart enough to search every crevace of your car and air raid grow sites. these days kids get send home and suspended from school not from having weed, but 'appearing' high

i am a baby, and thanks to old guys like rose use youngins are gonna be a hell of a generation of growers. much thanks for smoking that and creating kush for us :)
 
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