doingdishes
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what high school? I went to Bonnie Doon
The history of weed growing in Canada (especially BC) in the 80s and 90s?
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chuck estevez
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I grew up in so cal in that same time, all the BC weed sucked, it was shit compared to what we used to get. some of the mexican brick weed was better.
Gquebed
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Ross Shep and Vic Comp. Shep had all the Thai. Vic had all the back hash.
I had the best of both worlds, having gone to both schools...lol
The Hippy
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Still exist....suicide Cheese...hard to contain the stink.
nsbudca
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That's an awesome story.
First time I got really high it was after school, before a dance and I was hanging around school until the dance cause my band was playing it and we needed to set up and reherse.
Man this story is too much to type but it was like falling down the rabbit hole . Some people I encountered while walking around the school were the principle, the band teacher, the janitor and my mom.
I'd fucking do it again right now though. Good times.
nsbudca
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I'll buy it all? What's your price again hippy? 21 cents a pound?
The Hippy
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Funny thing is it's the ugliest weed I've ever seen. Not brick weed ugly...butt ugly and stinky dank. Loaded with frost usually. Low rot type taste. Zero hair color and army green......eh Gb ?
The Hippy
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And a real bitch to grow too.
Gquebed
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The only strain that really reminds me of the BC hydro we used to get here is Northern Lights #5. It has a bit of the "piney" smell and taste to it that I remember...
From what I understand the NL has been a parent to all kinds of strains since....
Gquebed
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Ground zero, maybe????
http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/12/16/BC-Pot-Farmer/
Pot country
Since the early 1970s, the remote west Kootenay region of the Purcell Mountains near the B.C.-Alberta border has been a prime location for marijuana cultivation. A vast network of inactive logging roads provided easy access to south-facing clear-cuts where mineral rich soil was irrigated by glacial spring run-off -- perfect conditions for bud-heavy weed plants. It didn't hurt that there was little to no police presence between many of the unincorporated lakeside towns, places with names like Argenta, Rosebery and Glade. And all through the region, there was an unceasing demand for high quality bud.
The Kootenay region has long been a place where smoking pot is part of everyday life. Joe De Maria*, a resident of the Slocan Valley, was part of the original wave of young, idealistic people who converged in the Kootenays in the '70s. "The valley was idyllic," he says. "In the beginning, growing marijuana was just part of the mentality. It wasn't until the '80s that a lot of friends and neighbours started to make good money from it."
At first, people grew their plants on the mountainsides around their homes. When they started getting high prices from Calgary and Vancouver, they began to poll together and export their crops. The growers shared their horticultural knowledge and their clones, cultivating stronger, more refined strains.
While they exported around the country, the growers also had a market ten times the size of Canada's just south of the border. The Kootenays lie on the 49th parallel; the U.S. is just a hike, or snowmobile ride, away. "It wasn't until the next generation, when the kids started growing indoors and taking it across the border, that the industry blew up," De Maria says. By the early 1990s, logging had all but ground to a halt and official unemployment rates were high in the region. Signs of recession, however, were hard to find.
http://thetyee.ca/News/2013/12/16/BC-Pot-Farmer/
Pot country
Since the early 1970s, the remote west Kootenay region of the Purcell Mountains near the B.C.-Alberta border has been a prime location for marijuana cultivation. A vast network of inactive logging roads provided easy access to south-facing clear-cuts where mineral rich soil was irrigated by glacial spring run-off -- perfect conditions for bud-heavy weed plants. It didn't hurt that there was little to no police presence between many of the unincorporated lakeside towns, places with names like Argenta, Rosebery and Glade. And all through the region, there was an unceasing demand for high quality bud.
The Kootenay region has long been a place where smoking pot is part of everyday life. Joe De Maria*, a resident of the Slocan Valley, was part of the original wave of young, idealistic people who converged in the Kootenays in the '70s. "The valley was idyllic," he says. "In the beginning, growing marijuana was just part of the mentality. It wasn't until the '80s that a lot of friends and neighbours started to make good money from it."
At first, people grew their plants on the mountainsides around their homes. When they started getting high prices from Calgary and Vancouver, they began to poll together and export their crops. The growers shared their horticultural knowledge and their clones, cultivating stronger, more refined strains.
While they exported around the country, the growers also had a market ten times the size of Canada's just south of the border. The Kootenays lie on the 49th parallel; the U.S. is just a hike, or snowmobile ride, away. "It wasn't until the next generation, when the kids started growing indoors and taking it across the border, that the industry blew up," De Maria says. By the early 1990s, logging had all but ground to a halt and official unemployment rates were high in the region. Signs of recession, however, were hard to find.
doingdishes
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the black hash-gold seal stamped with "Freedom of Afghanistan" that was around so much back then. i can't find anything even close. i thought i had some the first time i had bubble hash. when i went to feather it and it stuck to my fingers, i was disppointed. it was still good stuff but not at all what i expected.
nsbudca
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I've noticed that most of the cheese strains I've seen don't have many hairs or are lightly colored hairs.
I've never heard of suicide cheese. Lineage?
doingdishes
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the first time i got high was at lunch. i even hallucinated! my math teacher turned into Igor from the Hilarious House of Frightenstein. i laughed...and laughed...then had to go to the office
The Hippy
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I don't really know, but I believe it was from England and is still there in some Gardens.
Gquebed
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Yes.... the gold seal i know very, very well.
Its a personal favourite. I can still get minute amounts of it...
What people dont know about that stuff is that it was used to buy stinger missles from the CIA, so the mujahadeen could shoot down Russian helicopters with, and the CIA dumped it on various organized crime outfits for cash....
The Hippy
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I've seen pics on a few site but they don't look the same. Mine is way uglier. Probably just the pheno i ended up with.
Not many hairs
Zig-Zag Blue
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i worked for a guy who had a contract with the B.C. government to harvest cones for reforestation all over B.C.. him and his sons would top the trees with a basket hanging under his helicopter and pile them on a landing .Worked for cash money, was a good gig. i don't know how many times he called in the fuzz on grow sites..the one time i seen the R.C.M.P they had the crop loaded up in dump trucks. this was in the mid to late 80's just outside Osoyoos,bc up in the mountains.
TheRealDman
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The Hippy
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No more sativa like and not super solid. Longer skinny leaves near the bud. Kinda a scrawny plant usually. Army weed...lol