Ask An Old Hippie:
How Has Marijuana Changed Since The Sixties?
http://the420times.com/2011/07/ask-an-old-hippie-how-has-marijuana-changed-since-sixties/
Old Hippie
Jul 22, 2011
[Editor's Note: This week, we begin a new feature called "Ask An Old
Hippie", written by our residENT reefer writer and ganja geezer Old
Hippie, who first tried cannabis in 1967 and the rest is history.
Send your questions in to him at oldhip...@the420times.com]
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Nugs? Buds? Never heard of them.
All we ever saw was ground-up powdery stuff or crushed leaves (and
twigs, and seeds…often all mushed together in what's called "brick"
today). Sometimes we saw little pieces of crushed flower, and we were
amazed: it was actual proof that it came from an actual plant! Even
on the rare occasions when we got good stuff (all the legendary names
like Panama Red, Acapulco Gold, and Maui Wowie), it was pretty much
in either of those two forms. Of course, this was "back East" in NYC,
so mostly anything had to take quite a long trip before it got there.
Every once in awhile, some amazing stuff came by that was reputed to
be home-grown, but I'm sure any growing amateur today knows more than
virtually anyone did back then. In the 70s, Thai Stick hit the street
very rarely, and it was a wonder to behold: an actual stem with
dried, pressed, flattened buds on it!
Anyway, my point is that there was another legendary type called
"sinsemilla", meaning "without seeds", and none of us had even seen
it. Fast forward to me walking into a dispensary for the first time
last year…and the word is obsolete, because everything is sinsemilla
buds! Just imagine how I felt after all those years…I didn't even
recognize the stuff although all I had to do was smell it to know
it was "the right stuff".
Despite the anxious hand-wringing among many drug warrior types about
how "today's marijuana is so much stronger OMG isn't it terrible",
what we did back then was actually smoke a lot more of it to get the
desired effect. This was more dangerous for our health, since smoking
is the least healthy (as well as most wasteful) way of ingesting
cannabis. But we didn't know any different back then. Today, we have
vaporizers, capsules, and edibles of every type, so there's no reason
for patients to actually smoke except for nostalgia.
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Old Hippie is a MMJ patient living somewhere in the wilds of
California whose only link with the real world is a 420 MHz radio. He
blogs on BeyondChronic.com and vapes on Sour Diesel.
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oldhip...@the420times.com
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