If you were a pothead in the '70s...

ltecato

ltecato

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I recall I bought a Power Hitter c. 1977, mainly hoping that it would cut down the amount of smoke wafting through the air and drawing unwanted attention, but also it seemed to make the low-quality weed in San Antonio somewhat more potent. And then about a week later I returned to the head shop and bought an inhaler mask to go with the plastic squeeze bottle, which made it even more kick-ass. Like a bunch of idiots my friends and I would cruise around in my dad's Datsun hitting on it and freaking out every other driver on the road. And we never got pulled over. Amazing.

This link is for visual information only, not trying to advertise the product, but if Oat Willie's still makes them maybe I'll consider buying one just for the hell of it.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/power-hitter-oat-willies-1977-austin-480212930
 
lokie

lokie

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ltecato said:
I recall I bought a Power Hitter c. 1977, mainly hoping that it would cut down the amount of smoke wafting through the air and drawing unwanted attention, but also it seemed to make the low-quality weed in San Antonio somewhat more potent. And then about a week later I returned to the head shop and bought an inhaler mask to go with the plastic squeeze bottle, which made it even more kick-ass. Like a bunch of idiots my friends and I would cruise around in my dad's Datsun hitting on it and freaking out every other driver on the road. And we never got pulled over. Amazing.

This link is for visual information only, not trying to advertise the product, but if Oat Willie's still makes them maybe I'll consider buying one just for the hell of it.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/power-hitter-oat-willies-1977-austin-480212930
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Those things were popular at the time. I never used one. Too cheap to buy one and never knew anyone that did.
But the smoke shop must have sold a lot of them because they had the shelves stocked with plenty of them.

I've also heard of using a tampon wrapper to roll joints with. I have not, but hey, if it works I'm all for it.:eyesmoke:
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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lokie said:
Those things were popular at the time. I never used one. Too cheap to buy one and never knew anyone that did.
But the smoke shop must have sold a lot of them because they had the shelves stocked with plenty of them.

I've also heard of using a tampon wrapper to roll joints with. I have not, but hey, if it works I'm all for it.:eyesmoke:
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Just imagine if some enterprising firm printed tampon wrappers with images of US currency. A joint rolled therewith would be the trifecta.

 
ltecato

ltecato

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lokie said:
Those things were popular at the time. I never used one. Too cheap to buy one and never knew anyone that did.
But the smoke shop must have sold a lot of them because they had the shelves stocked with plenty of them.

I've also heard of using a tampon wrapper to roll joints with. I have not, but hey, if it works I'm all for it.:eyesmoke:
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I had just gotten my first "real" job delivering pizzas so I felt like I was Thurston Howell III with all this money burning holes in my pockets.

I was and still am totally incompetent at rolling joints. Always had to use a machine or sometimes I could roll a halfway decent one using a crisp $10 or $20 bill.
 
too larry

too larry

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I had a friend who bought a power hitter. I made a few out of mustard bottles. You just had to use caution and not burn them down to the plastic.

Also had a gasmask rigged up for smoking. We called it the grassmask.

Another thing we did was put mugs in the freezer, then blew shotguns down into it. The cold would hold the smoke in the mug. We called them milkshakes because that is what the smoke looked like.
 
ltecato

ltecato

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too larry said:
I had a friend who bought a power hitter. I made a few out of mustard bottles. You just had to use caution and not burn them down to the plastic.

Also had a gasmask rigged up for smoking. We called it the grassmask.

Another thing we did was put mugs in the freezer, then blew shotguns down into it. The cold would hold the smoke in the mug. We called them milkshakes because that is what the smoke looked like.
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Yeah, I remember a friend showed me how to do that with a glass beer pitcher. You'd run enough water into it to moisten the sides and then put it in the freezer for a couple minutes to frost it. Good times!
 
Skeet Kuhn Dough

Skeet Kuhn Dough

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ltecato said:
Also recall "chamber pipes," where you would put unsmoked cannabis inside a chamber in the stem of a pipe, then smoke your regular weed so that the smoke would flow through the chamber and leave a residue on the stuff in there. That was supposed to add potency.
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Haha, I wasn't alive in the 1970s but I definitely remember this from the 1990s. Like others, I've smoked resin when hard up... so this wasn't so bad. I put some in the chamber but it wasn't long before I had to take it back out because I was broke at that age and it was the only bud I had.

Lol. Good memories.
 
ltecato

ltecato

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And you know, like, we used to have these things called "LPs" that were, like, vinyl discs on which music had been recorded, and sometime bands would, like, record "double albums" and that was bitchin' cuz you could use it to clean the seeds out of your dope.

You could also use a Frisbee or the lid of a shoe box. Gravity and Newtonian physics were our friends back then. Seeds roll better than crumbled buds. That's all you need to know. :blsmoke:
 
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