Yeah, they are our state flower and everywhere in my backyard. They get a bad rap for allergies, but it's the ragweed more than anything I think.
I cut my teeth on local grown, mostly skunk #1 in the mid to late 80s. Everybody called it Kentucky Thunderfuck, lol, and it was bright green, heavily sativa influenced, expandorama two-toke shit. One joint wound stone ten people it seemed. My buddy of 30+ years and I were just debating whether that old skunk was really all that, or if we had just smoked so much that we couldn't get high like that anymore. I've been so high on it that I threw up like I was whiskey drunk.
I do remember that after a few years of inbreeding, with no outside genetics brought in, the quality diminished to shit and eventually disappeared, along with the old breeders.