I'm 65, started smoking / growing in 1970 (indoors and out) here in Ky and the only true one hit pot I ever smoked in my life was a joint of Columbian Black that my girlfriend of that time (1975) brought back from Chicago and that joint lasted me 3 days, plus I shared it with a couple of my friends, it was super spicy and smooth, but would make you cough your head off from lung expansion. The Burmese strain that we grew here in the mid 80's was as good if not better than any Indica I've smoked to date, not one hit but it took 4 people to finish a joint and then you were plastered for 3 to 4 hours, I ran it for about 5 years until my first divorce, wish I still had it. I was there, I was and still am a daily smoker and my first experience with any kind of drug was a 4 way hit of BOEL Orange Sunshine 2 weeks from production out of Berkley Cali, a buddy brought back 2,000 hits, so I started high and worked down, wasn't impressed with pot until I was lit up on some real Acapulco Gold which left me standing and staring accross a field for 30 min before I said anything to the guy next to me and all that was said was, it's nice isn't it. After that I became a weed smoker and sold / moved quite a bit in the early days, so I saw lots of swag Mexican with an occasional brick load that would come in with no name but was trippy fire. I also grew Mushrooms for 10 years so I know an intense high is. Now was most of the commercial weed shit, yes compared to modern commercial, was the top shelve as good as today, hell yes, those hybrids are still what everybody is working with today. Also we all smoked bowls and bongs back then too, we had head shops here in Lexington full of pipes and bongs in the early 70's. 5 years ago I was busted for cultivation and couldn't smoke for 2 years, first time I smoked after that I hit some bong dabs and a couple flower bowls and I wasn't sure if I wanted to ever smoke again, it was that intense, but not a fun high, not visual, like I was going through a K hole, no euphoria what so ever, that's the difference and what most of us old-timers miss, the euphoric and trippy high that had you giggling all night, you know the Far Out Man syndrome. I IMHO feel that has been lost due to the race for the highest THC strains, there's more to good cannabis than just THC. Why do you think that all the best breeders world wide are breeding these old landraces and heirlooms back into the modern crosses, they know something! Durban Poison is just one example, it's an old landrace that still to this day is popular and holds it's own with the modern strains, couldn't have your Girl Scout cookies without it. Is the weed across the board more potent than yesteryears, yep, is it more potent or better than the elite strains of the past, no, maybe that's why they're still used today to make what you're smoking. If you weren't there you don't know and if you weren't in an area where it was heavy, then you missed it too. I was lucky to live in a state that was one of the big producers back in the day, plus Lexington is a crossroads town where I75 and I64 meet, anything going North / South and East / West comes through here. I love it here, but I think Colorado will grow on me, no pun intended.
Best to All,
Baq
