Thai Sticks... Anyone make these anymore?

I had Thai sticks that were just Thai weed tied to a bamboo stick, too...but the "real" Thai sticks were, let's call them a Southeast Asian version of a "blunt" -where the weed played the role of the substrate for the real active ingredient -which was, in fact...opium. Weed was never a big deal in SE Asia -opium was almost the same as gold, though. So, rural people came up with the idea of Thai sticks to be able to more easily smoke opium....because opium smoking, traditionally, is much more involved. In fact, Thai sticks would have been considered a lowly, peasant way to smoke opium.

In all my days of smoking, I've never had an experience like the one I had the first time I smoked a real Thai stick.

Let's say "a friend" of mine was in the Peace Corps back in the 70's and was (mostly) in rural Thailand. He got a couple of pink, ceramic Siamese cat statues in Bangkok that were hollow and filled them with sticks he got from a farmer and then sealed them up and had them shipped back on a transport plane ahead of his own return. Things were different in those days! And then when he returned, he simply picked up his cargo and headed home. Took the cat statues, emptied them out...gave the statues to his mom and....tra-la-la-la (If you know whatI'm saying!)

 

No disrespect, but whatever you are talking about....it isn't describing Thai sticks....trust me. I am really someone who knows about Thai sticks. It was like a thing in my life for awhile...okay?

Sealing weed in airtight plastic bags and duct tape and then burying it under layers of dirt (specifically) won't do anything to the weed...other than possibly cure it.

All that you are describing is, essentially, the basic curing process (although a much more elaborate and unnecessary way...-in essence, putting freshly-dried weed in an airtight container in a cool, dark place. And you are also leaving out the "burping" step to avoid mold growth from contaminating the weed. What you are describing sounds risky if the weed is wet in the slightest. You could get the exact same effect by putting the weed in a Mason jar and putting it on a shelf out of the light, in your basement for three months -and burping it every so often....but none of that really pertains to making Thai sticks.

 

Trust me....What a stick was was related specifically to opium smoking. Loose weed was readily available and grew everywhere. Sticks identified "more than weed". They were easily traded, as they were mostly all the same size. It had nothing to do with hash oil, honey oil (lol!) or anything else. It was a rural form of an opium commodity.

 

They have an explanation of those on this site
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very cool topic.

 

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Yeah, man. The old Thai is gone, gone, gone.....unless some old vet has kept up a line for himself. The real sticks were opiated. The non-opiated ones were still a lot more potent than the Sativas we were all getting through Mexico and definitely had a taste that was unique. I have looked for those old tastes at various dispensaries advertising Thai strains....none of them have the taste I remember. I suspect a lot of places are just calling whatever strain they grow whatever they want to call it....who's going to check? lol! I've been around for so long and smoked so much weed, I can tell something from the old school in a second! I will say, though....I have tasted some new tastes over the last few years that are right up there with the best of the best....but that old Thai weed was delicious -often very leafy as I recall....but very resinous.

 

Though Thai sticks where weed soaked in oil and hash oil until all the oil seeps into the buds and coats it all with oil? Giving it Tha black hashes look, that what I read in a article on how to make Thai sticks on a high times magazine lol it takes like 3 month or so of soaking I believe

 

That's a relatively new marketing gimmick created in lieu of not being able to sell the real opiated sticks...Since they can't use opium they use hash oil...which, of course might produce a heavy THC-high, but wouldn't even come close to a real Thai stick in terms of effect...because it's not the same drug.

 

Not my pic. Google image search.

 

Those are not what I'm talking about at all. LOL!

 

I thought after they soaked them and stuff, they were wrapped up in leaves of some sort?

 

My dad used to get them.he grew up in socal in the 7os and 8os.he said that was the dankest shit that came around

 

You have no idea, friend....really.

 

I think you might be referring to Malawi Gold and how it was wrapped in banana leaves and then water-cured....?

 

Yes! Thats what I was thinking of.


People in a Thai stick thread shouldn't question a user with the name Tstick! Lolz