i finally found a question I have wanted answered for a long time. This is copied and pasted from an old thread in 2009. “Looking through movies, TV shows, and other cultural artifacts from the 60s, it seems that very little--if any--attention was given to smoking cannabis in the form of buds, rather than leaves. The word "bud" rarely appears in hipster vocabulary from this period, an era when "lids" (or ounces) were rolled into joints and smoked in large amounts. Potheads would select hash or hash oil as their drug of choice for an especially intense high--one often described as "hallucinogenic" or "psychedelic." And the counter-cultural logo that became the globally recognized symbol for cannabis was the marijuana leaf, rather than a depiction of buds or flowers. (Granted, the symmetry of the leaf lends itself to symbol-making). Today, most marijuana users smoke bud exclusively, and have never even seen a marijuana leaf, apart from depictions in photos. Is it true, as the evidence (and my hazy memory) suggests, that the majority of marijuana smokers in the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s smoked primarily leaf, rather than bud? If so, when did the turning point occur? Is leaf ever consumed in lieu of bud today?”
I was born in 1947 and started using cannabis in the late 60s. Back in the late 60s/early 70s almost all cannabis was a mix of leaves, buds, stems and seeds- pretty much in that order. And yes, we smoked those leaves and yes, they got us high! It just took two fat joints! Stems were often used as "emergency stash" for the "summer drought" (when the new harvest wasn't in and the old was gone) or dumped into vodka to give it an interesting flavor and a touch of THC. Seeds were planted, eaten (by a few folks) or fed to birds. Seedless cannabis started showing up in the 70s along with Disco music. Do people use leaves today? Well, leaf smokes harsher and is weaker than buds, so smoking it has fallen out of favor. But there are uses for leaves. I mix leaf and bud bits, decarb it and grind it into "green flour" to add to baked goods. Some folks make extracts or oils with leaves. A few use the leaves to make tea (but don't expect much of a high- THC is not water soluble). And some are juicing raw leaves with interesting results- Some shocking results: A woman replaced 40 medications with raw cannabis juice… (news – 2013) Some shocking results: A woman replaced 40 medications with raw cannabis juice… 6 Reasons To Juice Rather Than Smoke Cannabis (news – 2014) 6 Reasons To Juice Rather Than Smoke Cannabis Or just eating them- Why Doris, 73, puts cannabis in her sandwiches (news – 2015) Why Doris, 73, puts cannabis in her sandwiches And then there are the occasional "more novel" ways to use cannabis leaves- How To Make Pot Chips Using the Leftover Leaves From Your Marijuana Harvest (news – 2017) How To Make Pot Chips Using the Leftover Leaves From Your Marijuana Harvest Hope that answers your questions. If you have more questions, you might want to take a look at my "Granny Storm Crow's List" which is filled with links like those above and a lot more. Just click this link - New July 2018 "Granny Storm Crow's List"- FREE! And welcome to GC, hon! Granny
Hash is a hallucinogenic really?? I smoke an Oz & a half if not more of hash a month & I don't have hallucinations lol, I think you would if you are enough in edibles though
Thank you so much for your reply! It all makes sense now. I smoked in the 70’s-then didn’t when I had kids. I have only recently been prescribed MM and thought to myself what happened! Where are the seeds and stems in my 4 finger lids!
Back in the 70's it was 4 finger lids, surprisingly pretty close to an ounce. Oaxaca was one of the old strains that was very trippy.
Nope! Weighed out ounces were unknown back in the 60s! You held your hand up to the baggie and saw if it was filled as wide as your 4 fingers! If you were lucky, your dealer filled a Prince Albert tobacco can to the lid with cannabis and that was an "ounce" (the cans were over an ounce). And that is where the term "lid" came from. Selling cannabis by the gram is a new thing, relatively speaking. It was all ounces and kilos back in the day! When I started toking, a "fat" ounce was $10. My first two kilos were just $65 each (but the dealer was a friend, so I got them for $5 above his cost. ) By the mid 70s, an ounce of fancy cannabis (Columbian, etc) might go for as much as $35. Granny
So Who remembers the $5 matchboxes that used to go around during that $10 & $12 'lid' period ? LOL Those were for the kind of people that couldn't afford a lid...Like the ones that buy grams today...Aw, the memories !
Me Neither,man... I don't miss any of those grunt-work jobs we used to do, But I sure could use some of that energy I had back then, LOL
Sure the weed wasn't as potent but we got just as high because tolerance wasn't such an issue. Like Granny said, we just had to smoke more. Premium weed was rare where I lived and relatively expensive. No one had ever heard of weighing pot to the gram, we didn't have the cheap digital scales we have now of course, we used a pocket scale that clipped onto the bag. They may still be around I don't know. I don't remember hallucinating on weed back then but I have since. Mild hallucinations.
Lol my father still has the first set he bought n hes passin em to me Sent from my SM-J727P using Tapatalk
I wasn't impressed with it very much...It tasted good , and gave a good buzz, but nothing to write home about... Of course, this was West Texas , and hash was not real plentiful then, for us...
I started smoking in the mid 70’s. I would get a brown paper bag 1/2 full of leaves, stems, a ton of seeds, and a few small buds for $15! It got me hella high!
And then YOU sold matchboxes out of that, to make your money back,right ? LOL That's how it was done, where I came from...
I didn't get hash very often but sure it was good, especially comparing it to the weed of the time. It's easier to make now with bubble bags, I had to screen it. I made my first hash oil in about 1969-70 and used methanol for the solvent. It looked like crude oil and was very popular while it lasted and it never lasted long.