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in 1970 to about '73, you could stand on the corner of Peachtree Street and 14th Street to 10th St , the hippie district, and smoke a j in front of the pigs.
You could also openly deal, we were harmless and the cops thought "who cares what they do to each other". We were all freaks, we were all bors and sisters, no matter if you was gay, black, mexican, whatever. Everyone was accepted. ANGER and HATE and Prejudice was NOT COOL.
Around 73 or 74, the bikers came for the chicks and drugs and money, the militant blacks came for the same plus to recruit and organize, , and with them came coke and heroin , and the "good ole days" of dealing on the streets and smoking at free concerts in the park without hassle were over.
We bought nichol bags for $5.00, about a matchbox full, and paid $12 to $15 for a lid, three fingers in a baggie, about 3/4 oz, the name LID came from the Prince Albert Tobacco Can size. Almost always what was called DIRT MEXICAN , full of seed, tasted like dirt, compacted, bricked, big stems, not manicured, half buds, half leaves, males mixed in too. We seldom got quality GOLD BUD, RED BUD, or MICHMICAN OR jAMACIAN. Columbian did not come around until around 1976. You could not give HOME GROWN away for free then. No one wanted it.
ACID was $5, Peoyte $5, Psysibin, (SillySibun) was $5. Hash was $5 a gram. We did drugs but we did not do dope (Coke, Heroin, Meth-Speed, Pills) A lot of heads would not speak to you if you did dope, but we all did drugs. LOL Everything from food, drugs to women was shared by all.
Those were the days!
Last edited by Roseman; 04-21-2007 at 01:48 PM..
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