Im pretty sure weed has gotten stronger, i have this poster (from a hightimes i think) with pictures of bud from 1970's 80's 90's etc.. and its fucking hilarious how rank the early shit is lol, like the mexican n shit just looks terrible nd then they got the white rhino n shit up around 2000.. it just cant be the same xD the bud looks terrrible!!
Im sure there was good shit grown back then but the way they produce "stronger" strains nowadays is (i think) by finding the "perfect" mothers (which can take several years) and using those to produce seeds or to cross etc... Im assuming there wernt these worldwide seed banks trading clones / seeds back then... Science is amazing; 20 years ago if I'd told you we would be eating seedless watermelon you would probly laugh. Thats just my thoughts.

The problem with the argument is that the detractors apply that statement to all cannabis and it simply is not true. Schwag is schwag. It has always been schwag and always will be.

I'm pretty sure they were growing good shit in Jamaica 100 years ago. Shit that would blow your mind today as it did then.

Growing methods and strains have improved without question. But to apply those innovations to all cannabis is ludicrous.

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Two words. Panama Red. It was so good they even made a song about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84wjPhkO5V0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUts9kbr9Eg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgrahBthnW8

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I'm hoping that Panama Red is what I've got some clones of. Got them a couple days ago from an old hippie who's been growing for 40 years. The difference between some of the old strains and the new strains is we get a lot more females now. Back in the old days is was a lot of stem and seeds and male mixed with female.

anybody got pics of what the old weed looked like, I'm guessing it looked like mex swagg,

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No pics, but I can tell you that it WAS like schwag. Stems, seeds, green leaves, brown leaves, unmanicured ... it looked like shit, but it was the shits.

Vi

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Vi, did you ever get the real Thai sticks, the ones with buds wrapped around a bamboo stick with some jungle twine. Those things rocked, but Panama Red and Cambodian Red were my favorites. Mexican was of course, Acapulco gold, Zacatecas, and Oaxacan. The oaxacan was the kind that you'd light up a joint and the smoke would just explode from the end of the thing, awesome., I did smoke some schwag in lean times but since I was close to the importers, I rarely had to. BTW that Columbian gold that first came in was great, but they commercialized it towards the end and as dank said, more money in coke.

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