Im guessing its still around... About 15 years ago when I was a teenager, fancy strains were not common talk - there was "green bud" and there was "mex" (or "brown"). Considerable price difference and quality.

Im sure people know what Im talking about.. darkgreen to brown colored, smuggled in and sold in highly compressed bricks. By the time it got to you in a bag it looked nothing like "bud". Stems and seeds galore. Get a headache if you smoke too much

What strain was this most this stuff?

mexican!!!! brickweed....sometimes you'd get some stellar sativa seeds though...you grow them out, and find out that letting them go to seed, then sun drying and bricking up in bales, then shipping them to america concealed in a gasoline truck is not the best way to grow and cure!!!!

So its pure sativa?

mostly sativa...the best is oaxacan, and acapulco gold...they say the gold is gone, but gimme' the $$$ and I'll go get you the seeds personally! it's still there. there's some yucatecan/trainwreck on bidzbay that looks good...it's amazing though- how such good weed can so easily be turned into complete dog shit! I saw the same thing in thailand...no thai weed(they're nazis!)-just some really shitty burmese brick weed; every bit as crappy as the mexican schwag! and this is the same burmese landrace that will take you head clean-OFF! thailand was a REAL disappointment! go to cambodia....

Mexico is a big place, lots of strains and formerly lots of landrace varieties. NL, Sour Diesel, skunk for example all have Mex in their gene pool.

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most mex is named for the locale (where it comes from). ie, oaxacan is from oaxaca mexico, acapulco is from acapulco, etc.

Mex in the 80's was mostly mishandled Sativas. There were always plenty of seeds to be had out of a bag. The ones I grew out were always turned out to be good, even if the stuff they came from sucked. No idea how it was shipped, but I can remember always feeling sorry for it. Local was the only way to go for quality and Mex was was you got when there was no local to be had. Stopped smoking for a better part of the 90's and once 215 passed never looked for anything imported. Wonder if the stuff still comes here like that...

last time I was down there('02) they were growing some skunk obviously given to them by some gringo or euro. that was in oaxaca...so I don't know how long before pure landrace strains are erased in mexico. I think we need an international repository like svelbard, only maybe not in the arctic! every country should have at least 3 different local strains represented.