If you were a pothead in the '70s...

Anyone remember the idiotic urban myth about burying low-quality dope in the ground for a month so that some kind of fungus could magically convert lousy weed into something with higher THC? I actually knew a dude who did this and he was definitely not the dumbest toker in my social circle. I never got to sample the stuff he buried, though.

Also recall "chamber pipes," where you would put unsmoked cannabis inside a chamber in the stem of a pipe, then smoke your regular weed so that the smoke would flow through the chamber and leave a residue on the stuff in there. That was supposed to add potency.

Also, putting wine instead of water inside a water pipe or bong was supposed to have some kind of de luxe benefit but I was too broke most of the time and if I had wine I would want to drink it instead of doing a Stoner Science Fair experiment with it.

We did the underground pot curing too back in the day. Makes me wonder why peeps freak out about a little mold on their buds when curing. Ours would look like fuzz balls and nobody ever got sick or died.

Tried that pot in the pipe stem thing once that a friend did. Gross! But then I smoked pipe scrapings a few times when hard up for a buzz too.

Southern Comfort for the ultimate bong water man! Drink that shit after a week of party toking and if it didn't make you barf you got a great buzz.

Very interesting never heard of any of this

New Age United said:

Very interesting never heard of any of this

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Take it from an old fart that did all that shit back in the day.

Do not try this at home!

OldMedUser said:

We did the underground pot curing too back in the day. Makes me wonder why peeps freak out about a little mold on their buds when curing. Ours would look like fuzz balls and nobody ever got sick or died.

Tried that pot in the pipe stem thing once that a friend did. Gross! But then I smoked pipe scrapings a few times when hard up for a buzz too.

Southern Comfort for the ultimate bong water man! Drink that shit after a week of party toking and if it didn't make you barf you got a great buzz.

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THC is not supposed to be soluble in water, but I had stoner friends who would save their stems from the cheap Mexican brickweed and make tea out of it every few weeks. I was at a party where they served it and I recall I got real wasted. And they had those fake velvet black light posters on their walls and turned on the black light and lava lamp. It was a trip, to be sure, dude.

haha memories, we did try most them things!
teas, moldy, buried haha

funny thing I remembered about smoking weed then was the mexican brick weed actually had a bit of dirt in it, you could pick out dirt clods if you got a bag big enough , I thought it was bizarre but it smoked stoney good and was like that for decades thru 70s80s (We only got the real dank budz around holidays or birthdays other wise daily smokage was what we called shwagg(Mex)

What will they come up with next.



I need to catch up with today's tech. I could see my young self whip one of these out at an all nighter.

which one of you will take one for the team and pour this in your next bong?

We took some of the stems from a kilo brick (with the pink paper around it) we broke down and thought we were going to make tea in a drip coffee maker. That tasted pretty much like bong water. By about 1974 not many people were doing brick weed in So Cal anymore, it was sensimillia, Columbian, Thai stick, and blond and black hash. Honey oil also.

Back in the 70's? I have a buddy right now who puts his pot in a Ziploc and lays it in the sun. He says it gives it a solar boost.

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Doesn’t everyone do that?

hillbill said:

Doesn’t everyone do that?

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Everyone south of the US border maybe lol.

I started smoking in 1968...Minneapolis. We didn't get brick weed. We got Panama Red, Columbian Gold and a Hashish we called Green Death...I once bought an ounce that was shaped like a shoe heel.

We did put wine in the bong...but nobody drank it.
JD

I bought one in 78..

I do miss Thai stick.

And good blonde hash.

dandyrandy said:

And good blonde hash.

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I was more of a fan of the black hash, the kind you could roll into a ball in your fingers. The blond always seemed too dry, still tasted good though.

Had some idiot grind up some aspirin and dump it into a bag thinking it made it stronger, you couldn't smoke it.

Marfil and Bambu papers and Jefferson Airplane roach clips made from a split book match.

Moby Grape and Savoy Brown.