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The answer is actually in the question. The questioner is accustomed to paying $10 for one gram. There was a time when the traditional "dime bag" was 1/10th
by hapless 16y ago
The answer is actually in the question. The questioner is accustomed to paying $10 for one gram. There was a time when the traditional "dime bag" was 1/10th ounce, or nearly three grams.
The $10 price point has "stuck," but the grocery shrink ray strikes all products. Remember when a $1 candy bar was twice today's size?
- scrrr 16y agoNo, in the text he says the $10 refer to 1 gramme.
- mortenjorck 16y agoIs cannabis routinely cut, as hard drugs are? I can't imagine it would be terribly hard to find similarly-burning vegetation to dilute the amount of product in a fixed-weight bag at a level undetectable to the average buyer.
- avar 16y agoNo, that's one of its advantages. It's pretty much impossible to "cut" it. This is what a cannabis bud looks like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macro_cannabis_bud.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macro_cannabis_bud.jpg You can't just throw some similarly looking vegetation in there without the buyer noticing. You could throw in low-grade hemp, but that's just as hard to grow, so it's of no benefit to the dealer. One thing you can do is to not dry it. The moisture will add a bit of weight, but probably not more than 5-10% more, depending.
- sophacles 16y agoThis is sort of built into the quality scaling tho. Properly dried (not too dry, not too wet) fetches a higher price than what the difference in weight for lower quality offers.
- Alex3917 16y agoYou can use fertilizer and pesticides to artificially increase your yields, which is basically just as bad depending on what's being used.
- code_duck 16y agoSure, that works out about the same as 95% percent of the produce sold and used at restaurants in the US, though.
- Someone 16y ago"You could throw in low-grade hemp, but that's just as hard to grow, so it's of no benefit to the dealer." I am not sure about that. Shouldn't low-grade hemp be cheaper in areas where it can be grown legally? After all, the risk of losing a harvest to law enforcement is lower.
- muhfuhkuh 16y agoI've read that, in the UK, unscrupulous dealers have been spraying their dried bud with sugared water to add weight. They've also been selling something FAR more dangerous called "grit weed", which has been impregnated with glass dust or microbeads that resemble Cannabis terpines or "crystals" and also add considerable weight, but is basically fiberglass when inhaled.
- jason 16y agoI have heard of people using hairspray to weigh it down. Turning shwag to the sticky icky.. at least enough to fool high school kids.
- code_duck 16y agoThose bastards gave me 75 proof bourbon, said it was 95!!
- michaelhalligan 16y agoI remember when a candy bar was 1/2 today's size. Everywhere you go it's "supersized this" and "supersized that". Even snickers bars are 2" longer, 1/2" thicker, and 1/2" wider than they used to be.
- eli 16y agoI think you are mistaken. Perhaps you're thinking of the "king size" version which costs more? http://www.candyblog.net/blog/item/rising_cost_of_candy/ http://www.candyblog.net/blog/item/rising_cost_of_candy/
- michaelhalligan 16y agoPerhaps, I haven't purchased one since I stopped doing packaged foods, but I no longer notice the standard sized candy bars, the liquor store counters and grocery store check-out aisles seem to be filled only with the "king size" versions.
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- enjo 16y agoI actually noticed the opposite. A few days ago I had a craving for a snickers bar. I haven't had one in years. So I popped into my local 7-11 and I noticed that the candy bars all looked...smaller... than when I was a kid. There was no king size to be found. Anecdotal? Sure, but it does support what the poster was claiming.
- michaelhalligan 16y agoYour point of reference has changed. My father was the biggest man in the world when I was 5 years old, now I feel like I could hollow out a leg and hide him in it.
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- michael_dorfman 16y agoYour age is showing. There was a time when a dime bag was 1/4th of an ounce. And I'm sure somebody even older than me is going to chime in with a recollection of an even more outrageous price.
- nhebb 16y agoWhen I was a kid in the mid-70's a "lid" cost $25. A lid was a pound of weed. Both the quality and cost shot up in the next decade. Disclaimer: I don't smoke pot, so this is second hand smoke, so to speak. But, there were so many hippies around where I grew up that I literally thought patchouli was what people smelled like when then hadn't bathed in a week.
- omarchowdhury 16y agoI'm pretty sure a lid was an ounce. A pound for $25 is too low, during the 70s. That's enough for a High schooler to smoke 1 1-gram joint everyday for 2 school calendar years on just a couple of days worth of lunch money.
- eof 16y agoA lid is an ounce. My favorite pot-quantity terms are "slice" and "elbow". A slice being an 1/8th of an ounce (as in a slice of pizza) An elbow being a pound (as in 1 lb)
- dedward 16y ago$25 was a couple days worth of lunch money in the 70s?
- evgen 16y agoWell, after you get through the two or three joints necessary to work through this stash before it goes stale the munchies hit real hard :)
- Ennis 16y agoYou are completely right hapless. A good comparison is a dime bag to a candy bar. What adds confusion is that a dime bag is generally thought of to contain 1 gram these days. But this is not a candy bar and is not marked by weight. You won't find a "gram for a dime" bag that actually contains a gram. Hence why dealers are called choppers. They have to know how much to chop and still make money. Illegal or not, it can still be a slim margin business so these are accepted business practices by both vendors and customers.