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The fine Colombian. When I was in high school back in 1975, we somehow got our hands on some real Colombian Gold. By far the best marijuana I've ever smoked (an
by drmpeg 5y ago
The fine Colombian. When I was in high school back in 1975, we somehow got our hands on some real Colombian Gold. By far the best marijuana I've ever smoked (and I live in California). If they can export that kind of strain to the US, it will disrupt the market.
- foobarzero 5y agoIt most certainly will not. Colombia may have had a competitive edge climate wise in the 70s when almost all cannabis cultivation was illicit and outdoors, but in modern times most legal recreational and medicinal cannabis is cultivated indoors in climate controlled environments. Not to mention the widespread breeding and sharing of genetics over the past five decades.
- varispeed 5y agoDepends how licenses are going to work and how corrupt government is. There is a space in the market for everyone, unless regulation makes certain ways unprofitable. What I am trying to say is that they'll find for sure customers willing to pay for premium outdoor growing organic 70s cannabis.
- watertom 5y agoUsing electricity power lights to grow plants should be illegal. Growing a recreational drug using lights is beyond criminal. We need to start charging for electricity based on type of usage.
- eplanit 5y agoI don't think I'll accept such extreme authoritarianism. It's quite a thing to want so much state control over peoples' lives.
- paxys 5y agoFYI electricity rates are the highest for residential use. If they started charging small-time home growers as commercial enterprises (on par with factories for example) they would pay way less.
- redisman 5y agoIt’s more that it’s hard to control pollination outdoors so a huge chunk of your crop will be worthless males
- trenning 5y agoThe absolute hubris of you shit posting on the internet using electricity but saying growing plants is wrong
- jareklupinski 5y agosounds good let's start by charging extra to post these kinds of comments :^)
- blooalien 5y ago> … "recreational drug" … Clearly you missed the news. Little seizure suffering kids are now not having seizures who were previously not being helped by pharmaceuticals (allowing normal lives where all they had to look forward to before was certain death). Cancer patients are finally getting some relief from the misery of chemotherapy. Many people are getting pain relief where nothing worked for them before. Just because it's used recreationally does not mean it has no medicinal value (despite it's Federal classification as such). You may want to educate yourself on the history of how (and why) it became illegal in the first place, and how much science progress and study has been actively suppressed or entirely prevented surrounding it.
- DonHopkins 5y agoWater is a recreational drug. It cure many ills, is used as a primary ingredient in many medications, and people go swimming and surfing and boating in it all the time. Using electricity power to pump water should be illegal. Pumping a recreational drug using electricity is beyond criminal. We need to start charging for electricity AND water based on type of usage.
- okareaman 5y agoI prefered Thai sticks. I should ask at the mary jane store if I could order some.
- drmpeg 5y agoBack around 1985 or so, there used to be a glut of loose Thai bud in the Bay Area. It was dense and dark brown (like chocolate). But the importers eventually got busted and that was the end of that.
- caymanjim 5y agoBranding like "Thai stick" was common in the 80s, and was pretty much always just marketing bullshit. The same thing applies now. "Kush" and other terms are all marketing gimmicks. The best weed available in the US in the 80s, regardless of how it was labeled or where it came from, was absolute garbage compared to what's grown now. THC concentrations are much higher, weed is grown in better conditions, by trained botanists, sealed up and delivered fresh. Anything people got in the 80s was weak and stale by comparison.
- basisword 5y agoCurious why a high THC concentration == good. Isn’t that like saying whiskey is better than beer because it has a higher alcohol percentage?
- DonHopkins 5y agoMore so with whisky than with beer, it's about the flavor, not how drunk it gets you. And for weed it's more like high concentration of aromatic terpenes == eye watering yummy flavor == health and emotional benefits == also tends to have gobs of THC. Different strains have different balances and varieties of terpenes and THC. I'd rather smoke "diet weed" with lots of terpenes but little THC, than "crack weed" with no terpenes and pure THC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terpene https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/what-are-terpenes https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/what-are-terpenes https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/what-is-marijuana-landrace-strain https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/what-is-marijuana-l... Pinene is my pungent favorite, which what makes Sour Diesel smell like a Royal Pine Air Freshener. https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/what-is-pinene-and-what-are-the-benefits-of-this-cannabis-terpene https://www.leafly.com/news/cannabis-101/what-is-pinene-and-... https://www.caliterpenes.com/en/cannabis-terpenes/sour-diesel-terpenes#/25-volumen-1_ml https://www.caliterpenes.com/en/cannabis-terpenes/sour-diese... https://www.littletrees.com/fragrances/royal-pine https://www.littletrees.com/fragrances/royal-pine
- stopnamingnuts 5y agoIndeed. If you told my hippie parents in the 1970s that it would take this long for weed to be decriminalized they would have promptly woven a macramé noose and hung themselves behind the outhouse at the commune.
- eplanit 5y agoA little bitter, are we?
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- draw_down 5y agoI dunno about all that. Everyone I’ve encountered who smoked weed back then complains about how the weed today is “too strong”.
- jdmoreira 5y ago"The Cuervo Gold, The fine Colombian, Make tonight a wonderful thing." - Steely Dan