Been going back and reading more of this thread and thought I would clear a few things up with some of the topics that has came up.
1st,
did Hells Angels grow weed?
I'm sure there were members growing seed from the weed they were transporting all over the continent. lol
Their role in all this was going around and dispensing and collecting weed grown on real farms by real "farmers" all across the country, mostly rural areas and around small towns.
Hell, about every rural county had their own personal weed varieties starting in the 60's and 70's. 20 years of growing the same weed, in the same area which was mostly Asian and South American strains etc.
Depended on what origin of shipment or personal collections is what the farmers were growing. (Family Heirlooms)
Then about 1978, the Afghani weed showed up. That one action changed the world of cannabis forever.
Farmers began figuring out to separate the males from the females to get a better quality plant and high.
Just imagine how many seeds were around before the Seedless flowers? Everyone was sitting on burlap sacks of tropical sativa seeds. They grew fine in Fla but not in short growing seasons unless you bred them for 10 or 12 years. Be nice to have those heirlooms today. That is 1/2 of the Skunks ancestry right there.
Pre-Skunk days where I lived people grew Columbian Gold and Red Bud, Acapulco Gold and Jamaican.
It was a big "free for all"(20ft plants in the woods and 100-1000 plants grown in farmers "corn fields" until about 1980(Just Say No)
began affecting areas.
Busts began happening more and more frequently, plus you had corrupt sheriffs and politicians involved.
Sheriff in our county had to bust his own "shine" operation and a 4 acre weed patch he was overseeing. lol
Anyways,
Yes, the Hells Angels did play a big role in dispersing the different and important genetics across this country.
Now, about the same time, Pablo Escabar was controlling the drug shipments coming into the Gulf Of Mexico. If you had the connections, you could get very good Columbian Gold that would knock your socks off and the tastes, was unique for the times. The terps were different and in different ratios than they are today.
I was there and experienced the "Real Skunk" era.
Not Cat Piss, or RKS, or Trainwreck or whatever people want to call it today.
It's a lesser version of those few years when the first "Real Skunks"(Afghani hybrids) landed in our backyards.
There's nothing I have purchased in the last 15 years that compares to the seed I bought back in 2001.
In 1998, A buddy I worked with from Ravenswood WV, gave me a small bag of flower and I grew the few seed out I found in it.
It was like I stepped back to 1984 all over.
You got near the plant in flower and it would make you sick at your stomach to get a big snoot full of the flower.
The plant was unique, it had "hairy" stems, even the leaves had a layer of what looked like felt. The trait still comes out in ours every now and then. We have lost a lot of what these plants had at one time that's lacking in today's genetics. I bred the males and females together and then began purchasing seeds and a 600 watt HPS light the winter after 9/11 happened.
It set me on the Skunk breeding path I've been on leading up to the seed I have today.
I've noticed, you breed one time out of the lineage and you lose a big chunk of it's ancestry.
I try and keep my seed away from the newer genetics. That's one of the reasons no one has this shit because first thing they do is wanna breed it to some Instagram famous "elite" name and pssst...the piss is gone.
These plants smell crazy! It's in the genetics, it's not something created by mold in a bag. lol
Anyone that had the opportunity to smoke the real skunk almost 50 years ago knows exactly what I'm talking about.