in 1974 i smoked my first. giant yellow flavored papers, and rolled a "fatty" - well tried... it was a dime bag - $10 and 4 fingers in knoxville tn. that is how they measured back then. everything was "mexican skunk".
went to texas the next year, el paso! weed came from mexico. i could get a kilo from a "friend" for $120. it was always a brick, and although i never found a cat or a finger, i found lots of other things in the brick. mostly you just got over it! lol
then i was working for a contractor and found someone on this side of the border who actually was a farmer. the stuff he grew was by far the best and the best looking i have ever seen. it was all hush hush but he grew for "science" on white sands. he grew sinsemilla, it was new and all the rage! it was a distinct orange and the first oz i bought was one bud in a gym bag, lol. that was around 1979 or 1980.
stayed in el paso till the wall came down in 1989 - and i went to europe, spent a lot of time in Amsterdam and found that there were tons of different strains of weed around that didnt start with "mexican" and didnt come in a brick. the popular one then was lemon lemon (pronounced lee-mon lee-moan)
seedless sinsemilla was all over the place by then and weed there was killer! but, it may have been the time and place. back then we walked the streets of amsterdam all night and no troubles at all. we even had our kids (girls -16 and 10) there and never had to worry about violence or anything. they could use the euro pass and go from country to country by themselves... no google no cell phone (although i had military como)
then the world went with peeing in a cup and since i was a government contractor, working around the world on military bases, i just stopped weed. oddly enough, i have to date never been asked to take any drug test. but since i was a boss i felt i shouldnt do things i had to fire people over. i did, however, leave the list on my desk as soon as i got it... signed a lot of leave requests.
then here... you could get some ok weed, some good stuff occasionally, but at a sky high price and through too many hands. they want 20 a gram, even when you want an oz (might get $15 a gram stuff if you do a lot of business.) then i found an ok source, decent but $250 an oz, and not a great oz.
i use to get 1 oz a month at payday. i use to try to make it last, but not successfully, i got it i smoked it up!
then, i found this site, and some seeds and now, its soooo different. i had never thought to grow it, but i am farm stock, and figured, wth.
i have never sold weed, never wanted to. i share a lot and smoke my brains out and the quality is great and the price is good, well, mostly not bad! the first oz was thousands... but the next was much cheaper, lol
i once sat down and tried to figure how much i smoke a month, but i havent a clue. i tried every smoking method too, but now i smear some qwiso on it, roll it up and smoke.
long winded, but the history of the weed is really fascinating. if the south hadnt taken the stand of cotton or nothing, both indigo and hemph would be all over. we started the war on weed. just to control it in relation to cotton. - ok, i admit i have simplified it all, but that is what happened if you take all the "fried" brain stuff out.
and ill end with a question, in legal states do doctors (real docs not the clinic card guys) use pot in their tool chest of remedies soothing? my x-doctor still talks like it will kill you if you look at it and it will kill everyone i know if i actually smoke it. i had to ask for proof it caused anything, and especially cancer (which is what he said i would pass to my family). nothing, so i found a new doc and havent told them yet...
i had to tell the anesthesiologist because it takes more to put you under if you smoke, nothing bad, they just need to know to adjust the flow.
