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Penance
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Location: Texas
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 Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:53 am Post subject: explain!??!! |
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| ok, i've been a stoner for 10 years. but i have absolutely no clue what a "lid" is. i've heard it said many times especily on old cheech n chong stuff. but i've never been to a dealer and he offer me a lid or had any of my friends talk about a lid. so to the older tokers i beg of you, enlighten me. |
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FZRaven
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| A finger is a way of measuring weed, Like saying a 4 finger bag would mean if you hold 4 fingers up to the bag that's how much weed is in it. A lid I believe is most often talking about the lid of a mason jar. |
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socrateez
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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In the early eighties in L.A. I remember getting some of the last of the "finger bags"! Then it went to ounces and its fractions. Now, some people prefer the metric "grams". Lids were a little earlier.
I found this interesting:
a lid, a baggie, an ounce
"The term 'lid' of marijuana goes back to the 60's. Back then you could buy a 'lid' or a 'can' of pot. The can was aproximatley 1 oz, the lid was1/8 oz. The term came from the practice of breaking up a brick (a kilo or later a key) of tightly packed marjijuana and storing and selling it in Price Albert tobacco cans. A can held aproximatley one ounce. the lid would hold aproximatley1/8 oz. No one weighed it really, it was all done by eye. By the time I was in high school in the early 70's the term can had gone away and the term lid referred to an ounce. The term nickel or dime bag was still used in the 70s too. But by that time the amount of pot in the nickel ($5) or dime ($10) would vary - though the price was still $5 or $10. But if you bought a 'baggie', it would contain an ounce and the price would vary. In the 60's a bag was a bag was a can was an ounce and the price for the ounce was 5 or 10 depending on quality. I don't know if there were 7 dollar bags or 8 dollar bags." |
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dagobaker
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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so mids for 5 dollars and 10 for dank
now its about 200 for mids and 400 for dank give or take 50.......my how times change
was the week better or worse on average compared with now? |
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Penance
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Location: Texas
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 12:43 am Post subject: |
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i thought it was something along those lines. i would love a 4 finger bag right now, i have huge hands ^^
dago, you've inspired me to start another thread. to everyone else thanks to the insight, it's much appreciated. |
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von
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 9:41 am Post subject: |
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bought my first 4-finger lid in 1973. like they said a bag with 4 fingers high of pot $10. we measured pot by fingers back in the 70's.
peace & pot / lids  |
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Brute4291
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| Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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my mom says its a 4 finger bag sold for $10 back in the day about 20 years ago
I think it would be like a dime bag of today |
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shortyflow
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| I heard that the quality of cannabis then was not as potent as it was today. But I talk to the oldies and they say It would knock your sox off. I wonder what the exchange rate compared to to quality would be from the weed and prices then and the weed and prices now? |
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Fastlan3
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| shortyflow wrote: | | I heard that the quality of cannabis then was not as potent as it was today. But I talk to the oldies and they say It would knock your sox off. I wonder what the exchange rate compared to to quality would be from the weed and prices then and the weed and prices now? |
This topic is sticky...haha
This % thing is all wacky, due to the studies that were not quite legit back in the day and the process at which they now determine the % ( some are speaking of the bud, some about the whole plant), and then there's the fact that it can vary from plant to plant and how well it was grown. Oh and also old government studies claimed the % for marijuana was around 1% which I think they must have used a industrial hemp plant for that study, but nonetheless now government studies indicate the average plant now grown has around 4-6%.
Now, from what I read about percentages from website where you might buy cannabis seeds, they say anywhere from 8-20%+ depending on your botany skills...I am not a botanist, so I really have no clue.
I've also read that the way cannabis has been grown over the last few decades has decreased the possible peak potency. This claim deals with how certain stains have now been eradicated or lost, and that the cross breeding of the plants has had long term negative effect on the potency outcome; Why you may grow few strong plants, but the successor to those plants are doom to low potency.
Conclusion; as long as we can grow it, and smoke it, I'm happy. Although it is an interesting topic. |
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