Who remembers having to clean their bag of 80's weed?

I smoked tons of brickweed back in the day. Spent jr high and highschool in houston (circa 90). We could get "dro" but mexican was 40 an oz so we smoked that 90% of the time. Sometimes it was good, sometimes bad. Lots of crazy shit came in through the houston ship channel. Got some blue mexican stuff one time. It was all lightly seeded buds that were probably an 3.5 grams to around an oz for the biggest ones. It was baled but not terribly compressed. Stuff was total time warp weed. Smoked a big joint and for like 2 hours I was freaking out because seconds passed like hours. Some of the brick stuff wouldn't have been too bad but but it was cured and packaged horribly. You kids today don't know how good you have it these days with your kind bud and vape pens and store bought gummy candy. When I was a kid I had to walk 4 miles in the snow to buy brickweed from a guy driving an rx-7, wearing a members only jacket, in a k-mart parking lot! I think all noobs should have to smoke brick weed for a month and grow one crop using rockwool in an ebb and flow system before they get their stoner card.
 
Oh yeah and if you're all wondering why brick weed stopped coming after 2000...it was 9/11. The cops cracked down in tx bad right after9/11. They had 2 car teams working interstate. One was a pickup with a dog box on the back the other a regular cop car. The dog truck had fans to suck in outside air to blow through the dog box. when the dog barked the cop would radio the car down the and tell the which car they thought was hauling a load. It didn't work every time but between that and having the boarder locked down it slowed down mexican imports drastically.
 
When I first started smoking my dad and a few of his friends were growing, so I could grab handfuls of fairly decent buds by today's standards without him noticing. I was like a god amongst stoner teens. I smoked up everyone until they tapped and hand out buds like it was candy. This went on for about half of a year, and then I got caught with a bag at school. This caused my mom to make my dad shutdown the operation and lock up his stash.

So then I was reduced to buying it on the street like everyone else my age. I remember forking over 30 bucks to a kid, and then staring in horror at the tiny amount of dark brown ammonia smelling seedy brick morsels in the bag. It was at that moment when I realized that I had fucked up big time.
 
15 years ago or so I was cleaning up my attic and decided to sort through a box of vinyl records. Pulled out Traffic Live in Europe double album. Open it up and there's a big pile of decayed weed. Didn't register at first then it was like being in a time machine back to 1977. Remembered I was cleaning seeds in my parents den. Spilled the album all over the shag carpet so we got a vacuum out and put pantyhose over the end to get the weed out of the carpet. It wasn't great weed to begin with and now filled with dog hair and carpet fibers and apparently we never got around to finish it. 'Memories. We will enjoy them.'
 
What is really weird is when you grow a classic..I love vietnamese silver leaf....

No seeds anymore and the shit is a solid a hammer of fury...because I grew it under optimal conditions...for a 14 to 15 week flower.

MexiBrick...no thanks.
 
Part of what made weed back in the day sometimes so great even if it was brick was that it was widely variable and occasionally incredible. I distinctly recall one bag that had eight inch long buds that were flat and seeded but resulted in soaring “lets play hacky sack” type high. And yes laughter lots of laughter almost like being on a wild trip. Yes we were younger but the smoking experience was almost always social, and no phones so we were all completely present in the circle. I wonder if looking at screens has kind of changed the experience
 
Chapl said:
Part of what made weed back in the day sometimes so great even if it was brick was that it was widely variable and occasionally incredible. I distinctly recall one bag that had eight inch long buds that were flat and seeded but resulted in soaring “lets play hacky sack” type high. And yes laughter lots of laughter almost like being on a wild trip. Yes we were younger but the smoking experience was almost always social, and no phones so we were all completely present in the circle. I wonder if looking at screens has kind of changed the experience
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“Meet you at Tom Thumb at seven”.
 
When you guys talk about cleaning seeds with business cards is there some rake type technique to it or were you just using the card to move seeds around??

Seems like somebody must’ve figured out how to tilt the tray and tap it until all the seeds rolled down or something.


I’m asking because I’ve got an Asian landrace in the home stretch that I pollinated pretty heavily.
 
A.k.a said:
When you guys talk about cleaning seeds with business cards is there some rake type technique to it or were you just using the card to move seeds around??

Seems like somebody must’ve figured out how to tilt the tray and tap it until all the seeds rolled down or something.


I’m asking because I’ve got an Asian landrace in the home stretch that I pollinated pretty heavily.
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Tilt the tray. Break up the buds. Scrape from bottom to top of tray then gently shake. The seeds should roll down to the bottom of the tray and the herb should remain at the top. Just like riding a bicycle.
 
Never had a bag of 80s weed. Y’all old.

Just giving y’all shit. Closest I probably came though is the oz of mexi brick I got in Killeen the day I got of the army. It was actually decent kinda peppery, not musty or old smelling, got me high af for like 2 weeks, not bad for $40.

Now I’ll smoke a 1/4 of fire that can fetch $60-70 in a day :/
 
voodoosdaddy said:
Oh yeah and if you're all wondering why brick weed stopped coming after 2000...it was 9/11. The cops cracked down in tx bad right after9/11. They had 2 car teams working interstate. One was a pickup with a dog box on the back the other a regular cop car. The dog truck had fans to suck in outside air to blow through the dog box. when the dog barked the cop would radio the car down the and tell the which car they thought was hauling a load. It didn't work every time but between that and having the boarder locked down it slowed down mexican imports drastically.
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Yeh so what they were doing was bringing it in through Canada, by boat in to NY... Even though 9/11 happened. The indians up here have a reservation that straddles between Canada and NY. They picked up the slack.
 
Lenin1917 said:
Never had a bag of 80s weed. Y’all old.

Just giving y’all shit. Closest I probably came though is the oz of mexi brick I got in Killeen the day I got of the army. It was actually decent kinda peppery, not musty or old smelling, got me high af for like 2 weeks, not bad for $40.

Now I’ll smoke a 1/4 of fire that can fetch $60-70 in a day :/
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SOME DAY.... Maybe I will breed the Mexican back out of my Afghan x Mexi.....
 
sunny747 said:
Now that I think about it.. I'd like to do a strain hunter expedition and find real, unbastardized 80's weed genetics.. I imagine that the northern parts of mex have a lot of the hybridized genetics we have in the USA, but I'm sure that in small towns there must be abandoned fields of what I'd call "Dad weed"... That's more my speed..
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Pure Cannabis Sativa Landrace

See attached Grow from Land of Mahatma Gandhi In the world of hybrids, here is some original shit. Comments?
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I hunted this
 
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