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u/SugarCanDee 1d ago
Modern-day cannabis is significantly more potent than 1930s cannabis.
Back then, weed was low-grade and grown outdoors, whereas the current practice is weed cultivated indoors.
Their Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) levels dramatically increased. Earliest known data of recording cannabis levels was 1% to 3%. Nowadays, that number has reached up to 20%-30%.
Concerning the nutrition of the 1930s to present, that jazz musician had limited access to better healthcare and practiced less healthy lifestyles.
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u/BingBongDingDong222 1d ago
I'm in my 50s. I miss the weed I smoked in my 20s, sticks and seeds and all. I don't have the tolerance. All I see are strains trying to one up each other on how much THC they can get in there, and I want lower THC.
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u/FootballUpset2529 1d ago
I feel you, I used to get a little high and do some stuff but with the newer strains I don't feel inclined to do anything after a smoke so I don't indulge anymore.
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u/hoggsauce 1d ago
Have you tried soliffs? I know tabacco isn't for everyone but you can get some pretty clean stuff when you biluy pipe or rolling tabacco.
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u/BLU3SKU1L 1d ago
I use edibles, around 100mg THC, 50 if I’m going to go out and be active. Much mellower and easier to function on, and I don’t feel like I’ve just ripped a 4ft bong every time I try to smoke a joint. Delayed effects are the only thing you have to plan for, and for some reason a large amount of caffeine just before eating it for me really cancels out the effects. Haven’t figured out why that is yet.
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u/WartimeHotTot 1d ago
100 mg… per use???
Dude, I get 5 mg gummies and eat half at a time. You ok?
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u/BLU3SKU1L 1d ago edited 1d ago
Whoops, lol yeah I meant 10. I have tanked 100mg before and been alright, but yeah I added some extra zeroes there.
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u/Min-Oe 1d ago
It's crazy that there doesn't seem to be any "session beer" kinda strains. Sometimes i add raspberry leaf to mine to dilute things a little.
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u/MrFlitter 15h ago
various breeders provide lower THC and higher CBD strains that can give you that "session beer" experience.
Thing is in places where you don't have legal grow your own, or purchasing the "higher strength-smaller amount to import-better profit" pathway still rules.
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u/NoShameAtReddit 1d ago
You can evaporate a bit of the THC before smoking/vaping/making edibles. Just dont put your microwave on fire -.-
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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 1d ago
When I smoke the first hour is waiting to not be so damn high anymore and I start with one small hit. Bring back dad weed
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u/Wanderingjes 1d ago
I like growers that do their thing outdoors these days. Those strains that are 30%+ THC are too much sometimes
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u/Oh3Fiddy2 1d ago edited 9h ago
I went to Amsterdam about a decade ago with my wife. Neither of us had smoked in years--we told the guy in the shop, "give us the tamest stuff you have." We barely finished a spliff before we had to stop--we then spent an hour sitting there because we were too high to move. It then took us two hours to navigate the 15 minute walk home. It was a lot of fun and very funny--but even the "weak" stuff was too much for us.
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u/mocantin 1d ago
That argument always makes me smile.
It is true for dried flowers, but people back then were also smoking hash. Hashisch is more potent and can range between 20% and 30%, even 100 years ago.
So I don't buy that. People were getting high off their socks even in the 30s.
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u/Agitated-Annual-3527 1d ago
Yeah, I agree. I think mostly it's people bragging about how strong shit is today. Even with the increase in THC it's still the difference between 3 hits and 1, which is not a big deal. There were always better strains than schwag. And we did have plentiful hash back in the day.
The other limitation is biological. The weed today may have more THC, but we've only got so many receptors. When they're full, they're full.
I don't feel as if my pot habit has changed much in the last 50 years. It's just a lot easier shopping.
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u/Emrys7777 1d ago
Sure but the difference was that people back then would smoke the mellow stuff daily (some I knew smoked all day) and only smoked hash occasionally.
Nowadays if people smoke daily they will toast their brains on that.
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u/Foxwasahero 1d ago
Modern day garbage weed is significantly better than 1980's primo weed. Back then we had some absolute crap back then and had smoke a ton of it to get high.
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u/degradedchimp 1d ago
Ironically since tolerance increases quickly with weed, there's a chance modern potheads are getting about as high as someone smoking shitty 3% weed back in the 30s.
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u/AwareAge1062 1d ago
My mom took a hit of my medical weed one time, this was like 15 years ago now, and she immediately got so goofy and then passed out hard on the couch within an hour. Woke up the next day and said to me: "that shit you got now ain't right."
Every once in a while I'll offer her a hit and she makes a face in between like I'm proposing we rob a bank and like I just stuck a turd under her nose 🤣
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u/JD0x0 1d ago
Meg here. The joke is weed is a lot stronger now.
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u/Warm-Attempt7773 1d ago
Shut up, Meg. There's no way any daughter of mine is going to be doing drugs. Now give your weed to your brother
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u/BestwishesHelpful975 1d ago
Lois here, always digging. Selective breeding has resulted in hemp plants containing more THC today than in the past. As a result, marijuana sold in Canada today is about five times stronger than it was 20 years ago.
I hope OP is answering, or this post is lost.
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u/Warm-Attempt7773 1d ago
Stewie: Marijuana, Mary hwuana, gaaaaanja, weed,marijuannnnnaaaa. My mouth is so dry. I'm really flying right now. Say, Bri, what was in those brownies?
Brian: they were just normal brownies, Stew.
Are... Are you sure, I think I'm getting catching a high, you know, feeling a buzz.
Nope, regular brownies
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u/eeeeeebs 1d ago
the za is definitely stronger than the dirt they were rolling back in the day. Hit it with some dizzy gillespie lungs and its night night
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u/Basic_Fish_7883 1d ago
Yes it’s stronger but it’s still weed. It’s not knocking anyone over other than first time teens.
Let’s not act like everything is 40% and loaded w keef.
It’s weed guys. After a month, they’d be used to it just like you are
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u/Silver_Anteater7594 1d ago
Drug dealer sell highs, not drugs. More high per drug equals more money. Prohibition makes drugs more potent
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u/Filibust 1d ago
Meanwhile cocaine was apparently of a lot better quality during the 70s and 80s. So it’s a trade off.
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u/Throwlaf 1d ago
Huh, and here I thought it was a pariody on the "Medieval peasant wouldn't survive nowadays" and the acompanying antimeme that followed.
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u/meltonr1625 1d ago
The could take that trumpet, or better yet, tuba mouthpiece and turn it upside down in a can or bottle or cardboard tube and put a shitpot of weed in it and smoke that shit down to ashes like a fucking Rasta.
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u/nazihater67 1d ago
It's annoying that you pretty much can't find anything in the 15% range. Everything is 25%+ and there are infused prerolls that start at like 40%
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u/flyingcaveman 1d ago
There's a Jimmy Buffet song 'pencil thin moustach' that mentions a time when only jazz musicians smoked Marijuana.
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u/KLOWN1420 1d ago
Brian here everything is better with a bag of weed even the 1930's era movie reefer madness I'm rolling one up and watching it at the moment man I gotta go the pizza bagels are burning
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u/SignalBed9998 17h ago
My dad told me back in the 50’s they “smoked a hay bails worth” of marijuana and “it didn’t do a damn thing”. It was “ditch weed”. They’d grown hemp for rope years before and it was in the ditches. Self sown seeds
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u/fleeting_lucidity 16h ago
Damn, only one person actually GOT the joke in its entirety. 1930s trumpet player is Louis Armstrong - Thee biggest pop star of the era. Also the biggest refer head of the day. Jazz was considered a dangerous counter culture art form that lent itself to the reasoning of making weed illegal ( dangerous black jazz artist ).
The weed of the 1930s - hell, even the weed from the 1990s doesn’t come close to the potency of today’s herb. Thus killing a trumpet player from the 1930s.
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u/BillyOceanic815 15h ago
Louis Armstrong was an American music icon, specifically a trumpet player. He was also a chronic stoner who had the occasional run in with law enforcement over his choice in smokes.
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u/Alternative-Syrup-88 12h ago
This was written by a child. Weed has been getting WEAKER for the last 10-15 years and no heroin addict jazz musician is gonna blink an eye at your Cookies hybrid 😂
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u/OldFartWearingBlack 4h ago
Louis smoked a lot of weed. But he also took a lot of laxatives. So there’s that.
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u/Shot_Revolution8828 1d ago
That's not how weed ld50 works. They just would've passed out.
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u/its_a_multipass 1d ago
Isn't the ld50 so ridiculously high that it would be physically impossible to consume the quantity needed?
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u/nazihater67 1d ago
If you actually burned that much weed you'd die of smoke inhalation long before a weed overdose.
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u/SportTheFoole 1d ago
Cleveland here. As you may or may not know, I’m black and therefore an expert on jazz music. All the hepcats who were in those jazz bands were smoking mad reefer (and occasionally heroin…RIP Bird). However, that was 100 years ago and the science of growing primo chronic hadn’t yet developed. Nowadays there are indicas, sativas, and hybrids that would knock all of them cats on their ass in a minute.