What happened to Marijuana??

[doitb4ugo]

I am going to sound naive but many years ago I was a regular pot smoker....At that time, to date myself, we bought it in nickel or dime bags and occasionally in kilo's (large garbase bag).....the stuff was clearly ground up leaves, a few stems which always poked through your papaers when rolling, and a number of seeds.....

 

The marijuana of today seems to look totally different; like it is marijuana cruch ceral or something...it seems to come in clusters and is bound together....I have not indulged for years but was very surprised when I ran across some (a very different story)....

 

These pics illustrates my confusion....

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Do you have to grind this stuff up yourself....How does a plant of large flat leaves end up like this...Is it mixed with something else...???????

[Lookin]

It's not your Father's Mary Jane . . .

 

Dude! Whoever your dealer is, take the Bard's advice and grapple him to your breast with hoops of steel! That righteous bud he is holding in his hand is the flower of the plant. The leaves and seeds and stems that you remember from days of yore are just that: the leaves and seeds and stems.

 

The flowers contain most of the good stuff, which is why they are what you see today, almost to the exclusion of leaves and seeds and stems. It's also why the potency (and price) of marijuana has increased by an order of magnitude.

 

Years of selective breeding and modern cultivation techniques have resulted in flowers that are much larger than in the past, and loaded with the sticky compounds so prized by the cognescenti. They can be ground or, if smaller like those in the baggie, smoked whole in a pipe.

 

If ever you are tempted to recapture your past association with the cannabis plant, please do so with caution and respect. Even a single toke can take you places no man has ever gone before.

 

Or so I am told.

[doitb4ugo]

Thanks, Lookin. I could not figure out what they were. Back in my days...I was not even aware that the plant had flowers etc....So Now I understand why so many people grow them...are the flowers pretty.

[+ Travis69]

The plants really don't have flowers like you would think. The end result of a female plant, which are the ones that will give you the good stuff, get little white "hairs". The male plants get little balls. If someone is growing it they must destroy the male plants so the female plants bud better.

[Guest Bauer]

No need to be confused.

 

That looks to me like hydroponic Amsterdam Red Hair. (Amsterdam, as in the Netherlands, where this type of botany is legal) and is more than likely not marijuana at all. It looks like it is hashish plant, C. indica, which usually isn't stressed as a hydroponic but grows wild in areas with abundant tropical sunshine.

[+ azdr0710]

jesus, I'm so dazed and confused about all this new stuff....tried it about four times in college back in the early 80s just to see what it was like....didn't really like the hazy, dopey, zoned-out feeling.....never again since....gimme a Tecate or Coors Light and I'm good.....

[Guest ChgoBoy]

If someone is growing it they must destroy the male plants so the female plants bud better.

 

It's distressing to me that the "Places Where You Can't Be Gay" thread, is now pollinating and infecting itself into this one.

[Steven_Draker]

Amsterdam, as in the Netherlands, where this type of botany is legal

 

It IS legal, but strictly regulated. Furthermore by the end of the year Amsterdam will ban tourists from Pot Coffee Shops. Only Dutch citizens will grant access to the Coffee Shops which will operate as private clubs with membership cards.

[+ Gar1eth]

It IS legal, but strictly regulated. Furthermore by the end of the year Amsterdam will ban tourists from Pot Coffee Shops. Only Dutch citizens will grant access to the Coffee Shops which will operate as private clubs with membership cards.[/color]

 

I wonder if that's going to hurt their tourism industry. I'm assuming they are doing it to reduce the 'stoner' tourists who only visit to get high. But I would guess there are a lot of non- stoners who come to Amsterdam to just to experiment a little.

 

Gman

[orbital sander]

I wonder if that's going to hurt their tourism industry. I'm assuming they are doing it to reduce the 'stoner' tourists who only visit to get high. But I would guess there are a lot of non- stoners who come to Amsterdam to just to experiment a little.

 

Gman

 

Well...they still have the Red Light district...

[Lookin]

Well, Steven, in the interest of keeping you out of the pokey, at least until year's end, I must share my understanding that possession of marijuana in the Netherlands is technically illegal. But the law is not enforced as long as users follow certain, as you say, strict regulations. You can, for example, smoke as much as you like within a coffee shop. However, if you try finishing your roach out on the sidewalk, you can be cited. It's only a misdemeanor but who needs the aggravation? While they have not legalized it, the Dutch have decriminalized it.

 

They're under pressure from other European countries to tighten up their policies, and I expect they will. My feeling is that they are moving backwards and letting other factors influence what has been good public policy.

[+ deej]

jesus, I'm so dazed and confused about all this new stuff....tried it about four times in college back in the early 80s just to see what it was like....didn't really like the hazy, dopey, zoned-out feeling.....never again since....gimme a Tecate or Coors Light and I'm good.....

 

I tried it once, also in college. Bunch of us were out camping, sitting around the fire getting drunk. Someone lit a joint and passed it around so I tried it.

 

I promptly puked my guts out all over the base of a tree and never had any desire to try it again.

[JT Brooklyn]

Weed is only as good as your Supplier much like SEX is only as good as your "Working Guy"!

 

"Thank The Gods" I still have both at the same Time!

[Phil_musc]

Here again we see the result of right-wing thinking taking over the world with the result that forward-thinking countries are rethinking policies that actually were progressive and did some good. I'm thinking the conservative backlash in Canada against legalized gay marriage specifically. But also here in the Netherlands with them making marijuana more restricted again. Doesn't anyone else think it's kind of tacky (at least) to say to tourists that such and such a place is off-limits to you. Additionally, I would hope that the Dutch restaurant owners would realize how decriminalized pot might benefit them. Frequently after smoking, one gets the urge to eat - the so-called munchies. And my god, Dutch chocolate is FABULOUS when one has the munchies (er, so I've been told).

 

Now for those of you who tried it once or twice and had a bad experience, I'm sorry for you. Having a Coors or two is NOT the same experience. Also, listening to music under the influence was a great experience (strongly recommend Mahler as well as some Wagner - heck even J.S. Bach could be awesome). And then the sex - well, doesn't anyone remember the recording "Stoned Love?" How do you think the singer came up with this idea - certainly by not glancing through Ladies Home Journal or My Weekly Reader!

[Rick Munroe]

It's distressing to me that the "Places Where You Can't Be Gay" thread, is now pollinating and infecting itself into this one.

 

LOL And I wasn't even here!

[Guest Bauer]

If there are not going to be Space Cakes from the Milky Wayfor those with connections at Schipol, then someone is going to have to find that recipe.

 

Those (I heard) made it worth travelling through Schipol rather than Frankfurt.

 

The EU these days.

[Guest Bauer]

Off topic, but nonetheless: Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine are playing the Milky Way 08 / 02.

 

And in case someone is in the neighbourhood: GACKT Yellow Fried Chickenz 2011 European Tour, is there this Tuesday.

[Phil_musc]

What is going on here? Has this thread evaporated in smoke - so to speak or what? We had a perfectly coherent thread on marijuana and this morning I find I can't follow anything on this since my post of last evening/ Is this just slang that I am too unhip to know about or what? I thought it was kind of a nostalgia thread and now I haven't a clue as to what's being written about. Please help. PM if better.

[Steven_Draker]

What is going on here? ... We had a perfectly coherent thread on marijuana and this morning I find I can't follow anything on this since my post of last evening ... I haven't a clue as to what's being written about.

 

Maybe someone was smoking too much in the wee hours ...

 

A Space Cake is what they call "cannabis food"

 

Cannabis foods (including hash brownies and space cakes), are food products made with cannabis in herbal or resin form as an ingredient. They are consumed as an alternate delivery means to experience the effects of cannabinoids without smoking marijuana or hashish. Instead, the cannabinoids are put into cake, cookie, brownie, or other foods, and are consumed for recreational or medicinal purposes.

 

There are many different names and slang terms for the recipes. Prefixes such as hash, cannabis, weed, space, cosmic, freaky, magic, special, enhanced, medicated, fabricated, buffed, stimulated, stimmed, superskunk, evolved are added to the name of the food that they are prepared with: "hash cakes," "special brownies" etc.

 

http://www.picvault.info/images/537097805_Space-cake-a.jpg

[bostonman]

Given the label on that spacecake (with "had to much" twice, and "dissy"), I'd say someone was sampling the product at work, lol.

[Guest Bauer]

The label is odd and not all that instructional. Reading just the second word of every line: "about" "is" "your" "full", one could assume that you could have an "about face if you eat till you are full".

 

It clearly needs a better warning label.

[Guest Bauer]

What is going on here? Has this thread evaporated in smoke - so to speak or what? We had a perfectly coherent thread on marijuana and this morning I find I can't follow anything on this since my post of last evening/ Is this just slang that I am too unhip to know about or what? I thought it was kind of a nostalgia thread and now I haven't a clue as to what's being written about. Please help. PM if better.

Perhaps some translation is warranted:

 

Jello Biafra: Not to be confused with Jello Shots. Jello Biafra is basically Eric Reed Boucher of Boulder, Colorado, formerly the lead singer for the Dead Kennedys. (Former bands can be important for those who do actually remember that Paul McCartney actually had a band before Wings.)

 

Schipol: Amsterdam International Airport. A highly efficient airport servicing inbound European and African flights. Much more efficient than Rome or Athens for connecting flights, if flying into say, Dar, or onward into say, Alma Ata.

 

Of course, one shouldn't mix Jello Shots with Space Cakes, even if one is comfortably ensconced in a 747 cabin waiting for the next leg of their flight home. One should probably just stick with Gravol. ;-)

[Guest Bauer]

Here again we see the result of right-wing thinking taking over the world with the result that forward-thinking countries are rethinking policies that actually were progressive and did some good. I'm thinking the conservative backlash in Canada against legalized gay marriage specifically. But also here in the Netherlands with them making marijuana more restricted again.

That is a shame. There were many people who viewed Rotterdam as one of the most important business centers on the continent. People who would never think of signing binding contracts, in this magical "stick to the knitting" World of Disney business environment without mulling the papers over, in a progressive state over a coffee and a smoke.

 

Now those people have nowhere to turn to.