A word to the wise: Sol was the self-styled name of a jackass I knew in college. Spice of Life, it stood for -- even worse than the obviously solar overtones.
Saul is Abe's friend. He's infinitely more likeable and has a special fondness for pickled green tomatoes.
Oh my!
Lids....hmmmmmm.........to make you think twice about taking drugs?
I understand that "lids" go for hundreds of dollars around these parts, these days - for a weed, go figure!
I'm on the younger side of things, and there's something I've been wondering for a while: what did you hippies mean by "lid," anyway?
things that cover containers...
What size was the container, how wide was the opening, how many threads were there on the lip, and how densely were the threads spaced?
It was never a certainty, but it was always alleged to me that this referred to reefer loosely packed in the lid of a Hellman's mayonnaise quart jar, and equalled roughly 3/4 of an ounce.
Then they've changed their lids since then. Looking in the frig, I'd say that wouldn't be more than a quarter, 3/8 tops.
We use to get 2 finger, 3 finger or 4 finger lids. Making sure to check for lumber, tops and quality - it was always "suppose" to be 1 oz. (2 finger would be manicured, 4 finger had a lot of large lumber - normally)
Usually go for a "good" 3 finger lid (this was in a baggy) for $15-25.00. Ahhhhh, the good old days
patiodog wrote:Then they've changed their lids since then. Looking in the frig, I'd say that wouldn't be more than a quarter, 3/8 tops.
The lids to which i refer were different--they were metal, not plastic, and about 1/2" deep.
Where's Mr. Crumb when you need him?
We used Glad sandwich bags - an ounce, they had in them. You had special scales.
A nickel bag was maybe a quarter of an ounce or better, and actually cost just five bucks on the street. (no guarantees about lumber and such, of course; you hadda know your dealer).
Are u guys talking in english ?
We used to get nickles in those little, wooden match boxes--which meant, given the size, that large lumber was out, although it could be seedy. I used to pay $12.50/lid for commercial, and $15.00/lid for the really good stuff . . . these days, a decent quarter goes for $30.00 or more--or so i'm told, at any event.
Gautam, here are some slang terms associated with marijuana:
reefer, pot, boo, gange, dope, weed, rope--all are terms for the substance itself
reefer, joint, stick, spleef, blunt--cigarette rolled with mj
sinse refers to sinsemilla, meaning without seed, and was during the late 70's and the 80's synonymous with the most potent weed--these days, such weed is usually referred to as skunk because of it's very strong aroma before it is smoked
Gange, or ganja, comes from Jamaica, where the weed continues to be grown in production quantities--the true Jamaican is readily identifiable by a very strong earthy smell
In the 60's and early 70's, the legendary weed in the U.S. was Oaxacan (pronounced "wah-hacan," and named after the large city Oaxaca which is south of Mexico City), but Columbian gold and Columbian and Panamania "red bud" took the honors in the 70's. Columbian seems to have disappeared from the market.
The terms nickle or five cents, dime or ten cents refer in fact to five dollars or ten dollars worth, and derives from an earlier "criminal" slang. The terms are almost never used these days, as five dollars worth of reefer these days would not give enough for a decent joint . . .
LOL! $30 (AUD) a weight ounce - heads - as sold by me boyfriend....
Oaxaca not only has legendary weed, it has seven (count 'em, seven) different moles (pronounced mo-lays), all distinct from the moles made in the rest of Mexico. Wonderful stuff....
