Old Weed vs New Weed with Tommy Chong | Wild Ride! Clips 

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lol those people in the theater definitely got high from the smoke lmao

@@breezetix I wouldn’t bet they were the only ones smoking that during a Cheech and Chong movie

@@baileyward1 the theater was probably a giant hotbox

@@robertsmithfan877 from one joint ? It was probably a tobacco hotbox

I love me some sour diesel so it honestly makes me so happy I can go get some that grown and cured properly 💕

When was the list time you had nothin but middies to smoke? I haven't see brick weed in forever.

@@jaymcdude1291 i havent smoked weed since 5 years ago. edibles or vape

Lucky fellas, Columbus sucks

Nothing like a good strawberry sour diesel rosin

Then I recommend THCA Hemp. It’s high CBD, low THC. It’s legal in almost all 50 states due to the 2018 farm bill, therefore you can even have it shipped to your mailbox! The outdoor has that classic weed look, smell, etc. Thank me later.

Most of the weed I used to get was brick also. I remember just jamming buds into a bowl uncleaned to smoke and the seeds would explode and burn your shirt and the car would smell 😅

How “Old a fella” I was getting stoned from 1967 on…. 68/73 was unbelievable weed, Colombian Gold, Afghan Hash, Thai Stick, Hash Oil. Twas a hell of a time 🐶🇱🇹😎

Yeah but i feel like now anyone can get good seeds with godly genetics and grow their own weed pretty easily and it's gonna be fire while back in the day you really had to be a cultivator and know what you're doing

@@costo2100 we'd just save the rare feminized seeds from the best sensimilia strains around at the time. Marijuana doesn't require much fertilization and specific soil so the curing process was definitely the most critical factor as it is today.

Dont you feel the head high is difffernt?

@@originsdecoded3508 yeah I'm sure some of the newer strains are producing a higher THC content but it seems some of the uniqueness of the old, original strains isn't available anymore. The old strains were very unique to where they originated.

@@thenorthshore6472 The weed back from the old days I remember it being it like a mellow smooth train ride along the countryside where the mind opened up and the subtleness of imagination would unfold. Todays weed feels like riding a Jet plane blasting through the sky, where their is no subtleness, but a rush of energy thats hard to tame. then the come down knocks you out like an indica. atleast the good potent sativas. but if it does that, that should we call it good?

That's because he's still an addict mentally. It takes years to get over the psychological aspect addiction. Once you've been sober long enough you don't care about the shit anymore.

@@wantsome-zs5sq Or he likes connecting with people and hearing their stories. ??

how you judge someone when you got a car stuck up your asa once. No disrespect but if “you should be last one talk was a person” steve o on one of them

steve o is still a pot head today 😂

Yeah you normally don't see that with recovering alcoholics and drug addicts normally they turn into dicks as far as that type of stuff goes

right, and there's just more general knowledge about how to get the most out of your crop. Although you could probably argue that terpene profiles have changed which could also be argued to equal a "better" version of the plant. idk I'm stoned

I never saw bad weed back then. I see bad weed every single time I check out a dispensary today. You guys think looks matter. Yall smoking pretty trash.

@@howiegruwitz3173 Depends where you go though tbh. Esp if its newly legal in your area it might be garbage for a couple years.

@@howiegruwitz3173 then you do not remember the 80's with Raygun and his paraquat or the 90's and seeds. the average person till 15 years ago got crappy brick weed.

the weed from 60s, 70s and 80s was very bad only until the early and mid 90s did they even approach 15-20% THC. The highest THC you could have on a plant in the hippie era was 8%

Agreed

Facts a lot treat podcasts like interviews when they should be conversations more than anything.

Lolol you're among the few with that opinion because even.steve himself hates how he constantly makes everything about him on the show.and he's had to.really work.on it. He's gotten.a lot better since the beginning.

@@EnvisionedBlindness Well in this instance it was refreshing to see

To be fair if Tommy Chong is telling you about the history of marijuana you listen

See...I never had a chance to smoke premium 90's weed. From what I understand, it was the most colorful.

Ah yes the important step of deweeding the seed. I remember.

The old shoebox lid to separate the seeds by tilting it and shaking.

@@dalebronniman9060 Right! Using the zigzag pack as the devider. 😂

So true,now someone finds a seed,it's a sin

shoot I didn't have to do that till I took a trip to the Bahamas in 2007. would get a couple of bags with seeds in them before that but in the Bahamas it was like it was compressed in a brick and chopped up with a cleaver. tons of seeds and stems still got me stoned in the Bahamas tho so totally worth it.

Its his false teeth

@Hubert Harmon I feel this is correct.

I came just to scroll into the comments to see if someone would say something about that smile he couldn't hold back

@@seansta21 me too ,I thought I'd half to point it out

You know Steve -o crawled from out a rock with his real kind bud

Naw you can always tell they different with real za or midd

@@Eman300man right especially if you experienced

I have this problem, i cant get stoned unless its really well grown strain or i grow myself. due to my tolerance, my edible start dose is 200mg, ill take 3 doses of that on a saturday lol

I think its bullshit. It depends how powerful the lights you grow with.... how well you take care of the plants. Hydroponic? You've never tried Biker weed have ya. :P white as snow... crystals like you've never seen.

@@MrWolfheart111 I have been smoking weed since I was 12, and I am in my 50's now. I have been growing weed since I was 19, indoor and outdoor, long before it was ever legal. I have raised landrace sativas and indicas alike, indoor and outdoor. I promise you that you do not have more experience with weed than Tommy Chong and I. What Tommy said was true, the weed back then was just as good as today. Sativas, true sativas, are very difficult to grow indoors and impossible to grow profitably, yet sativas have mind b!owing highs that indicas cannot match because the high is different. That is why people try to cross strains. That is what I meant about weed getting better indoors. If you believe you can come c?ose to matching the experience levels of Tommy Chong and I, well, good luck.

@@jamesstepp1925 No I cant come close to growing anything like that... but I have friends that do. :) You cant get better weed than unlimited money can make. :)

My mother (born in 1960) always told me that weed these days looks, smells, and smokes worse than the worst weed she's smoked in the 70's yet I never believed her. Are there still OG strains being grown anymore or is everything cross breed and being produced the "new way"? I've been trying to get some good weed for my mom but I know nothing is the same and she'd just be disappointed. I'd love to know if there are still good ones out there for the old school people

I worked with a guy that used to tell me the something. It seems to me that all the hybrids/cross breeding made the sativas weaker. It's hard to find a good sativa now.

Reading this high made me laugh hard. Thank you.

oof

High atm but you are on something my dude! I havent even't looked up stoner shit in months but I used to a long time ago and now it recommended me this just like you and couldnt resist to click!

@@ajhayden3307 glad to help🙏🏾

@@TheInsaneTheorist fr fr

my Grandad was from Naples Italy, and made wine his whole life, until he moved into a building for the elderly which was the end of his wine making days. an overpowering smell of grape used to fill the basement. rest his soul.

This is basically what he said.... He made a comparison to weed today to hash back then... I'm honestly disappointed by his lack of understanding. "How can the plant change?" Just like vegetables that didn't exist in the 60s....

Funny. Yeah Thai stick had more than weed in it. Same with old day hash. Today some consider plain ole compressed kief to be hash. Not.

@@Abe18874 Thai stick has small amounts of opium in it which increased the high a lot

@@benblosser6739 same with those original import Nepalese temple balls.

Bullshit not fucking dank back then wasn't hardly most 90s most little towns tell late 90s and skunk or homegrown been strongest not dank even tai stick its hash looking Mexican brick was norm was good stuff not dank or like now! Sure was good stuff here n there ask willie say he deserves crown or snoop cause Chong made a name money being dumb hippie what he say was in the gym his thing puff puff here there

@@robertayoder2063 what

@@robertayoder2063you wot bud

@@technodealer9782 just see it as a brand he created says liked gym better not a total burn out like we all think not blazing away was not dank is strong as dope then and I been around since 90s most was Mexican commercial some skunk was kush California every where america there wasn't dank tell late 9os came main stream was 55 a 8th then 60 now kentucky grew good home grown dank the 60s ah no willie or snoop our real potheads wasn't dank in a stong as now if was came from different country and not be any where near a kush plant or anything of that kind 😉

Uhhhhhh......no

I'm 52 as well... you had bad connections...

@@vtwinner Riiiiight. Let me guess, you're another science denier. Proven fact: THC levels have gone way up over the last few decades.

exactly. all about breeding. Humans manually crossbreed.

I have you by a 1/2 doz. yrs or so and started smokin @ 13. So back in the day we would sit in a group passing a jay or a pipe for hours smokin "regular weed " I don't think many people could do that with today's shit.. Well maybe Tommy could but he lost the last of his important brain cells long ago lol . We would get the " high end " dope too but ya could'nt smoke it for hours non-stop I miss the regular weed 4 finger oz's for 30 bucks the 70's were my fav

@@donaldschell1435 Ah yes I miss those huge bags of weed for a few bucks lol.

some of the best (potent) weed I ever puffed was in the late '70's. purple sensimillia & thai stick. best high ever.

Im not that old.. But i know about sinsimela

@@kingfelix1966 it's actually spelled, sinsemilla. ✌️

I remember having some Jamaican weed back in 1988. It was the stickiest stuff I've ever seen. It was perfect for rolling joints with. The paper would just stick to it and roll the most perfect joint. The only problem with it though was, you could take a hit and if you didn't take another hit or pass it to somebody else to take a hit immediately, it would go out and you would have to light it again. It was kind of a pain in the ass but it was the best weed I ever smoked. Hands down it was as good as anything they have today. This is coming from someone who has smoked for 42 years. I've tried them all.

@@johnfabozzi3636 I remember getting weed like what you described. You had to light it every time you took a hit. I'm my opinion, the weed is better overall today, but the best weed's I ever smoked was from back then. I grew up in Orange County, CA., and we had so many types of weed not only from California, but from around the world, because of the Ports.

I agree Columbia Gold bud was the best I have ever smoked even against some 30 % THC weed. It was also the best tasting weed ever. Barry Seal bought back the best weed in the world. I visited his grave site a couple months ago because he is buried in the cemetery I will be in.

@@Dave-zy6de will be in ?!

$35 an oz. a doobie would last for 30minutes,today's weed is sprayed with something😂 Acapulco Gold

@@markolsen4394 genetically assaulted more like

yes indeed the gold was the top shelf smoke back in the day it came from santa marta colombia the color was awesome it was rich and one doob is all you needed for the day it gave you the heavy head there was also good jamaican commercial back then to that was real stony came from mountain terrain area's on the island it all went away i would say about 1980 0r 81 then the sinsemilla showed up

amen

i got some really good stuff in the 80's . It seemed to do the job , lol . I've only seen the gold twice . Both times was very small quantity , and very good .

You can get high smoking Mid. Doesn't make it as good as the primo though.

Nah my dad tells me storys he was a big drug addict and he still got faded off of mids cuz peoples tolerance back then just stayed low

obviously you guys got high. It was still weed and your brain wasn't used to the amount. But for us smoking the stuff we got now plus wax. There's no way ima believe it that it was nearly as strong as today. I saw the pics of best strains in books and they all looked like dirt weed. Maybe if you were really rich you could have some decent stuff that obviously was considered the best but now with chemicals and all the techniques they use there's no way lmao

Thanks brother !!!!!

Fond memories 💯✌️

New more powerful strains aren’t usually enhanced with chemicals. It’s all botanical practices like cross-breeding. Same thing Gregor Mendel was doing centuries before any of us were born.

I'm growing an outdoor wedding cake this season, all organic fertilizer and just regular water. It's flowering in week 4 now and I might never ever grow indoors again. This outdoor flower is the most amazing thing I've ever seen.

You said no chemicals so no water? Nah

Thanks for sharing this!

Except for the fact that female plants don't produce pollen.

@@gnarbs4512 sometimes u need to listen too what ppl mean rather than exactly what they said.

You knew what he was talking about though.

Tommy Chong got so many things wrong in this short clip. I've studied the history of weed, strains, how sativa originally came from an indica plant and on and on. Tommy Chong is just a burnout. What's the big deal about weed anyway? We can all get it. Always could. Its just a part of our lives like alcohol. I don't get making weed your culture, especially when you are still as dumb on the subject as Tommy Chong.

dudes literally wrong. weed has changed it has gotten stronger due to selective breeding. this clip is ignorance.

@Mike Dylan and the big oil stain in the middle of your joint.....😎

especially in a bowl. the seeds used to pop in my eye lol

@@joer-tard2821 😂

And the taste is something I'll never forget either. Horrible tasting and harsh as hell. I'll still come across the random seed that somehow forced itself into existence, maybe 1 tiny seed in every couple of ounces or so

Shit, I still get that fire Reggie!!! With all the dro and the plethora of other goodies, sometimes some good old fashioned Fire Reggie is just what the doctor ordered. Especially the differences in smell both in the bag and, especially while being burned are totally different. I remember a few occasions, while partying with friends, they would ask what kind of bud I'm smoking, because the smell was something they hadn't experienced before. I was like "What you never smelled regular weed before!?" I can't believe that there is a generation of kids that smoke weed, but have never had the experience and the pleasure of smoking regular weed. I guess it's just nostalgia on my part? 😂

The ol farmers courtesy Replace what you take

Thai stick doesn't count its frigging concentrate. It's oil and and weed.

@Martin Madden terpenes play a roll. Hit some pure thc and tell me it's as good as some shatter. Without mixing it without any terpenea.

@Martin Madden pure thc distillate aka single pass if you're in the know and got proper equipment or yes the thca diamonds but gotta be the clear Crack rock looking ones. If there's yellow it's got terps. Compared to a shatter that's 95 percent rhc been refined so absolute shatter and still has like 5 percent terps.

@Martin Madden bro. Thai stick is made with fucking oil and weed. I know how to make the shit. You literally have no clue what you're on about. It's also the reason retards run around saying it has opium in it.

@Martin Madden try some of the early skunks and hazes. Red bud and gold bud are land race. They're just nice weed but not top quality.

What crap u got. Nothing but good shit in my presence.

@@2oshow I planted my first patch 50 years ago. Pretty good at it by now.

Yeah. That's all crap compared to what is available now. Like comparing a caramel apple from a fair to organic sparkling caramel apple cider.

@@alex1088 And you are HOW old? 30?

@@MarcusRefusius " I said “that’s outrageous!“ vs. " It was laden with seeds too" xD being old doesn't mean nothing in this matter.

Thats awesome dude. Ever since I heard him mention the 3 count thing I use it for stuff too😂

Holy Fuck! I do the same thing for the same reason. Lmao

@@MaxRockatansky853 sometimes I hold 2 a while lol. One love fellow T1D

If you lightly put the needle on your skins in a few different places until you don't feel anything, then inject. You'll miss blood vessel and pain that way. I got diagnosed on mothers day last year. My dad showed me this trick. He's been type 1 for 30 years

@@hikingwitht1d844 🤟🤟🥳🥳🇺🇲😆😆

😂🤣😂

Slappy

Hahahahaha

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My p5roblem is today, there are 500 different names for the same weed, just so people can say they're different. I guess it comes from the music genre naming conventions. Like, do we really need 1,000 different Metal genres?

Oh yes, the gold, Acapulco & Colombian... mmmmmmmm

Never had the pleasure of smoking those legendary strains you mention, except for Thai stick. I doubt, though, that the TS I've smoked was true TS. But I'm convinced that the sun-grown brick grass you could buy until about 20 years ago was more potent than a lot of the stuff you see today. The grass of 20 years ago wasn't brilliant every time. But when it was good it was REALLY good. It gave uplift and energy.

liar

SOUTH BEND? Oh damn, I forgot they played the Morris back in the day. I saw Carlin there a few times.

Hahahahaha I can’t believe what I just read

true acapuco gold! wow still some of the finest out there.. unless u want the fruity drink and cant handle the smoke! :P lol

Nowadays the names are just ridiculous, it used to be named after the place of origin or a physical characteristic. Also budda sticks were different than regular Thai sticks. Real Thai sticks were wrapped around a bamboo stick wit the thread being a fiber pulled from the stem, budda sticks were wrapped with cotton string. The thread was stained red because they used solvents to thin the opium enough for dipping. I've been smoking since '64 so I'm old as dirt and fart dust.

@@darrellcook8253 TRUTH dust to dust ashes to ashes! Started early 70's ,original Thai stick yummy! 64 still rocking and rolling!

@@darrellcook8253 My Husband told me about Thai stick and Blond Hash he said some troops would smuggle the stick back from Vietnam when they went on leave in Thailand. Look up on you tube this kid found a box buried with Thai stick in it and some military stuff in it it may be on TY still. He said he smoked a little bit of thai weed pop on some Robin Trower Johnny Winters captured live or Jeff Beck he said what a roller coaster high.

100% 36 year old me can never get as high as 18 year old me that kid got mashed now I wake n bake and smoke single skin joint rollups all day & no matter the strain I'm just chill but will never get that youthful giggly high ever again

@@WhatwouldRoddyPiperdo Cuz you haven't tried quitting for longer periods. Try quitting for a month or two. One J will blast you to mars and back.

@@1BuFo I would happily do that if it wasn't my pain meds I have full body arthritis without smoke I have zero quality of life. But I've also taken breaks for reasons come back and smoked the same amount take into account about 25 years of tolerance build up.

@@WhatwouldRoddyPiperdo My Husband said that also.He remembers the roller coaster high he used to get when he was younger in the 70s and 80s.

@@1BuFo Two hits bro !

I sort of feel that when your starting out the skunk component overwhelms your senses and the subtle characters of that sort of indica herb are lost to you after a few years you tune out the skunk portion and can focus on the differences underneath. i started to develop this theory when i noticed each generation claiming they saw the true road kill in early 80s then 90s then 2000ks.. if you ask a non smoker today what a strong indica smells like they will say a skunk makes my eyes water etc L

@@XxmattitudexX the real skunk strains were bred out in the late 90s before carbon filters became mainstream , there are people actively trying to bring it back though

Roadkill was the best! Rip.

YOU CAN'T SAY THAT MAN. WHAT DO YOU WANT MAN GOOD GRAMMAR OR GOOD TASTE, HE'S GOT A POINT THERE JR.👍🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😎

No stems no seeds that you don't need Acapulco gold is a mighty fine weed

It's Dave...Open up, I got the stuff... Who? Dave? Dave's not here..

Throwback to cheech saying he used to smoke Acapulco gold before he hits Chong giant joint

Well to be fair, the stems can be used to help grow hybrids. Not to mention the fact that you can make some amazing tea and coffee with them..! But I feel ya..! ✌️

plus they dont use pollen to make hash lol

Yes, that old dude knows what he's talking about. I remember hash from about 1980. Today's hydro is good, but not better than that stuff.

We'd been spliced pollinated hibred better and better than ever thanks you refer GOD'S love you!!!$$$

@@TheOMGWTFBBQ777 they do make types of hash with pollen/kief. There's one we get in Spain very easily called pollen rubio. I'm not exactly sure how but I think they out the kief in a kief press. Just look up pollen hash

@@dseco2145 That's not pollen though. Kief is tricoms , resin. I believe the male plants release pollen but I've never heard of anything being made from it. Tommys old ( like me) and that's probably what he's always called kief. I don't doubt you that it's called that in spain but sounds like a misnomer to me.

DOOOD my dad used to tell me about this same shit to the point my friend and me was always like damn we wished we could try that and Qualuds! lol

Come on dude that old time grass was crass in comparison to what may little brother grows cuz I know well that he's got it growing crazy.

@@davidblais1043 Were you there? Of course, I grew some shit that Willie wouldn't smoke. Everyone would only take one toke. If you have never partook in the strains I described, your simply spewing hot air!!

The stuff now days is bad for you to many chemicals yeah you get higher but it’s not healthy it was more natural back then also has more fungi, pesticides, and heavy metals I quit like 8 years ago I eat some here and there but I don’t like it makes me feel weird

In todays world you do know that's mid grade right in mexico they still sell it but its super cheap an low quality. Atleast where i was

woah, do say more

That shit is still the best imo.

Haven't run into real good skunky smelling bud since I was a teen around 2004 or so.. I'm almost thinking it was just the way it smelled to me as a kid or something cause even picking up supposed "skunk" strains.. it's just not as stinky as it used to be.

@@collinmc90 i literally just harvested a Sensi Seeds Skunk #1 Auto. Barely a skunk smell at all, more of a fruity sweet, but huge massive nuggets, and it smokes so well!!

@@collinmc90 Try stardawg , 1 gram of that will stink out a entire train carriage

The dank kind lmao

bruh i fuck with this comment so legendary

The best weed strain is maui waui x labrador!

Only dank shit we had in middle school were dank vapes lmao, fake ass shit

@@mostdope9785 love vaping vitamin c

Tommy's been around a bit longer and he's Canadian. They grow some damn fine weed up there. I offered a friend of mine from Canada some skunk weed in the early 80s. He told me that would be considered regular weed where he was from. I visited there a few years later. All the weed I tried there was much better than the stuff I was getting in So Cal unless I was paying $200 an ounce for it.

I would have to agree with you. Acapulco Gold was my favorite. And we didn't buy it by the gram or ounce. It was always a nickel bag, dime bag, or a quarter bag. I tried an edible once. Just one square from a candy bar and I was drooling for 6 hours. But, I'm 60 now and I don't use it to get high anymore. I use it as medicine. I have rheumatoid arthritis and I can't take the medicine for it cause it makes my mouth break out in sores even though I'm taking folic acid to counteract that. Cannabis plus CBD takes away the pain. I still feel some pain right before it rains.

@@robinalford2186 They didn't sell lids where you're from? They quit calling them that once the prices started rising but I bought $10 lids for the first several years I was smoking in the early to mid 70s. We bought smaller amounts too but they were never precisely measure to the gram. We used our fingers to measure weed.

@@gator2813 I'm from Kentucky and we used our fingers to measure it out too in the 70s. I've never heard of "lids." We called them dime bags for $10 worth and so on. We put them in sandwich bags to measure them out.

@@robinalford2186 I thought they called them lids everywhere. Roughly an ounce. 4 fingers was a standard lid. I learned from older smokers at first. 60s people. I learned about bongs and buds and cleaning your weed from school mates with slightly older siblings. I'd heard of skunk weed in the 70s but I never tried it till I was 20 in 1980. It was hard to get and $200 an ounce. I only made $200 a week before taxes back then.

Then I recommend THCA Hemp. It’s high CBD, low THC. It’s legal in almost all 50 states due to the 2018 farm bill, therefore you can even have it shipped to your mailbox! The outdoor has that classic weed look, smell, etc.

@@fgh46d either the sober life is that fucking fun or he blazed a bowl of moon rocks... He had a permanent 😁 the whole interview

Lmfaooo. I can't stop laughing..

Ive mentioned his books to hundreds of stoners and not once had anyone known wtf I was talking about.. Go figure lol

Tommy got it wrong, Himalayan hashish is called Charas, it is rubbed off living cannabis plants by HAND, creases serving as collection points. Top grade charas an experienced worker will rub about 20 grams a day, at maximum. It is hard work done by families. Worst grades produced by childred, elite grades by old women with decades of experience and a touch more gentle than the wind.

@@BertShackleford With all due respect, it’s always better to educate than dilapidate. We believe in kindness in the cannabis community, not hate 😌

@@BertShackleford it doesn’t matter what you call it. Just as long as it brings you peace of mind that’s all that matters.

@@flowleopard893 thankyou. Evidently Tommy’s never smoked malana cream

@DeadParadoxTV TOTD Two different worlds apart

Yes I remember as a fellow old fart - there was good stuff in the 70's- but at a premium price. Standard Mexican Ounce was about $15 with stems and seeds of course! Took a good part of a joint to get you high though -

My parents tell me all about Acapulco gold and Thai stick and the hash that used to make it to Butte, Montana in the 70s was apparently amazing and was about 5 bucks a gram. But the real old school drugs I wish I could try (just for the experience, I am aware people ruined their lives over this) is the old school pharmaceuticals lol. Black beauties, Yellow jackets, Quaaludes, and of course I would loooove to try some of that old 70s cocaine. god damn You can't even buy real cocaine anymore in the USA.

@@ghomsey5372 Hah -I was buying the Mexican lids that had been sprayed with paraquat by the US Gov - lol

Real AC Gold had a very wonderful, unique chill to it :) Peace!

I haven't seen skunk in over a decade.

@@TiggerNyeah yea it's been almost that long for me as well, sad days.

I remember that skunk from when I was a kid, north Florida in the 90s, my dad stayed with it

@@666hobart New Zealand is the place to go where do y'all stay?

I'm convinced skunk weed doesn't exist anymore. GMO cookies is about as offensive as you can get and it really isn't even a drop in the bucket as far as the real deal skunk stank went.

Ah , Panama red , great times

It's all relative because your perception of good weed was different then

It is impossible for me to even narrow down the stupid and uninformed posts to one to reply to. For starters, it's absolute bullshit to assert that the quality of weed in terms of the quality of effects, the high and how few hits it takes to get those effects are only about the percentage of THC. Yes...THC is ONE cannabinoid that is absolutely responsible for much of the effect. There are also around 200 (more or less) other cannabinoids and terpines that provide an entourage effect that make relatively infinite possible effects in various combinations for the final effects. There are strains now, and there were in the 70's, and earlier that would kick your ass with a couple or a few tokes that have a much lower delta 9 THC % than many of the ultra high THC strains today. This is fact. Also...it is fact that MOST people bought shit weed back then, for a variety of reasons. Having good connections was key. Colombian Gold and Red bud, Panama Red, Thai Stick, Hawaiian, Alaskan (and many more) were all 2 hit and you're stoned to the bone, even for wake n bakers like I was back then. Add to that, black and some of the red hash, hash oil and the more refined "honey oil" were also available, and powerful as fuck. If you weren't around, you don't qualify to dispute these facts simply because you read something somewhere, or some 30 year old prodigy told you so. Although MOST people didn't have access, and many could only afford the 10-15 bucks for a seedy bag of shitty brick weed...great shit was available if you knew the right people. While I agree, that not only Tommy Chong, but even today people, and even manufacturers who call devices to make hash "pollen presses", and the screens that filter trichomes "pollen screens" are just wrong...I would bet any amount of money that Tommy had access. Thai sticks were bad ass, great genetics grown with care and generations of knowledge. They didn't need opium to kick it up, although I've heard arguments both ways and tend to believe that there may have been SOME that were...but have nothing to base that on other than stories. There seems to be an abundance of arrogance on this whole "our" shit is better these days. I personally enjoy the variety and qualities available today...IF grown organically, with good genetics, and by someone who knows what they are doing, not only with the grow, but the dry and cure [arguably the most important part aside from great genetics]. Sure, you can grow impressive looking buds fast with hydro and chemical nutrients, but combine that with the industrial grow ethos and total disregard for a proper dry and cure on the race to market, you have the formula for why so many dispensaries sell shit. Yes...even the stuff with the 20-30% THC labels. Tommy may not have articulated the facts perfectly, but so what? He's Tommy Fucking Chong, he's been all over the world, and I'll bet he's smoked the best wherever he went, and probably some of the worst as well at some points. He may not be a scientist...but he's a fucking legend, so fuck off on the Tommy bashing.

@@kentkilgore8654 should post this!

@@kentkilgore8654 Yes absolutely. It drives me nuts that all ppl talk about is THC %.... that's barely important when everything is above 7%, anything above that is more than enough THC. Like you said, THC is just ONE of the properties... there is much more that goes into the effect and the reason I don't like concentrates unless they're solventless and full spectrum

Well he went to clown school id argue when he arrived the clowns prolly sad we have a natural

He has an upside-down smile.

He seems very disinterested. Probably cause he's straight edge now.

Kinda creepy imo

He looked absolutely fried 😂

Remember that really seedy Columbia Gold that tasted like Hash and how it would Expand in your lungs.. the high was one of the best

Yeah, the flavor was like no other, including today! All those great strains, the golds, Hawaiians, early Nor Cal, all those flavors & smells are gone. I'd take those again over any of these, mine is the highest thc of all bud! I know all you millennials are going to say bs, but trust me on this it not some made up story.

Yeah, I haven't smelled, felt, or tasted anything like the thai I scored back in the day

@@daled8221 Panama red, Humboldt, occasionally Alaskan. Now it's sativa, indica,or hybrid. THC %. The rest I don't care, call it what you want. Last stuff : kzittlk. Why?

Panama red,columbian gold,thia stick. What was the % ?.did not matter better than anything today. Had to roll the joint very loose resin flowing after 2nd pull. Good old times!!!!!!

I’m 64 and yeah we had some good shit back then! Thai stick had me the highest ever. Many of these newer strains are great but ahh the old days!

Smoked Thai stick in the early 80's , nothing compares these days , simply the best. It was wrapped around a stick like a satay skewer and tied with different coloured cotton to rank the different strains. Proper Thai sticks man

4 finger lids

@@geminirat60 For 10 bucks 20 for the c-bo... Those were the days ..

Hell nah....all that trash,things get better with time the New budz r way better,smell better look better that 70's trash thank God I wasn't around back then

@@jasonmcdaniel7534 How would you know... you just said you weren't around then. Lay off the shatter, kid.

@@scottdunn2178 puna butter , African Swazi and elephant all would in the top shelves in the dispensaries 💯

@@jasonmcdaniel7534 It wouldn't hold it's own against alot of today's strains but some it can which are still pretty potent not trash.

🤦🏽‍♂️how is this even a debate. Give a chilli eater back in the 50s a Carolina reaper and ask the question. Chilli peppers have a scaling system as does weed🤔

The thing is, people can now grow their own at home. 100% organic, fed the cleanest, purest water and the plant can honestly be completed doted over from seed to harvest. I don't see how this is fundamentally different from what you guys had back in the 70's. Sure you probably had access to more purity (in terms of strain), but the plan hasn't fundamentally changed - the way it's mass produced and access has.

Tommy is spot on and he has smoked over the years so if you didn't smoke in the 70's then your just offering an opinion.

Those climates still exist, and those growers still have the option to grow it the same way. They don't, because scientifically we can test to see the potency of the plant and we learn that it is TRASH. Nostalgia blinds the old heads, they think the 70s weed is lost but it's still around, its that stuff you're disappointed to get from your dealer. The twiggy, leafy, crappy and scrappy backyard crap.

i disagree with this a little. i agree with how its grown now and everything but, weed is stronger now they did not have the thc percents in the 70's that we have now they just didnt and it is proven. i love Tommy but i highly disagree with this statement.

@@noncomplacent Why someone did not develop those strains is beyond me. Nothing today tastes like the Gold used to.

2-4 tokes off the stuff i smoke and ur gone as well. the gigh is more enjoyable too. if you find some that you like.

Don’t forget blond Lebanese hash oil. Many people in the US called it honey oil, due to its color. The very best of their oil never left Lebanon.

There's a lot of "Instagram weed" out there today. Bred for pretty colors and to look nice in pictures... but often pretty damn disappointing. As Tommy alluded to, you can trace that back to stuff like High Times centerfolds and plain old marketing hype.

Technically alot of misstatements in this interview. But I understand what he means. I personally Dont prefer todays weed as it is over hybridized/cross bred. The saying i like what I like. A good sensimelia sativa of certain strains os best. Most weed now is stoner/Indica Heavy. I like a head high not stoned high n I find that is harder to obtain regularly. As for strength today's weed is stronger but that doesn't make it better. Long lasting mellow happy high.

@@ryanwells5035 the reason for the takeover of the market by indica strains is simple: their quick lifespan makes them easier to work with and more profitable than sativas. With the short flowering times of Afghan indica hash plants, American and European growers quickly realized they could get the crop in before cold/wet weather outdoors, and the economic part really came into play because you can get 3 or 4 harvests out of an indoor grow each year instead of one.

Then I recommend THCA Hemp. It’s high CBD, low THC. It’s legal in almost all 50 states due to the 2018 farm bill, therefore you can even have it shipped to your mailbox! The outdoor has that classic weed look, smell, etc.

Took 3 grams on my second trip and the visuals were almost nonexistent, but my god it was by far the most enlightening experience of my life

It’s super sad that we have to be so secretive about it. It’s part of Mother Earth. Not man-made like alcohol or meth.

[mycelium_doc_ ] Sell's psychs•

Tried shrooms two weeks ago only 2.5 grams and it was the most relieved and self accepting I’ve felt in a long time.

@@amywilson7087 Where to contact him? Is it IG?

Thats what I thought too

Y’all are tripping

I'm with you 100%

A pin, a book and a glass and you were good to go.

Exactly. Weed these days is loud, you just go around smelling like a skunk but really no actual buzz and then a headache. Back in my time Columbian Gold 🧡 you would have the giggles and munchies. None of the weed today does that,it just makes your eye balls feel bulging,that's about it

It almost seemed like they wanted to when Cheech's "Cousin Red" showed up.

Exactly my experience except the better weed began in the late 70's not the early 80's. The price jumped from C$20/oz to C$60/oz but it was worth it, the quality was so much better. In the 70's hash and hash oil were also very popular.

@@mortygoldmacher I was referring to what bud was available in the Chicago area. Your right, the better bud came earlier in Calif and west coast. Toke on brother!

@@mortygoldmacher Higher THC content weed's been around longer than that but access to was restricted. Personally, I'd rather smoke the kind of weed I used to smoke in the 70s I paid $10 a lid for but I don't know where to get any. I prefer a mild buzz.

Ditch weed is hemp. We called the weed you speak of dirt weed. Most of those other types of weed usually came from Mexico too but the growers put a little more effort into it.

Not too many 100% Indica strains or 100% sativa strains but just a whole bunch of hybrid.

i'm amazed he even survived to reach his 40's I honestly would've lost a fortune if i had bet on that in the early 2000's...

Righttt

@@dustinbirkez8321 not if you're an addict it makes it easier to buy drugs dummy

This aint steevo this is knockoff ville.They prob jhonnies glasses.

If it got you high it was for sure a female, and with "sinsimella" you mean "sin semilla"? "sin semilla" means "with no seed" in spanish, so weed with no seeds

@@EloteCakeArt that's exactly what I meant

You were smoking the yellow leaves ?!?! Hahahaha holy fuck man there’s like .01% THC in a water leaf if you were getting high off those you coulda got high off of anything 😂

@@benm38 it was early 70s - Mexican weed was what we smoked when there was no homegrown- $20 ounces - the good ol' days - getting high off of anything? I wish that were the case now

@@benm38 not true back then all weed came from Mexico or south America these sativas didn't bud because of the amount of light hours but the age of the plant. Sativas back then we're sticky resin plants no frost. The leaves definitely got you high.

This guy, wtf ,,,, Tommy Chong knows wtf he's talking about...

tbf they changed growing weed by selecting genetics, so what he is saying in the video that it is the same plant and cannot change is just false. You can selectively modify the genes of the plant to get more THC out of it... we have known this for years

@@liljohn8797 They select the best and rebreed those plants to try to keep those traits, or use cloning, the genes arent being modified, the genes were always there, but certain factors turn certain parts of the genome on and off. And tbf humans have done this with almost every plant in existence for thousands of years, even with weed, it's nothing new, its just much better documented now and more people are doing it. Back in the day, most people just grew shit Bush weed, but it doesn't mean there weren't people using selective breeding and cloning to get higher thc/cbd/size whatever.

Much more has changed other than cleaning and curing. Super grows with co2 tanks, nutrients got balanced and precise, hydroponics and indoor growing became popular (80’s), with that hybrids and autos came about. Saying nothing changed is like saying gmo’s and F1 hybrids don’t exist. 100 years from now you’ll be able to grow a ounce in 2 months

@@brly4542 It is genetically modified. Just like tomatoes. You think they didn't tamper with the genes? How else would you get weed that tastes like cheese or other specific traits. And even the methods you mentioned are still altering the genetic makeup of the plant. They are even specifically tuned to grow in a shorter time period, from 3 months down to 2 and it's getting even shorter. Tommy Chung is just a boomer here who has no idea what he's talking about. Not denying his og status as a smoker, but listening to him like he's some god is the same thing as thinking Snoop Dogg is a professional botanist cuz he's been smoking his brains out for the last 50 years. He's not, he's just a rich guy that smokes lots of weed and is famous so people assume he knows shit.

@@highhat5229 100 years? You already have weed with 2 month growth cycles.

100 percent fact no cheese like old school cheese

I agree and the black hash you could buy was crazy good, and plentiful in 80s 90s now it's all repressed garbage! Also the buds then just seemed to hit harder especially if you could get the good Laser lettuce aka hydro!

Good one lol

I did like Kind, white rhino, AK-47, fruity pebbles and especially train wreck from that era. That was one of the most innovative times in the history of domestic production here in the United States.

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