A piece of canna-history: High Times Top 40 - 1977!!!

[CannaSir]

My, oh my, how times have changed! Check out what the 'killer diller' looked like 34 years ago!!

[True Playa]

Fuckin hell...kids these days (me) don't even know they're born!

[SloWhite]

FFS didnt anybody know how to trim back in the day...

[cant_think]

FFS didnt anybody know how to trim back in the day...

Looks like there'd be nothing but twigs left if they did...

[Grumblefoot]

Looks like bunk shwag to me...

[Uncle Ron]

Check out some of the schwag, notice the seeds?
I don't remember ever seeing such shitty weed in the 70's, except for propaganda pictures, quite like those above. These pics were probably taken just after a bust. Barely into flowering, except for the knocked-up ones...
Oh the memories of golden buds from Colombia and Brazil, and the tasty reds from Panama and Mexico.

Laters...

[CHELSEA_SMOKERS_SOCIETY]

Blooooody hell. Is this real!?

I guess in the 70's they liked their 'weed porn' badly shot and leafy. Much in the same way they liked their 'porn porn' badly shot and hairy

[CannaSir]

I guess in the 70's they liked their 'weed porn' badly shot and leafy. Much in the same way they liked their 'porn porn' badly shot and hairy

PMSL!

[True Playa]

On the real though, this is blatantly hunters cup entries...

[redeyezman]

Looks like someone wrote an article based on how they foresaw the market. Maybe "bunk articles" like this helped shaped our idea of what cannabis is to people who actually enjoy it. A few buds look ok... I imagine the writer/editor was just happy they all "looked different & had names" Hell, they might have just got seeds and grew them in the high times closet? Gotta think of the story behind the story here IMHO.

[geordiephil]

compared with whats flying round newcastle at the minute those 1977s classics look 100 times better

[Willjay]

We have come a long way with our horticultural skills, but I too fondly remember great bud back in the 70's

[TwoCanucks]

stuff now would blow a timewarped 70's puffer head off. BAMMO

[Uncle Ron]

stuff now would blow a timewarped 70's puffer head off. BAMMO

Nope, it doesn't, at least not with this 70's puffer.
I was given some Thai back in 1976-77 and this gear made me so high I thought I was tripping. Nothing since has come even close.
Curious thought - how can anyone say with certainty that today's weed is stronger than yesterday's when science is still discovering (and naming) chemical compounds found in cannabis? I for one would like to see scientific proof that weed of today is stronger than weed of yesterday, and not some rehashed he said/she said BS. Funny thing is, science and equipment used today wasn't available in the 70's, so I'm not sure how people can accurately compare gear of yesterday to gear of today.
Think purity.
Happy tokin'...

[redeyezman]

stuff now would blow a timewarped 70's puffer head off. BAMMO

Nope, it doesn't, at least not with this 70's puffer.
I was given some Thai back in 1976-77 and this gear made me so high I thought I was tripping. Nothing since has come even close.
Curious thought - how can anyone say with certainty that today's weed is stronger than yesterday's when science is still discovering (and naming) chemical compounds found in cannabis? I for one would like to see scientific proof that weed of today is stronger than weed of yesterday, and not some rehashed he said/she said BS. Funny thing is, science and equipment used today wasn't available in the 70's, so I'm not sure how people can accurately compare gear of yesterday to gear of today.
Think purity.
Happy tokin'...

If you smoke between then and now doesn't that kind of gradually improve you tolerance? Like tolerance inflation? I see your point Ron, and it is quite valid. I think the common sense argument is we have advancements/studies (even if they be unscientific growers making notes over the decades) of which strains/genetics give nice buzzes. Things have been documented like this above picture! This is why i say it was like the blueprint for a business model. Make it connoisseur like winery, more than valid examples of strains.