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

Posted: Fri 18th Nov 2011 04:47 am
by CannaSir
My, oh my, how times have changed! Check out what the 'killer diller' looked like 34 years ago!! :shock: :lol:


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

Posted: Fri 18th Nov 2011 01:05 pm
by True Playa
Fuckin hell...kids these days (me) don't even know they're born!

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

Posted: Fri 18th Nov 2011 01:37 pm
by SloWhite
FFS didnt anybody know how to trim back in the day... :lol: :lol:

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

Posted: Fri 18th Nov 2011 04:26 pm
by cant_think
SloWhite wrote:FFS didnt anybody know how to trim back in the day... :lol: :lol:
Looks like there'd be nothing but twigs left if they did...

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

Posted: Fri 18th Nov 2011 05:09 pm
by Grumblefoot
Looks like bunk shwag to me...

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

Posted: Fri 18th Nov 2011 05:18 pm
by 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...

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

Posted: Fri 18th Nov 2011 05:49 pm
by CHELSEA_SMOKERS_SOCIETY
Blooooody hell. Is this real!? :lol:

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 :D

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

Posted: Fri 18th Nov 2011 06:57 pm
by CannaSir
CHELSEA_SMOKERS_SOCIETY wrote:
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 :D
PMSL! :lol: :lol:

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

Posted: Sun 20th Nov 2011 01:12 pm
by True Playa
On the real though, this is blatantly hunters cup entries... :mrgreen:

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

Posted: Sun 20th Nov 2011 11:43 pm
by 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? :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Gotta think of the story behind the story here IMHO.

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

Posted: Mon 21st Nov 2011 12:21 pm
by geordiephil
compared with whats flying round newcastle at the minute those 1977s classics look 100 times better

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

Posted: Mon 21st Nov 2011 02:04 pm
by Willjay
We have come a long way with our horticultural skills, but I too fondly remember great bud back in the 70's

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

Posted: Sun 27th Nov 2011 01:28 am
by TwoCanucks
stuff now would blow a timewarped 70's puffer head off. BAMMO

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

Posted: Sun 27th Nov 2011 03:12 am
by Uncle Ron
TwoCanucks wrote: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'...

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

Posted: Sun 27th Nov 2011 03:37 am
by redeyezman
Uncle Ron wrote:
TwoCanucks wrote: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.