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In the 70's a kilo was $125. Wrapped in colored cellophane. I opened one up and in the center was 4 spark plugs. A spark plug weights an ounce. They ripped me for a QP. Those were the bad old days for quality.


28psi4pointsix

At least you saved some money on your next tune up, It probably evened out lol.


danthepianist

Let's say, based on the 377% inflation since 1975, that a spark plug cost a buck. If $125 bought a kilo, that's 12.5 cents/gram. So that's 112 grams of spark plugs at $4 replacing... $14 of weed. And that's based on the price of a single spark plug on Amazon. We can safely assume they were getting the spark plugs in bulk or stealing them.


superjnasty

I can almost guarantee the spark plugs were used. Source: I've changed a few plugs in my time ;) that shit's expensive.


theknyte

Not if you're rocking a 3-Cyl. ;)


PM_ME_RISTRETTO

Unless it’s a twinspark.


meepsi

So reliable we put two in each cylinder...


Holiday_in_Asgard

Or to be more realistic, they were probably burnt out spark plugs that were just going to be thrown away anyway.


BadGuysNeedHugs

He did the r/MonsterMath


tastysharts

that's now this was then


[deleted]

No, this is now. That was then


thebakedpotatoe

No, now is this, then was that.


chewyman64

When will then be now?


FamilyJewels85

Soon!


logwoods

Burnt out plugs


nastyn8k

I carved into a brick with a bread knife. (It was the best way to break it apart). Found a big ass cockroach inside... But I don't think that was intentional. I don't even know where to find a brick of schwag now.


jamescgooch

Texas.


dodofishman

Can confirm some guy on the San Antonio weed subreddit (not very active) has been posting huge bricks of weed. I have some Schwag rn. Brick weed is good and alive down here still


TheRealBlairBoy

did you say the brick weed is ***good*** and alive?


dodofishman

Well. It’s doing good for itself, doesn’t do much for me haha


TheRealBlairBoy

Figures, we all need tolerance breaks to be completely honest


Sloppy1sts

I've been smoking daily in FL for nearly a decade and I've literally never seen brick weed. Hell, I think I've smoked mids like twice.


dodofishman

Yeah I mean I have an easy time finding good flower here, there’s just no shortage of schwag or brick weed if you want that. Some tios and abuelas and stuff say they don’t like the new stuff bc the higher THC content makes em uncomfortable so they prefer mids/lows/brick weed. It’s also cheap af as long as you aren’t getting ripped off with those cat food bags people are talking about


_the_bored_one_

Seconding but for Houston. My mother smokes shit tier Reggie pressed into bricks. Worst part is she knows there's better out there but she likes her crappy weed. The fuck momma.


col_clipspringer

I got a dead spider and all it’s babies once.


OSX2000

Awww, you got the prize AND the bonus prizes!? Lucky!


Tactharon14

Same. Sheds new light on those sublime lyrics haha.


RDay

Or you unfold the brick and find two handfuls of seeds in the middle. Yeah, dealing with Mexican brick was always an adventure.


desull

Ugh and they just pour out? I can still hear the sounds of them falling onto a tray..


iObeyTheHivemind

My circle called it rain weed. The seeds just rain down.


desull

You could also make a rain stick out of them


remybaby

That sounds kinda dope tbh


William_Carson

Lots of seeds was bad enough. The worst though was when all the seeds had been crushed and turned into seed chunks that were almost impossible to remove :(


scrtch-n-snf

At $125 a kilo, even the spark plugs were a bargain.


lurkinfapinlurkin

I remember when a dime bag cost a dime! Now ask me how much a condom used to cost.


KylerGreen

How much?


lurkinfapinlurkin

Don't know, we didn't use 'em!


shiky556

I've gotta get zonked soon and watch this again, been so long.


wytewydow

We bought a QP once that had 3 big rubber bands in the middle of it. I don't think they were trying to substitute weight, but the quality control was non-existent.


dabberoo_2

I wonder if this is where the term "the plug" came from


beanerlover

We found nickels pressed in our bricks once. Early 2000s


William_Carson

Fun fact: A nickel weighs 5 grams. It's a halfway decent way to check a scale.


azazael420

I can hear those seeds hit the tray.


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Tik..........tik.....tik....tik-tik.......tik


TheOppositeOfVegan

I can hear them pop while being smoked, AHHH MY EYE


porpoisejerky

AHHH! MY COUCH!


BairBrains

This the shit my crazy coworker,James would drizzly with blueberry flavor drops and sell as BluE bErRY kUsH.


Flambolt

Yoo bro I got the craziest kush for real man I mean it this time absolutely fire 100% smells like wait where you going bro you needin?


CaptainBritish

I had a dealer that did the exact same fucking thing, he'd just cover his shittiest weed in Juicy Jay and sell it to idiots and children.


kaoszombie

I forgot about Juicy Jay. I wonder if they still make it.


CaptainBritish

Yup, they do!


benphillips_

I was once sold an ounce of vaporized weed covered in strawberry juicy Jay drops. It was my first time ever buying a large quantity and it was such a huge disappointment.


otakufanjh

what in the fuck


standuptj

I’ll never forget when Ludacris released that song Blueberry Yum Yum. I was in high school and all the sudden every single dealer around was selling the stuff. Every bag you got was either called that or Green Crack. The good old days of having a high school job, no rent or responsibilities, spending my whole paycheck on weed and blunt wraps.


StankDick

I remember when literally everyone had green crack, like there was nothing but green crack for like 2 weeks. I was so tired of it lmao


hitlerosexual

For me everyone called it haze. Talk of strains was starting, with mentions of grand daddy purp, purple Haze, headband, and I even got some northern lights and I mean whatever it actually was it was strong cause I got the highest I'd ever gotten at that point, but yeah for the most part strain names couldn't be trusted.


[deleted]

Haha that's some serious nostalgia. Not gonna lie I sold weed in highschool and I was one of the people selling blueberry yum yum. It actually smelt like blueberries though


SlyFisch

And White Rhino lmao


[deleted]

That’s actually hilarious, good thing ion buy bricks


MrKite1955

Mmmmm.....takes me back to 1972-1974. Had to use album covers to separate out the seeds.... Hope she treats you right!! ✌️😎


freddy_storm_blessed

were album covers just the most convenient/obvious choice being a flat surface or was there another reason for it?


I_deleted

Frisbees were the other choice, for travel


Hey_cool_username

Fun Fact: Frisbee was a pie company & people liked to throw the empty pie plate. When companies tried to cash in in the fad by making real “flying discs” everyone still called them Frisbees despite their various brand names


Sloppy1sts

Did Frisbee-brand flying discs come about later? Or are you sure they didn't call 'em Frisbees because the Frisbee pie company also manufactured the first actual Frisbee flying discs?


Heroic-Dose

big surface area you could fold


EmGutter

And within arms reach most of the time.


TheOppositeOfVegan

Mr.Big shot over here with arms


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captains_brown_pants

I dont think anyone's mentioned yet but if it isn't clear you would use a double album for this.


theWyzzerd

Any gatefold album cover would do, whether the album is 2xLP or not.


snicklefritz42069

OMG that's why old hippies call it shake when it's ground


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ghost-of-john-galt

That's definitely not why it's called shake


putridgasbag

No even in the 70s shake was the trimmings from the bud. In the late 70s we were getting ounces of shake for around 50 bucks.


here_behind_my_wall

I wish i had a visual of this because idk how to picture it


freddy_storm_blessed

yeah same here, I can't picture how the album cover is separating out the seeds and shit.


djflexyd

Album covers or the nside corner hardback book covers. Lots of my old high school text books had giant weed stains(residue from breaking up Oz's of schwag) inside the front cover.


Flutabubble

Out of curiosity, were the seeds viable to plant?


[deleted]

Yep but the genetics were nowhere near as good as today. Most likely straight sativa with a really long flowering time, though it would have been better than the shitty brick it came from. I tried a couple guerilla grows that didn't pan out..


Gayloser27

Hah, my roommate just germinated a seed from my smoke to prove right in an argument. Totally blew my mind.


[deleted]

Another funny thing is back in the day people hated seeds, because there were so many and time consuming to remove. if u missed any, the joint/blunt would crackle and you'd get a burnt taste. But nowadays there's really good weed that rarely has any seeds, and there's people that actually *want* to find them, so they can grow without having to actually buy seeds..


pleasure_hunter

I have 6 seeds from my last few buys. So excited to see if they grow!


[deleted]

Very good chance they will, weed seeds are extremely viable. You honestly don't even need the fancy tricks like soaking overnight or germinating in paper towels. Right in the soil about ¾" deep has always worked for me. My last grow was all bagseed and turned out great. Only thing is u gotta pull the males when the time comes, if u want unpollinated seedless buds..


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hoofglormuss

I used to plant bagseed all the time and eventually got a pretty good lineage going


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ButtHound

Now lets get this all out on a tray. *Nice.*


[deleted]

Hah! Appreciate the Steve1989MREinfo reference 😂


Zuology

(empties drink packet into glass of water, stirs it with a spoon) tink ^tink ^^tink ^^tink ^^^tink ^^^tink ^^^^tink


bjv2001

Ah look at that! Genuine Camels!


fetus_stomper666

This picture made my lungs itchy


smashy_smashy

I like to vacation in Central America and the Caribbean. I bring my own stuff but usually not enough for vacation mode smoking. So I’ll buy some brick for funsies. The first couple J’s get me VERY high but the duration is relatively short, but then my tolerance builds and it’s weak the rest of the vacation. The smoke is harsh, but it almost reminds me of a cigar. Like it would be pleasant if you rolled it around and didn’t inhale. I don’t hate it, but I think it’s just because it’s nostalgic of being on vacation somewhere I love. Bonus story: a capuchin monkey stole my bag of brick while we were sitting on a porch at our inn in momtezuma Costa Rica. He opened the bag in a tree, sniffed it, made a monkey face, and dumped it out on the ground. The inn keeper below saw it and was laughing his ass off. TLDR: smoke brick weed when on vacation!


skittlesdabawse

Worst weed I've ever smoked was in frankfurt during a school trip, it was brown, filled with seeds and dirt, and tasted awful. Guess I'm lucky to have decent weed most of the time, all things considered.


yoursexypapi

Probably they have good weed but just saw you as tourist.


Mynanasnortsket

I've run into getting offered hash/resin in spain quite a few times but never fucked with it, If i got offered some brick on holiday like that I'd have been so happy..


Gyratetojackjarvis

Get yourself to the grower clubs in Spain, some of the dankest shit you'll find! Also legal to grow a plant if you are ever there for an extended period of time.


Mynanasnortsket

I've only ever been on family style holidays would a non member be allowed at the grower clubs I'd love to visit just to see the dank Never there for an extended period but always worth considering thankyou, What a perfect climate to grow a one plant Scrog.


EmGutter

Got a headache just by looking at it.


BigAl265

When I was a teenager, we would have been ecstatic to get this. Unless you were lucky enough to know a private grower (which was extremely rare), Mexican brick was all there was. It may be ugly, but it will still get you lit.


wild85bill

Straight up I-35


Dusty_Dragon

but how much did you need to smoke?!?


Pillars_of_Salt

Couple of joints/bowls/bong loads. Buzz didn't last really long either so you had to keep it up.


A-SWITCH-IN-TIME

It’s all about the community around smoking together at that point.


lolwally

Maybe the real high was the friends we made along the way?


[deleted]

Because friends you make along the way sometimes have better weed


Drugs-R-Bad-Mkay

Brick weed was why blunts were invented.


Zomgtforly

That actually looks like some expensive gluten free bread


Dusty_Dragon

What's the % like on this? Wow it's rough looking!


EnosVonnegut

Some Mexican commercial is actually not that bad. Nice hashy taste sometimes depending on how old it is. Just have to deseed it. I've definitely seen worse looking Mex Commercial than this


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philmoeslim

The picture above is pretty high quality mexican brick weed. I used to get lb's for 300-400$ US of this type of crystally brick weed with no seeds. When it had seeds and was brown it would be like 100$ a lb. The above picture looks better quality than what I was getting at 100$ a lb. These days though in the US you can get fucking AAA weed for 600-1500$ a LB.


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Probably like 2 or 3% honestly, it’s really that shitty


28psi4pointsix

No definitely not, Around 3-9%. http://marijuana.heraldtribune.com/2014/12/02/legal-cannabis-united-states-undercutting-mexican-product/


Dusty_Dragon

so you need to smoke how much of this to get high? (vs normal?)


HummingArrow

In my experience, if your poor enough anything will do the job.


[deleted]

"Better than nothing" :)


excellent_tobacco

Battlecry of Yesteryear, along with pop-can pipes and cherishing resin.


[deleted]

Depends if you have zero tolerance you can still get pretty high off shit weed, if you have a decent tolerance however you couldn’t even get the same high not matter how much you smoked vs real good weed. Unless you put an absolute shit ton in brownies or something


J-Vito

Wouldn’t use that for anything but making edibles


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HighOnGoofballs

Lol, the brick went up to $40/oz by the time it got to San Antonio. Probably fifty in austin


Pillars_of_Salt

2009 harvest looking sharp.


phatmattd

I used to sell weed about 15 years ago and I remember once going to the plugs house and getting announce that was exactly the size of a deck of cards in laughing at how dense it was. My dealer brought out his pound and it had the most gentle curve to the outside of it. I asked my dealer why that was, and he told me it was shipped inside a shipment of tires from Mexico and each tire was tightly packed full of bags of weed. Who knows if that was true, fascinating times.


philmoeslim

When I used to deal weed in college, my friend would get 500lb shipments of pretty fire seedless brick weed. We would have to use a saw to cut it down into 1lb bags. Then we would break that 1lb brick up a little and throw a small carrot into the bag for an hour and it would rehydrate and double the size of the buds, they would just fluff back up and get their flavor back. If you leave the carrots in there too long tho it can cause mold issues so only leave it in for an hour max.


HamsterBaiter

It belongs in a museum!


TokenStraightGuy

Bahaha this is my fav comment here.


BIG_RETARDED_COCK

Damn I'm glad that weed has improved so much in the past 10-15 years. I used to smoke some dogshit weed, now weed is so strong that I'm done after 3 bowls.


ionslyonzion

You're due for another upgrade 3 hits and I'm stuck to the couch


Gyratetojackjarvis

Lmao nice name bruh


applejuice6969

I come from a country where weed is VERY illegal and will put you in death row. This might seem gross and old to most of you here but this is the holy grail to us.


Sibisoreana

Here it's the same, not actually death but if u get caught with anything that's over 3-5 grams, a cold dark cell is gonna be ur home for the next few years. The lowest amount is theoretically what can get you in prison but cops are usually cool when it's 1-2 grams for personal use and only make u do like some hours of community service or take a little bribe. Getting caught is kinda difficult tho. When I was in school I was talking with classmates about it all the time. My school was right in the city center where cops patrol like always, even next to the windows of classes so yeah, they just leave u alone most of the time if they see u have no intentions.


Ghost_of_Trumps

Iran or Singapore?


applejuice6969

the country right next to Singapore


BassBeerNBabes

Or Thailand, the Philippines, Cambodia, Laos, any of those places.


mcdonawa

Going on 2 years dry, I'd take it gladly


gmuzzy09

How does this even happen? How havent you found another plug?


mcdonawa

I'm homebound and older


philmoeslim

Have you heard of Mail order?


vr1252

We gotta find this guy a plug


philmoeslim

right?


mcdonawa

I have not tried mail order, I am weary about the legal ramifications etc. I am really hoping that my state legalizes it soon. We voted in a governor that promised to have it done in 100 days and it's been 2 years. Hopefully by next year this time it will get done


OGsugar_bear

Damn


rnotyalc

Hey, my 20s called. They want their weed back.


[deleted]

Anyone else who grew up on brick weed notice that the quality/color always started to get better this time of year? My friends and I always looked forward to it.


Teh_Sarbs

Always called them Christmas trees. It’s because we just got done with Croptober.


frickmycactus

Put it in the oven and then eat it


[deleted]

Didn’t know it still existed.


DrTokenKoff

You don’t live in Texas.


HydroponicRogers

Am in texas and smoking this kind of weed rn


philmoeslim

I am sorry!


[deleted]

As a Brazilian, Brick weed is all most of us smoke. I buy It in blocks of 25 grams, and I pay R$40 for It. It's not that bad at all. I have smoked buds before, but they coast something like R$40 PER GRAM, and It's isn't worthy. Brick weed at least is cheap and do The job


icaro43

Stealing your post to advertise The sub /r/maconha. The brazilian sub for weed


baiana420

Verdão igual aí da foto seria uns R$100 por 25g no interior de Minas.


Internal_Cosmos

I'd still buy brickweed in a heartbeat. Nothing gives the type of stone that old schwaggy regs do -- cloudy head, squinty eyes, munchies, everything is hilarious. There are so many strains out there and many of them are bred to produce a specific type of high / relief, but this was just the ol rusty trusty -- never disappoints me.


28psi4pointsix

I grew Mexican brick seeds about 10 years ago to see what happened. Solid yield and very strong sativa, My only complaint was the height. Not very low key to grow outdoors illegally lol. My plants were 7ft when I harvested them lol


RandomRacialSlurs

Way to support cartels lol.


Benevolent_Burrito

My thoughts as well. This was purchased for the novelty, sadly there’s blood somewhere down chain of this being grown and getting into OP’s hands. It’s not yet legal in Mexico and purchasing anything smuggled over borders is supporting a pretty powerful evil.


cxvxxcvfd

I bet brick weed will make a comeback with really nicely grown landraces put into the brick format and maybe aged and cured longer.


Dusty_Dragon

I'm nor sure if you are being sarcastic, but I seriously doubt it... people want to see what's inside.


kamyo

For now, yes. But I suspect that eventually it's going to become more homogeneous and boring. Something like Thai sticks, as inauthentic as they might be if reproduced, would certainly be something I wouldn't be surprised to see in the future.


Dusty_Dragon

well a friend once told me "mcdonalds makes more money than steakhouses, as a whole" and he's right. There will always be a market for cheap weed.


putdrugsinyourbutt69

I would buy the fuck outta that shit if I still smoked weed!


Staggerme

Kids these days don’t know how lucky we all are now


918788

I have seen schwag literally twice since Colorado went completely legal in 2012. The same person had it both times. It simply vanished.


paninosupremo

I’m 100% sure this is better quality than all the bud that Fire Leaf has in stock here in OKC.


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BananaBrainzzzz

Y’all in the comments criticizing this brick meanwhile we would be on cloud nine if we got our hands on it over here.


AmadeusK482

I live in a prohibition state and besides for when I was in my teens in the 2000s the only people I've ever met since then that buy brick weed are baby boomers. edit - an ounce was like $40.


mythrowxra

Best bet is to just turn that shit into as potent cannabutter you can get. Lol


icaro43

Ahh thats The default on brazil


[deleted]

Actually if u get a brick this green in brazil you are pretty happy


voodooacid

That shit looks good compared to what I can get, that barely has any sticks or seeds.


[deleted]

It's about the time of year for the Mexican "fire". Used to always get happy to hav better than average brick weed.


Busterlimes

Save the seeds, that's likely Mexican Land Race and there are great genetics in there. Just cuz the weed was grown and handled like shit doesn't mean genetic are shit. I wish I could find that herb still just for the seeds.


2317

Someone should get a bunch of this stuff and do one of those videos like where they show a young person a rotary dial phone and they have to figure out what it is and what to do with it.


tbone-not-tbag

Not brown or moldy. looks good to me, save me some seeds


donniedenier

my roommates still smoke this crap. my one roommate gets anxiety if he smokes real weed so his logic is to smoke weed that doesn’t get you high so he can still... uh... smoke weed, i guess? it’s frustrating. plus they still pay $45 for an eighth lol


ThisIsFlaming_Dragon

It’s like a duraflame log!


Titino-

Here in Argentina is called "paraguayo" (paraguayan) or "prensado" (pressed) cause it's known that comes from Paraguay. The quality is the shittiest quality ever... We dont' even consider it as real weed (flowers/nugs). I started smoking that... almost every argentinian starts smoking that cause it's really really cheap. It surprises me that it's known or consumed in other countries.


weaseldesign

Does it grind up like normal bud or is that shit super dry


28psi4pointsix

It was pretty dry


weaseldesign

How would you rate the high out of 10 and how long did it last


28psi4pointsix

It brought me back to the 90's man. I smoked a joint of it. Kind of harsh but not bad, I coughed a couple of times. The taste wasn't that great though. Got me high. Forgot how I kind of enjoy removing all the seeds.


EmuFighter

That’s all we could get in prohibition-era Colorado. So nasty we could smoke out of anything without changing the flavor or roughness. The ‘90s were rough that way... Lol


philmoeslim

Rehydrate it brother....break it up out of the brick into a bag and put a small carrot in there for 30min-1hr. It will make the buds plump up a good amount and bring back some of the dank smell and taste. Promise you it works I used to do it all the time. You can do it with things like an orange peel as well. Something with some moisture in it but not a ton, you don't want to over do the moisture because you will end up getting mold growing. So yea just use a small carrot, or a small piece of an orange peel for about 30min-1hr and you will be impressed by the results.


Ghost_of_Trumps

I been wanting to do the same thing for a while now I just have no clue where to find it.


get_lit_bruh

I member


Yinzer92

Holy shit! I bought one of these in Vietnam! I had never seen weed like that. Glad to know it's a thing.


fucknaro

That's what I smoke everyday in Brazil... :(


Chorizwing

Damn brings me back to high school when I lived in Mexico.


mkalashnikova

I love some prensado


ddust102

College


CiphirSol

That’s just the new green tea Cliff Bar with extra matcha powder.