Comment on Make sure you know what your kid is getting themselves into
bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 week agoYeah, the Mexican dirt weed I used to get as a teenager, you could smoke half a joint by yourself and be buzzed.
I quit when I was 18, but then I moved to a legal state and I took one puff and was legitimately stoned for the rest of the day. Like, could barely control myself.
The modern stuff is super strong.
butwhyishischinabook@piefed.social 1 week ago
Okay but as someone who has smoked both before and after legalization, it’s true that you had to take what you could get, but shortly before legalization, while it was still illegal, is when concentrates took off. Part of the reason is that if my friends and I went in together on a big buy of flower that turned out to be weak, we would just turn it into concentrates and/or hash. The lack of selection fueled the use of concentrates.
The same(ish) thing happened a long time ago in North Africa with dukkah when nicotine was illegal, just like moonshine a century ago in the US. When something goes underground, concentrating the drug happens. It’s almost inevitable.