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Why is a bag of weed always $10 (man)?

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Re: Why is a bag of weed always $10 (man)?

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A small correction: "kine bud", not "kind bud".

Yeah, I've heard it both ways - I don't know what the original origin of that term is.

I don't know much about pot, but the phrase "Da Kine" is a term of high praise in Hawaiian Pidgin, possibly originating from native Hawaiian.

Re: Why is a bag of weed always $10 (man)?

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The answer is actually in the question. The questioner is accustomed to paying $10 for one gram. There was a time when the traditional "dime bag" was 1/10th ounce, or nearly three grams. The $10 price point has "stuck," but the grocery shrink ray strikes all products. Remember when a $1 candy bar was twice today's size?

When I was a kid in the mid-70's a "lid" cost $25. A lid was a pound of weed. Both the quality and cost shot up in the next decade. Disclaimer: I don't smoke pot, so this is second hand smoke, so to speak. But, there were so many hippies around where I grew up that I literally thought patchouli was what people smelled like when then hadn't bathed in a week.

I'm pretty sure a lid was an ounce. A pound for $25 is too low, during the 70s. That's enough for a High schooler to smoke 1 1-gram joint everyday for 2 school calendar years on just a couple of days worth of lunch money.

Re: Why is a bag of weed always $10 (man)?

#53
post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A small correction: "kine bud", not "kind bud".

Yeah, I've heard it both ways - I don't know what the original origin of that term is.

From urban dictionary...

Kine is a hawaiian words that translates to "the one". It is used to express like or show praise towards something or someone. The term has been popularized in the continental United States in reference to potent Cannabis.

Re: Why is a bag of weed always $10 (man)?

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post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A small correction: "kine bud", not "kind bud".

Yeah, I've heard it both ways - I don't know what the original origin of that term is.

"Kine" means Excellent in Hawaiian, Which would make more sense than saying Kind/Friendly bud.

Highest rated urban dictionary definitions for "Kind Bud" also state and correct this common mistake.

Re: Why is a bag of weed always $10 (man)?

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This doesn't make sense because it's not true. I was an avid pot smoker in my college days (long time ago, now) and even over the relatively small span of a 3 year time period I paid everything for a quarter-ounce (~7 grams) from $10 ("ditch weed") to $400 (REALLY good stuff from Cali or Colorado). So I'm not sure what he's talking about with the $10/gram thing being some benchmark that's lasted decades. I know that'…

You really paid $400 for a 1/4oz? I have lived and bought weed all over the country for about a decade, and I have never seen a quarter oz for anything over ~130.. more often ~100-120 for the best weed.

Re: Why is a bag of weed always $10 (man)?

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When I was a kid in the mid-70's a "lid" cost $25. A lid was a pound of weed. Both the quality and cost shot up in the next decade. Disclaimer: I don't smoke pot, so this is second hand smoke, so to speak. But, there were so many hippies around where I grew up that I literally thought patchouli was what people smelled like when then hadn't bathed in a week.

I'm pretty sure a lid was an ounce. A pound for $25 is too low, during the 70s. That's enough for a High schooler to smoke 1 1-gram joint everyday for 2 school calendar years on just a couple of days worth of lunch money.

A lid is an ounce. My favorite pot-quantity terms are "slice" and "elbow".

A slice being an 1/8th of an ounce (as in a slice of pizza)

An elbow being a pound (as in 1 lb)

Re: Why is a bag of weed always $10 (man)?

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Is cannabis routinely cut, as hard drugs are? I can't imagine it would be terribly hard to find similarly-burning vegetation to dilute the amount of product in a fixed-weight bag at a level undetectable to the average buyer.

No, that's one of its advantages. It's pretty much impossible to "cut" it. This is what a cannabis bud looks like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macro_cannabis_bud.jpg You can't just throw some similarly looking vegetation in there without the buyer noticing. You could throw in low-grade hemp, but that's just as hard to grow, so it's of no benefit to the dealer. One thing you can do is to not dry it. The moisture…

You can use fertilizer and pesticides to artificially increase your yields, which is basically just as bad depending on what's being used.

Re: Why is a bag of weed always $10 (man)?

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is cannabis routinely cut, as hard drugs are? I can't imagine it would be terribly hard to find similarly-burning vegetation to dilute the amount of product in a fixed-weight bag at a level undetectable to the average buyer.

No, that's one of its advantages. It's pretty much impossible to "cut" it. This is what a cannabis bud looks like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macro_cannabis_bud.jpg You can't just throw some similarly looking vegetation in there without the buyer noticing. You could throw in low-grade hemp, but that's just as hard to grow, so it's of no benefit to the dealer. One thing you can do is to not dry it. The moisture…

"You could throw in low-grade hemp, but that's just as hard to grow, so it's of no benefit to the dealer."

I am not sure about that. Shouldn't low-grade hemp be cheaper in areas where it can be grown legally? After all, the risk of losing a harvest to law enforcement is lower.

Re: Why is a bag of weed always $10 (man)?

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post #3

$10 is how much a bag costs, how much a bag contains is the variable I would think. Kind of the opposite of gasoline.

The article doesn't talk about how much a bag costs. It talks about the price per gramme staying at $10.

That's because the article is wrong.
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