improvised thai stick

[oldfogey8]

yup. 7 and 8th grade(77 or 78) sounds right to me. the stick inside the thai sticks i got were like 1/8" square by about 8" long. smelled and smoked nothing like any brick weed i ever had. nice light green in color not the brown/gold/red of the brick/mexican weed we'd get in the northeast.

the 'beef' is the only hash i ever smoked that made me pass out. just once but i got such a head rush after doing 'hash under glass' that when i stood up, i passed out. lol!

 

[orangesunshine]

Mine was brown and gold possibly even went into 79

 

[oldfogey8]

maybe from dipping it it turned brown/gold? if i had hash oil, i think i would dip the sticks i made just for fun. no oil ...

 

[orangesunshine]

Naturally...we did chew on the sticks

Maybe in 79 we were smoking that Hackerman stuff as I vaguely remember that packaging as well

 

[P Jammers]

Straight from Wiki

Thai stick is a form of cannabis from Thailand that was popular during the late 1960s and 1970s. It consisted of premium buds of seedless marijuana which were skewered on stems. Several rows of fiber found in the stalk of the marijuana plant were then used to tie the marijuana to the stem to keep it in place.[1] Thai stick bud may also be tied around bamboo sticks with a piece of string known as a “rasta hair.”

The Thai sticks exhibited considerably higher potency in comparison with other cannabis available in Western countries at the time. This added potency was rumored to be caused by the Thai sticks being dipped in opium. However, the more widely accepted reason is that Thai cannabis growers had for hundreds of years selected seeds from their strongest plants, which coupled with Thailand's long growing season, high temperatures and, rich volcanic soil, conspired to produce an exceptionally potent product. A number of reasons have been cited for the decline of the Thai stick; stricter policing of cannabis cultivation; dilution of traditional cannabis populations by earlier maturing, less psychoactive cultivars imported from Pakistan and Afghanistan; the burgeoning indoor growing industry in target markets; and the reduction of military troop transports (which was the primary means of export) between Thailand, particularly Bangkok, and the United States, at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.

In modern terminology, Thai stick often refers to marijuana tied to stem as documented above and then dipped into a hashish oil, a potent cannabis derivative which saturates the buds and lends to a stronger smoke. Some California cannabis clubs sell this product. Originally, this was a frequent practice of the 1970s with the actual Thai stick. There are still some surviving recipes from Cambodia where high quality marijuana and hash oil are used.

The stuff I remember was dipped in hash oil, but there was plenty of opium around in those days as well.

 

[Riverine45]

I know I made some one time and I hand rolled to form it around the stems I had then tied it with some fibers I pulled or the outer layer on the stem but I did all this with the wet fresh bud and when they dried they looked like they had been dipped in opium because they had black sticky resin all over from me rolling and forming the buds..

 

[ziggyross]

Well this may sound kinda odd after all those good descriptions. I thought the stick was tide to a newly forming bud and the bud grew around it. The reasoning that the stick would irritate the bud into forming more THC.

 

[mrnice]

What fabulous parental guidance, lol.
Mrnice

 

[yooper420]

Had nice long reply typed up, went to post it, guess I was timed out as I got a message saying to sign in. So I signed in, came back here and everything had been deleted, not saved. Very frustrating.

 

[oldfogey8]

i prefer sativa's for the most part. my sons had never had a mostly sativa plant until this thai. some people don't even identify the smell of the smoke as being cannabis because everyone smokes indica dominant strains these days. it smells like i remember the smoke of good weed back in the 70's when i first started smoking.

 

[yooper420]

Straight from Wiki

Thai stick is a form of cannabis from Thailand that was popular during the late 1960s and 1970s. It consisted of premium buds of seedless marijuana which were skewered on stems. Several rows of fiber found in the stalk of the marijuana plant were then used to tie the marijuana to the stem to keep it in place.[1] Thai stick bud may also be tied around bamboo sticks with a piece of string known as a “rasta hair.”

The Thai sticks exhibited considerably higher potency in comparison with other cannabis available in Western countries at the time. This added potency was rumored to be caused by the Thai sticks being dipped in opium. However, the more widely accepted reason is that Thai cannabis growers had for hundreds of years selected seeds from their strongest plants, which coupled with Thailand's long growing season, high temperatures and, rich volcanic soil, conspired to produce an exceptionally potent product. A number of reasons have been cited for the decline of the Thai stick; stricter policing of cannabis cultivation; dilution of traditional cannabis populations by earlier maturing, less psychoactive cultivars imported from Pakistan and Afghanistan; the burgeoning indoor growing industry in target markets; and the reduction of military troop transports (which was the primary means of export) between Thailand, particularly Bangkok, and the United States, at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975.

In modern terminology, Thai stick often refers to marijuana tied to stem as documented above and then dipped into a hashish oil, a potent cannabis derivative which saturates the buds and lends to a stronger smoke. Some California cannabis clubs sell this product. Originally, this was a frequent practice of the 1970s with the actual Thai stick. There are still some surviving recipes from Cambodia where high quality marijuana and hash oil are used.

The stuff I remember was dipped in hash oil, but there was plenty of opium around in those days as well.

Thanks for researching and posting this info. Spent 2 years in Vietnam (6-68 to 6-70) and never came across "Thai sticks" there, only after I got home. If the sticks had been dipped in uncut opium, people would have OD`ed and worse. Did use this opium several times, nothing to mess with. Take one toke, hold it in and before you exhale you can feel yourself getting buzzed, real buzzed. Newbie users would puke and then enjoy the buzz. Way too addictive for me. Do not mess with uncut opium. Any opium I was around here was far from uncut. Matter of fact it was not even good.

 

[AluminumMonster]

So how did your sons like the bud'N'stake? I know I'd hit it.................a few times

 

[oldfogey8]

it is the same smoke they have been smoking for a while(which is some pretty interesting smoke i might add). it was just bag appeal i was looking for. i did the trick. their buddies would love to meet their 'uncle from new york' that they get their weed from. their 'uncles' rule is a strict no sell rule. they can share all they want but 'he; does not want them selling anything...

btw - the thai has been curing for for over 3 months and is now quite tasty. i attached some pics of both plants. nothing in comparison to some of the awesomeness i see on here but i am new and my grow setup is pretty weak.

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