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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)


$25 was a couple days worth of lunch money in the 70s?


Well, after you get through the two or three joints necessary to work through this stash before it goes stale the munchies hit real hard :)




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