Yes,and there was aways Thai Sticks and Maui Wowie.
Hash and hash oil were good alternatives too as you mention.
Colombian Gold was plenty potent, and mostly what I saw on the Oregon coast. Of course, California sinsemilla was around, and the local homegrowns, There was a big bust of a shipment of Thai stick a bit south of here, and some of it ended up in circulation. Forty years after the fact, I ran into a commercial fisherman that said he found a bale of it floating offshore.