When I was in high school, late 1960’s, very early 70’s, my sinsimella dealer lived near Julian. He competed with a friend of ours from Fallbrook. Both had the best weed in California at the time. Most folks never even heard about “purple hairy” or knew how to grow polyploid flowers. And me and my friends had a monopoly on the pot trade for high school in La Canada / Flintridge. No one smoked dirt pot from across the border.
Never heard anything about apples or pies back then. The Hare Krishnas built a farm out there. But who knows what THEY were doing. lol
Ha! All the way over on the other coast I used to call it “Mexican dirtweed”. If I remember correctly, I was the first one in my neck of the woods to coin that phrase, probably 1968. I bough a bag that was supposed to be some kick as Jamaican, but it was Mexican junk and really did taste like dirt. “Grow yer own”.