Posted on 06/27/2004 6:18:16 PM PDT by wagglebee
Where I come from that's a pinjoint. Somebody's holding out.
So you're saying that today's kids just feel more stoned because there's nothing much in their heads to soak up the pot?
'Kids Schooled 25yrs ago AT LEAST knew their Nation's History (& It's relationship to--& Development From Other Nations)
'Kids Schooled 25 years ago understood the PROFOUND DIFFICULTIES that "America" overcame, & they were taught to have a "Sense of Perspective" about the Cultural Problems that created such place as Syria, Iran, & Iraq.
Our Current "Public Educational System" is nearly "Devoid of" "Historical Fact;" it is so "Infected With "PC,'" that our Children have "Tuned It Out!!"
Children detect "BS" better than Most of Us!
We owe our Children FAR Better than we have "Delivered" in our "Public School Systems!"
Doc
Interesting. Well, I'd suspected as much for decades, just wasn't sure. Glad to know empirical, peer-reviewed, journal-published research confirms it wasn't just me. I feel a lot better now.
Do you have proof for this claim?
Just know what it cost when I was younger and I've heard what its costing now. What type of proof are you looking for?
Same here ... but the rise I'm aware of doesn't amount to "skyrocketing" and may not even have kept pace with inflation.
"Since 1992, [marijuana] price has fallen by 16 percent" - National Bureau of Economic Research
I would question the validity of that.
Big Banbo
Feel free to post better numbers than those of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Couldn't resist the urge to throw some warmed-over propaganda, though irrelevent, into this discussion?
When I was in high-school and early college (about 20 years ago), marijauna was selling for about $100/ounce. I've talked with kids today who are paying about 5 times that amount, this is not just inflationary. On the other hand, I haven't touched the stuff in about 14 years, so I really don't care what it costs.
Standard commercial Mexican still sells for $80 to $120 an ounce where I live. According to testimony I heard the other day narcotics officers are buying it all the time for $800 a pound now. People paying four or five hundred for an ounce of the expensive stuff generally have more money than they have brains. Even taking into account the fact that part of what you pay for with the cheap stuff is seeds that you'll throw away, the expensive stuff is almost never anywhere close to four or five times as potent as the average bag of Mexican. The 30% THC stuff you hear about is exceedingly rare if it exists at all. The average THC content of sinsemilla on the streets is between 12% and 14% depending on whose study you are reading. That's around twice the potency of plain old Mexican Brick weed.
Well the kids I talk to are pretty dumb (and have way too much $), so they probably are being ripped off.
...ummmm... I forgot what I was going to reply...
We are around the same age except I might be a few years older than you. Pot cost around $100 an ounce by the early to mid eighties where I live too. But that was just for standard pot. You could probably find crummy homegrown shake for a good bit less back then, but there was also really expensive stuff around back then too. From what I hear some of sinsemilla is getting ridiculously expensive, but I can't imagine that it would be worth what it costs relative to the average commercial grade product. I think the really expensive stuff is a status symbol for a lot of these people. They call the regular stuff "schwag" and they're too good for it. I guess it's better than what was going on when I was in my late teens and early twenties. Back then pot in general was becoming the poor man's drug. Cocaine was the status symbol. Luckily that's changed somewhat.
Oh, don't be ridiculous. I remember what it was like 25 years ago and it...uh...what was the question again?
Doc
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