Live Stoner Chat 10 Strains From the '90s You Don't See Anymore

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Source : http://www.hightimes.com/read/retro-weed-10-strains-90s-you-dont-see-anymore

It’s officially 2015, and weed strains nowadays are as plentiful and colorful as those retro Jordan sneakers of yesteryear. There’s all kinds of Kushes here: Purple this and blue that, that hypebeasts salivate over whenever they hit the open market. But the truth of the matter is that I’m an old-school cat who lives for that OG shit. Sure, I love today’s genetically modified and engineered strains of ganja whose single purpose is to leave us coma-toasted and in a haze for days, but I’m a Kings County Viking (that's Brooklyn, to the rest of the world). I still light my "branches" with matches. That’s just how I do. And while I do live off that new-age leaf and appreciate what it brings to the table, I also miss the taste and smell of some of the original '90s bud. Here’s a list of the traumas I would love to see retro’ed in my hood for nostalgia’s sake…

Chronic

Made famous by the legendary Dr. D-R-E, Chronic weed was considered top-of-the-line tree stumps at a time when the only kind of weed that was available in my hood was stem-and-seeds-filled skunk, a.k.a. regs (as in “regulars” or oREGanos”). That Chron-Chron had us coughing up lungs to the extent where we swore we were able to breathe easier afterwards. Now that was the original medicinal marijuana.

Chocolate

This bittersweet bud would simply melt in your mouth and leave you with sticky hands. An absolute must for date nights, Chocolate Thai was known as an aphrodisiac amongst the stoner community. We’d puff on the Hershey to get some shotgun kisses from the missus and end the night with a Snickers to her kisser. It almost never failed.

Buddha

Puffing on Buddha used to bring peace and tranquility to the wildest of men. The thick yellow smoke of clarity was a sight to behold. Philosophies were thought up in project hallways, and stoners wrote all kinds of street rules to abide by. Legend has it Biggie wrote the 10 Crack Commandments while high on the Buddha lye.

Tyson

This was legendary simply because the weed was compressed and shaped into the form of a single dice. It was sold for one year in Do or Die Bed-Stuy before that spot got raided (a hex on the house of thy snitch! A hex, I say!). There were times when newbies would enter the Tyson cipher and weren't ready for what was about to hit 'em. Straight one-hitter quitter types. Rival spots tried to counter with “Holyfield,” but it was nowhere near as potent as the Champ.

Hydro

The original “Oh shit! There’s orange hairs and tiny crystals on the weed” weed. Until then, every single bud I’d ever seen was purely green or brown. So when Hydro hit the hood with the force of a tidal wave it left everyone wet, if not drenched, in its wake. We used to walk 10-deep to the spot for a single dime bag just to make sure no one pinched it on the way back to the block. That’s how fiended out we were for this product.

White Widow

No lie, I remember back in high school heads copping this specific kind of bud whenever they went to hookup with a certain shorty. She made men of boys, and boys of girls—she was wild. Not to mention that only one cat had White Widow in that hood, and thanks to that young lady, he was able to push a Land Cruiser by the end of that school year. Talk about burning rubber(s).

Pu-ree

Shout-outs to my Dominicans in Washington Heights who made this one of their signature products in the '90s. There was always debate as to whether or not Pu-ree was just Hydro renamed due to its similarities in both physical and “psychological” properties. Either way, it was a great product.

Northern Lights

The fuzzy fix. This was very hard to find, and if you did, the dimes were so skimpy you didn’t want to share because it was like having a few squares left in a public bathroom. You wouldn’t want to spare a single square if you had to get yourself right, would you? Neither did we. You’d have to have at the very least $5 on it if you wanted to enter the cipher and even then it would be a tough decision to make.

Mango Pina

As best as I can recall, this was the first fruit-flavored ganja strain in the mid '90s. It wasn’t particularly strong, but it delivered a mellow and relaxing state of mind whenever it was burned down.

Branson

The stuff legends wrote about. And when I say legends, I mean hip-hop legends. Notorious B.I.G., Redman, Rakim, etc. would spit a few bars about weed from Branson here and there in their cuts. I can’t say I’ve ever had the pleasure of tasting this legendary herb, but I do know that if it was good enough for hardcore hip-hop stoners to big-up in their songs, then this strain must have been off the charts!

 

[Chester]

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[armanidog]

Jamaican Lambsbread. Pure sativa. I originally smoked it in the 1970's but never saw it again until the 1990's. I see they are selling it these days as well. Bob Marley supposedly said it was his favorite strain.

 

[Spanglish]

Jamaican Lambsbread. Pure sativa. I originally smoked it in the 1970's but never saw it again until the 1990's. I see they are selling it these days as well. Bob Marley supposedly said it was his favorite strain.

That looks pure fire bro, makes you wonder though how many of these strains now with the same names are actually true to the original in terms of parentage, or there are just some seedbanks that piggy back off the name with their own crosses.

If you where smoking in the 70s you might like this one, is the top 40 strains from High Times 1977 edition. Not as pretty as the 90s offerings but sure there is some long lost parent genes to our modern day strains in there.

 

[Ronin]

Thanks for the flashback @Spanglish
Growing up in the NYC metro area I was lucky enough to have access to many of these strains back then.
Chocolate Thai was the most abundant at the time.
One strain that did not make the list for some unusual reason is Highland Oaxacan Gold.
I was blessed enough to have sampled this legendary strain back in the 90's.
To this day there has not been an equal.

 

[Spanglish]

Thanks for the flashback @Spanglish
Growing up in the NYC metro area I was lucky enough to have access to many of these strains back then.
Chocolate Thai was the most abundant at the time.
One strain that did not make the list for some unusual reason is Highland Oaxacan Gold.
I was blessed enough to have sampled this legendary strain back in the 90's.
To this day there has not been an equal.

Being a teen in the late 90s in the UK i never come across many of the strains as hash was getting more and more common in my part of the country as we moved into the millennium, White Widow was the creme de la creme for us then and that was the rare occasion we could get it other wise was soap bar, charas or badly grown bag seed.

But being heavily into US hip hop also through my teens just about all those strains where legendary to me and my friends back then, the kind of buds we would dream of as we picked seeds out of our over priced crap.

 

[armanidog]

That looks pure fire bro, makes you wonder though how many of these strains now with the same names are actually true to the original in terms of parentage, or there are just some seedbanks that piggy back off the name with their own crosses.

If you where smoking in the 70s you might like this one, is the top 40 strains from High Times 1977 edition. Not as pretty as the 90s offerings but sure there is some long lost parent genes to our modern day strains in there.

I remember a lot of those names in the article.
And I wonder if the Lambsbread I smoked in the 70's was the same I saw in the 90's. Until we can do a home DNA test, we have to trust the name and rely on our dreams of that high 20 years ago that were under different circumstances and when our minds were younger. Nostalgia is a good thing but I doubt its accuracy.

 

[Spanglish]

I remember a lot of those names in the article.
And I wonder if the Lambsbread I smoked in the 70's was the same I saw in the 90's. Until we can do a home DNA test, we have to trust the name and rely on our dreams of that high 20 years ago that were under different circumstances and when our minds were younger. Nostalgia is a good thing but I doubt its accuracy.

I recognised a couple from a old hippy i used to work with in the UK, he spent most of the 70s "discovering himself" and traveling the US and used to come out with some great old stories.

Nostalgia is a great way to look back on your life and let the past bring you some happiness as you get older, so i say as long as it was good weed and brought back some good memories then i very well could be the same, why let genetics and facts get in the way when it looks like weed, smokes like weed and brings back the old times.

 

[astronomy420a]

let me tell you a tale about smuggling lamb's bread out of jamacialate seventy's early eightie's we had a married couple, who both weighed 300 lb's and stood about 6ft. large people. they would fly down to jamacia, where they had long time friend's, they would personly pick out what top's they wanted, and press them in a trash compacter, until they had sheet's 1/2 inch thick, the they would use a seal a meal to suck all the air out till they had flat sealed package's, and they would mold the sheet's of lamby to conform with there body shape. and walk through custom's without the slightest hassle. this was and still is the best cannabis I have ever smoked, In over 50 year's of smoking is was so popular in boston that in the seventy's and eighty's it sold for $300.00 an ounce, and was already sold before it even made it in the country.these people did this for year's , never had one hassle.

 

[Ronin]

Being in the NYC area, we had access to grips of smuggled goods.
Thai sticks from Thailand, Jamaican bud(not pressed), and some crazy Afghani bud.
The all time greatest personal achievement for the time was being able to hold a 2 kilo brick of Turkish hash.
Holding that brick in my hand was a profound experience that still effects me today.
The crescent moon and star stamped into the top.Salivating just thinking about it.:drool:
For me, that was like holding one of the tablets with the ten commandments on it.