Remember when the average price of a "lid" was $20.00? Etymology of hemp

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

And why did we call it a lid? Where did that come from?

Reefer, pot, joint, doobie, bomber, gahngi...

What other slang terms are out there?

edited due to silly mispelling :)

[cruadin]

1. Etymology? n/t

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. Uhhhh.... Yeah!

Oops, LOL

[Skittles]

2. back when DEA were the first three letters in the word DEAL?

ya, I remember. never did know where the term LID originated though.

[Wonk]

14. I've heard the term 'lid" came from using the lid from a mayonnaise jar

to measure it. A full lid (piled high, not flat) was a lid, or roughly an ounce (I think).

[blueknight]

3. i can remember

$10.00 dollars an o.z.! also known as the kill,chronic,doobs,smoke,meanie greenie.

[Roon]

4. Mary Jane, green, herb,

off the top of my head

[skygazer]

5. It's "Etymology"

Ents are large living trees.

And yes, I remember. I never did know where "lid" came from. Then there were nickel and dime bags.

[ashmanonar]

13. lol

entymology is also, i believe, the scientific study of bugs...

i do like the idea of the study of ents as a science...(aren't all trees living? except those that are dead? ;))

[Viva_La_Revolution]

6. lemme see if I remember

hold your finger up vertically against the bag.... one finger deep is a quarter - well back in the old days it was! 2 fingers thick is a half lid, 4 fingers is a lid. Don't where the term came from tho...

[NoPasaran]

8. One of the few advantages to living in El Paso

during the 1970s was the ten dollar lid.

[bettyellen]

9. and "tre" bags, the three dollar ones

that used to get you 7-8 pin joints if you went down to west farms or hunts point for them.
loosies or loose joints wrer 7 for five usually.

[cruadin]

10. When I was a smoker, I don't remember "lid" being used...

that much by my fellow smokers. Usually they would call it a "four-finger bag" (1 oz.) or a "two-finger bag" (1/2 oz.).

The weed itself was usually called just that, "weed" or sometimes "smoke." Only ass-clowns ever called it "Mary Jane."

[Acryliccalico]

11. There is a web site totally devoted to the different names of drugs and th

I don't have the URL for this but since I was a substance abuse counselor for 2 years I had an interest in knowing and Googled drugs and their effects, also drug language.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

12. i remember when weed was $10 a lid Hermosa Beach,CA 1969 and

a pack of reds was/were $10

[Mr.Green93]

15. Those were the days

[Vanje]

16. Spleef

Fatty

[bettyellen]

17. what about the kensington carrot from Withnail and I !!!

biggest joint i ever saw in a movie

also:
chocoalte buddah, blunts...

[jmowreader]

21. Was it larger or smaller than Tommy Chong's Up in Smoke joint?

[bettyellen]

27. LOL! YOU TELL ME: (+correction: it's camberwell carrot )

(the photo is of Danny, and Marwood is played by Richard Grant (from The Player) you have to imagine it with really droll british accents)


Danny starts pulling out rizlas at a prolific rate Withnail: What are you going to do with those?

Danny: The joint I am about to roll requires a craftsman and can utilize up to twelve spliffs. It is called a Camberwell carrot.

Marwood: It's impossible to use 12 papers on one joint.

Danny: It is impossible to roll a camberwell carrot with anything less.

Withnail: Who says it's a Camberwell carrot.

Danny: I do. I invented it in Camberwell and it's shaped like a carrot.

Cut to Danny on the sofa. The Camberwell carrot is complete and is indeed of prodigious proportions. As Danny lights it we see only the end but as he hands it to Withnail we see the true size. It is enormous. Danny: These will tend to make you very high.

Withnail takes a long draw Danny: This grass is the most powerful in the western hemisphere. It grows at exactly two thousand feet above sea-level. I have it special flown in from my man in Mexico. His name's Huang. He's an expert.

[jmowreader]

29. It's a split decision

The Camberwell Carrot is longer than the Man Stoner joint. However, the Man Stoner joint is far thicker.

[bettyellen]

30. The Camebrwell Carrrot gets credit for being damned funny, it's a draw.

[catmandu57]

18. four finger lids for 15.00

that was the going rate back when I discovered the green herb. Quarter pounds for 45.00 that's what everyone bought sell three and smoke one.

[MnFats]

32. we paid fifteen bucks for an oz. of quality mexican hooch.

one ounce was enough to last a summer if you were judicious in your use, even though you could fuel a couple of parties with it.

That is, if your folks didn't find it and flush it down the toilet.
DAMN!

[mitchtv]

19. NYC had nickel bags in small manila stamp bags

before the advent of "baggies" Also available were wheat straw papers.

[Kat45]

20. I never heard the term "lid" except on TV. We used to just talk

about getting an ounce, which was $20. Sometimes you could get an oz for $15, if it was real cheap Mexican shit. A nickel bag was 1/4 oz for $5, and a dime bag was 1/2 oz for $10. Among my group of friends, we usually called it grass or pot. We'd talk about smoking a joint or smoking a j.

I also never heard it called a doobie until much later; perhaps it was a regional term? I only heard it called Mary Jane on "Dragnet" until one day in Montreal (in the nineties), some guy came up to us on the street asking, in French, if we had any.

[Wapsie B]

22. Ditch weed.

[meganmonkey]

23. Nugs

As in 'nuggets'. As in some really kind bud. No schwag here.

[Mabel Dodge]

24. Those were fun days....

I lived in a $100 a month apartment in a college town and shared joints and pizza on an old red velvet couch with my buds.

[no_hypocrisy]

25. Those . . . were . . . the . . . days, my friend,

We thought they'd never end.
We'd sing and dance forever and a day.
We'd live the life we'd choose.
We'd fight and never lose.
For we were young and sure to have our way!

[proud2BlibKansan]

26. I remember $15 being pretty standard

and a nickel bag cost $5.

And there really was such a thing as one hit pot.

[WCGreen]

33. Lids were fifteen and Ounces were 20....

Those were the daze my friends, at least I think they were....
They seemed so real to me, but who can really say what is real and what is a managed realtiy concocted by the corporte theme parks...

[48pan]

28. Lids were $10 - Ounces were $20...

at Woodstock and for a while after.

[Coldwulf]

31. a Lid...

was the amount you could put in a Matchbox (large stick matches) lid.

I have a buddy that says pot dealers should be running the economy, because in 20 years the price of pot, (regular mexican schwag) has only gone from 40 dollars up to 50 dollars an ounce. That with the rising labor costs is good economy.

[Baja Margie]

34. Mota amigo.

Just like PLEASE grow your own or get it from the Canadians, these bums gotta go down here.