# More lies. (War on drugs, again) **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 11, 2005, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-lies-war-on-drugs-again/289550 "2005-02-11T06:01:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-lies-war-on-drugs-again/289550/21 "2005-02-13T20:50:15Z")
That was a typo, I think you know what it meant. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-lies-war-on-drugs-again/289550/22 "2005-02-13T23:58:12Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > My dad claims that when he was in college, he and his three roommates used to pool their cash and buy a _pound_. That was like $160 back then. Sorta puts into perspective all the ways my parents claim to have suffered in their youth. Yeah, but they had to walk 10 miles to the dealer’s house, in the snow, and it was uphill both ways. 😉 And they liked it! ---
**Author:** ![eman77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@eman77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eman77)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2005, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-lies-war-on-drugs-again/289550/23 "2005-02-14T21:43:38Z")
> [@SPOOFE](#): > > Stress is the lowest grade o’ weed you can find (I’ve never heard the term “crippy”). Chronic is mid-range, and seems to be the “standard”. Kush is the high-end shit. > > An eighth is 3.5 grams and usually goes for $40-$50 (if chronic). A ten dollar bag is usually half a gram. > > I, uh… know all this because, uh… I’m writing a book! Yeah. A book. And I want it to, uh… be as authentic as possible. Yeah. That’s it. No need, [It’s already been done](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1933037539/qid=1108418149/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/002-1048918-2084805?v=glance&s=books&n=507846) ---
**Author:** ![El\_Zagna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@El\_Zagna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Zagna)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-lies-war-on-drugs-again/289550/24 "2005-02-15T01:52:54Z")
> [@Excalibre](#): > > My dad claims that when he was in college, he and his three roommates used to pool their cash and buy a _pound_. That was like $160 back then. Sorta puts into perspective all the ways my parents claim to have suffered in their youth. Yep, late sixties - early seventies it was $10 an ounce whether good bad or mediocre. ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-lies-war-on-drugs-again/289550/25 "2005-02-16T02:05:06Z")
> [@SPOOFE](#): > > Crikey, where do you live? Ounces probably go for $250, at best, in southern California. Probably closer to $300… and that’d be for the suppliers selling it to the dealers. Dealers probably charge closer to $400 per ounce. Well, IIRC from my heavy weed days (about 7 years ago), we (i.e. the 90’s neo-hippy Grateful dead/Phish scene) generally differentiated between _shwag_ (the lowest quality) and _kind_ (the highest, which included kush, and a whole bunch of other names I can’t quite remember. I think many assumed these subnames were official species classifications, and perhaps many of them are; sativa or indica comes to mind). Never heard of stress, but I guess it’s the same as shwag. Schwag was typically $15 - $20/an eighth; and generally $100 - $130/an oz. Kind was 40 - 70/ an eighth and 325 - 400/an oz. uh… I’m… er… writing a book too! ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-lies-war-on-drugs-again/289550/26 "2005-02-16T02:06:58Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > Wouldn’t that be pronounced “ten million millions dollars dollars”? Ten _trillion_ dollars? That does seem a bit high. > [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > That was a typo, I think you know what it meant. Yeah, but I have to confess, reading it out loud gave me a chuckle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-lies-war-on-drugs-again/289550.md?page=1)