From Ditch Weed to Dank: The Lost World of 1977 Cannabis and Why It Still Matters

 But there’s more to this image than nostalgia and comedy. What you’re looking at in that High Times spread is a snapshot of cannabis before genetics became an industry, before selection pressure from legalization narrowed the gene pool into a parade of similar high-THC cultivars, and before the concept of a “strain” meant something you could trademark and market to dispensary buyers. You’re looking at the world cannabis came from. And understanding that world matters a great deal for where cannabis is going.