Thai Stick Marijuana Strain

I loved this stuff back in the late '70s whenever it came around. Best tasting bud I ever smoked.

I was in Thailand in the 70's and bought 30 sticks at a time for $25. They were exactly the same smell, taste and high as the Thai sticks i had been buying in California and Washington for a few years. Absolutely the sweetest smelling and tasting marijuana that I have ever had. The high? Powerful and psychedelic. Definitely not a typical sativa high. Colombian weed was an excellent sativa and really the gold standard for a great sativa high. Thai stick took you much farther into psychedelia. Durban poison would be more comparable to the Thai stick high but not nearly as trippy. FIRST: It was NOT dipped in hash oil or opium or anything else. It was just an amazing and pure land race that has been eradicated to extinction by Thailand's king who decided to start executing growers and dealers in the 90's. That incredible flavor and taste (and mind bending high) is why so many people thought it was dipped or rolled in something. But I am here to tell you I bought it from people who were the growers and saw for myself how they did it. It was just a wonderful plant growing in perfect conditions that it had evolved in. I am totally familiar with the "caviar" buds in today's market that are dipped in oil and rolled in kief. Thai stick looked nothing like that. It smelled nothing like any strain sold anywhere today.

It's an urban legend that Thai sticks were "dipped in opium". Not true. They were also not dipped in hash oil. The rural small farmers did not produce hash oil. And if the opium thing was true, a lot of stoners in the US would have developed a degree of opium addiction. That didn't happen. Real Thai sticks were just super strong landrace strains from northeastern Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia. They were enhanced by a long curing process that kind of fermented them in their own resins. The really top quality stopped coming to the US around 1982. Eventually they stopped tying the sticks and just shipped pressed "stickless Thai". That ended in 1988 after a few huge busts on the west coast broke up the syndicates bringing it. By then US domestic production and central American imports had taken over anyway. As it came from a very old region with numerous similar strains, there is no single Thai stick strain.

In the mid to late seventies Thai-sticks consisted of small dense buds wrapped around a sliver of bamboo with hemp-fiber and dipped into an opium solution; weighing about 3-4 grams and costing $30-$40. The US government began spraying paraquat on Mexican fields after the Vietnam war, and the Drug War went full swing as a covert cover for the CIA to relocate its drug smuggling operations into Mexico and Central America. The Vietnam pull-out ended the CIA's use of our military's C-130's for drug smuggling from Asia. Thai-stick quickly disappeared and so did any availability of Red-bud Colombian and Colombian-gold. Domestically grown pot from Northern California, Oregon, and Hawaii became most popular.... But fake sticks began showing-up as Thai-stick, they were made from low quality Colombian buds loosely wrapped around a small skewer-stick with dark red thread. These sticks were bunk, without the distinctive taste or hallucinogenic high one would experience from real Thai-stick. Never have I seen a Thai-stick dipped in hash oil. I lived in Southern California's South Bay area at the time and knew very resourceful contacts that could get any variety of the best drugs I wanted. When the availability of Thai-stick or any good Colombian availability ended, "Grown in America" Sensimilla became the new hit. Today I'm a medical grower, and no strain I've sampled compares to genuine Thai-stick.

Thai Stick is one of my favourites strain. Maybe is a low THC level but high after smoking is unique. No other weed what i smoked can do that excellent focusing and motivating. Great to smoke with friends and make large discussions about everything. Excellent stuff - Krzysztof Ibisz gorąco poleca :)

Hawaii in '72. One bong hit was a mild 3-hr acid trip. Best I've ever had.

Bought some decades ago and unwrapped the red string from around it. Smoke a joint of it, by myself, not knowing anything about this strain. I was so “hit” moments later that I first threw-up and then fell asleep for hours. I’ve never smoked any strain close to this since.

Used to be quarter ounce Buddha Thai sticks that came on ships in the San Francisco and they did have hash oil while on them type and it was for quite a few years that come in bundles for like a pound . Though early 70' s to mid to late 70's.best weed by far til about 1980 then came hydro skunk stains

I bought hybrid on a stick in the 70 and 80s will to say it has class effective for pstd and chronic fatigue syndrome and epilepsy

One of the very best natural original marijuana strains.. And one of the most medically effective for relieving my MS symptoms! :-) -Thai Guy

Very informative , I would like to get some seeds of the original 100 percent Sativa strain. The one I always smoked when in country. Without a doubt my favorite. I would love to see how the do Cali.

While in Viet Nam I got to smoke many Thai sticks.... the first time user should be careful. This weed can make you actually TRIP (like on acid or mescaline )...... once used to it.. it is great for concentration and relaxation.