When I was a teenager, if you bought a bag of weed it was called a lid. Generally speaking, there were two finger lids and three finger lids. I've heard of four finger lids, but I think it's an urban myth. The unit of measurement was the height of two or three fingers put together. The weed was sold in a plastic baggy and you'd hold your fingers up to the baggy and call it even at some point. It was the hippie system of measurement.
Things changed when I was in high school. The grass industry became more sophisticated. It employed the metric system as a form of measurement. Pot was measured in grams. A small bag of weed was a gram. It seemed like a gyp, but the weed was better so it evened out. The next step up from that was an eighth. An eighth of what was unclear. I always thought it was an eighth of an ounce, but that wouldn't make sense, if it was the metric system. Or was it the British Imperial System? You can buy a gram or an ounce, a pound or a kilo. It's still like that. It's higgledy-piggledy.
Things changed when I was in high school. The grass industry became more sophisticated. It employed the metric system as a form of measurement. Pot was measured in grams. A small bag of weed was a gram. It seemed like a gyp, but the weed was better so it evened out. The next step up from that was an eighth. An eighth of what was unclear. I always thought it was an eighth of an ounce, but that wouldn't make sense, if it was the metric system. Or was it the British Imperial System? You can buy a gram or an ounce, a pound or a kilo. It's still like that. It's higgledy-piggledy.
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