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The last time anyone I knew bought a pound of weed they paid $35 for it.     
$400?  No wonder I don't smoke that crap! 

I'm pretty sure you are thinking about someone selling one ounce for 35 bucks. There's no way anyone sold a pond for 35 bucks. The $400 this guy wants is practically unheard of.

The MJ stores are selling grams for 10 bucks. At 400 for a pound that's close to one dollar a gram.

Started me thinking...
"Back in the day" I used to buy a "lid" for 10 bucks. (Full of sticks and seeds and I needed to roll a "fatty" if I wanted to get really stoned.)
So...where did the term "lid" come from? 

From a lid off a prince albert can. It was used to measure out an amount of weed'

Common terminology used in the 1960's and 1970's in the United States to describe approximately one ounce of marijuana.

(Cheech and Chong's "Up In Smoke") Let's go score a lid man.

 




 
A measure of Marijuana equal to a full lid from a large Hellmans Mayo Jar. (less than an oz / about 21grams)

Re: Whats a lid?

Contrary to popular belief a Lid is not an ounce of weed. The coffee cans had a key like a sardine can and the Lid would be wound off the can. The Lid used to measure usually contained about 4 fingers of pot. People at that time didn't have a triple scale to weight pot.

A lid, a baggie, an ounce The term 'lid' of marijuana goes back to the 60's. Back then you could buy a 'lid' or a 'can' of pot. The can was approximately 1 oz, the lid was1/8 oz. The term came from the practice of breaking up a brick (a kilo or later a key) of tightly packed marijuana and storing and selling it in Price Albert tobacco cans. A can held approximately one ounce. the lid would hold aproximatley1/8 oz. No one weighed it really, it was all done by eye. By the time I was in high school in the early 70's the term can had gone away and the term lid referred to an ounce. The Term Lid died off as the product quality changed.