Like, a gram of weed, or just a gram in general? More precisely, whose gram?
Yo. I was at an apple
orchidorchard and there was a bag of apples and it stated 1/2 peck bag. I didn’t know that means. I still don’t. Volume? Weight? Whatever, do you want some apples or not?I asked the cashier, “Hey, so what exactly is a peck? Like what would the amount be?”
He responded, " Well, like , if you took this bag and filled it up with apples then that would be 1/2 peck of apples."
I didn’t want to explain to him why that didn’t help because I thought he might have been a bit too high to give me a valid answer. They made good apple cider donuts there, though. Yum.
An orchid is a flower. A group of trees is sn orchard.
A peck is an imperial and United States customary unit of dry volume,[1] equivalent to 2 dry gallons or 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints. An imperial peck is equivalent to 9.09 liters and a US customary peck is equivalent to 8.81 liters. Two pecks make a kenning (obsolete), and four pecks make a bushel. Although the peck is no longer widely used, some produce, such as apples, are still often sold by the peck in the U.S. (although it is obsolete in the UK, found only in the old nursery rhyme “Peter Piper” and in the Bible – e.g., Matthew 5:15 in some older translations).
so 8.81 liters for the rest of us. Now we just need to work out what a dry gallon is.
The dry gallon, also known as the corn gallon or grain gallon, is a historic British dry measure of volume that was used to measure grain and other dry commodities and whose earliest recorded official definition, in 1303, was the volume of 8 pounds (3.6 kg) of wheat.[1] The US fluid gallon is about 14.1% smaller than the US dry gallon, while the Imperial fluid gallon is about 3.2% larger than the US dry gallon.
No… No!
The dry gallon’s implicit value in the US system was originally one eighth of the Winchester bushel, which was a cylindrical measure of 18.5 inches (469.9 mm) in diameter and 8 inches (203.2 mm) in depth, making it an irrational number of cubic inches; its value to seven significant digits was 268.8025 cubic inches (4.404884 litres), from an exact value of 9.252 × π cubic inches. Since the bushel was later redefined to be exactly 2150.42 cubic inches, 268.8025 became the exact value for the dry gallon (268.8025 cubic inches is 4.40488377086 L).
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That’s why they talk so easily about unities like “goalposts per supercarrier”, US people are used to the confusion.
😂 well thanks for this. I feel somehow more informed and also more confused.
I corrected the orchid/orchard thing so at least I got that going. 😊
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Its just a ‘pack’ of apples, but the farmer was from new zealand
I’m going coke
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Is this a Craig/Cregg thing? Do you pronounce Graham as Gram instead of Grayam?
Haha, yup. That’s my savage yankee pronunciation at work.
Probably not weed. Where is weed sold in single gram increments? At least in the US, the most common increment is 3.5 g which is also an eighth of an ounce.
Ohhhhhh, British Columbian and ex professional here on this one.
Personal “bulk” sales are usually some in 1/8ths (3.5 grams) or more but in stores, the first page of their lil booklet is usually half or full gram pre rolled joints.
Admittedly, for what it’s worth, first time I saw this meme in the wild was at a pot shop while buying a pre rolled gram.
You are either young or have middle class dealers. In 2007, you definitely did buy weed by the gram, and hydroponic stuff could be $20-$30 per gram in some areas if supply was scarce. Of course, places with competition had better prices, but some rural areas really price gouged.
Ghetto dealers often sold bags by the price alone. $10 was usually 2 grams to an 8th of either backyard weed or Mexican weed that often had little bits of twine and the occasional Hispanic hair in it from when it was put in a bale and taken across the border. Some dealers would also sell nickel bags ($5) that was .75 to 1 gram—basically just enough for one blunt.
I have been glad that I’ve gotten to see the weed industry evolve heavily over my lifetime, and I know that I only see about 20 years of it. I’m sure the old heads from the 70’s would have real stories to tell. In the words of Bill Burr, “you used to buy your weed by the pillowcase.”
$30 a gram?!? I was paying $35 for 1/8ths of top shelf stuff in the rural western US in 2007. Then again, the rural west is where all the good stuff was grown pre-legalization.
The struggle was real, and there was a lot of variance in prices back then. $30 was in Denton, Texas where they knew they had a captive audience. It was cheaper in Dallas, and much cheaper in Austin.
As they say in real estate, “location, location, location!”
For what it’s worth, I didn’t pay that price very often—I’m no rube, lol.
I don’t know about the 1970s but in the late '80s it seems to me that none of the weed dealers had gone metric yet. I assumed this meme was about cocaine.
What did they do for amounts under an 8th? Could you buy 1/28th of an ounce of weed?
Grams are the only incorporation of the metric system in the American weed business. Once you hit an 8th or above, things are measured in ounces and pounds.
My first thought was “why would you ever buy it in amounts less than an 8th, that’s not much” but I guess I had heard of such a thing as a dime bag which I have only just now learned was 1g. I always thought it meant “$10 worth” or something, and was for tourists who didn’t know they were paying too much for too little.
A dime bag is $10 worth, it is often more than a G—2-3.5 grams depending on quality. A nickel bag is .75 to 1g usually. Both will be backyard or Mexican weed, usually, which is how the price is so low.
People buy in amounts less than an 8th for one simple reason—being poor. If you wanted hydroponic weed in the early 2000’s, it cost more money than some people had. I was actually stoked when I got my first hookup for ghetto backyard weed because I could finally afford the amount I wanted rather than paying top dollar for “dro” (hydroponic weed).
Lol wherever high-school kids and budget minded people buy weed. That is where you buy in gr increments. Also any store I have ever been in has sold grams.
Perhaps the people that don’t live in the US?
I had to look at the community name before I realized this was about unit conversions and not that alien sticky.
EDIT: I checked the original community it was posted in. Some scientists here have been doing a little experimentation for their thesis.
I’m like y’all scientists asking the real questions
I didn’t realize it until reading your comment.
About three fiddy, but it’s mostly shake.
$5/gram for mids, $10 for the fire
How old are you? If I may ask. I’m 40. Back in high school, a gram of fire was about 20. Mids came nickel bags and dime bags, 5 or 10 bucks.
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In Contact (I can’t remember if the movie, book, or both), they counted out things in terms plank lengths and quarks / leptons.
Simple: 10,524 Grobs in a Slork,
2 Slorks makes a GrobSlork,
16 GrobSlorks makes a Foot,
12 Foots make a Grobe,
64 Grobes and 1 Slork makes a Sorlok1 Earth gram = (2 GrobSlork(Southeren unit) - 4114 Glorbs(Deep ocean Standard.)) * 7 + 1 .
all this and they count in a different base
Still better than Imperial.
Pretty much all the data he given can be base 8. So aliens have four fingers on a hand
I just put a bunch of numbers and stupid names. I didn’t intend for it to have a consistent schema. I can’t even pretend to be as bad as the imperial system it seems.
*For 7/5ths of the galactic standard definitions of “1”.
“We use the same word for all units.”
“Oh, you’re British!”
Yes, definitely a science question!
There were some people at my university for whom it was a science question. And they paid about €1350 per gram and the first thing they did with it was dissolve it in sulphuric acid.
This was posted in a weed community first and then crossposted here. Because for a stoner the important question is “how much does a gram of weed cost?”. For a scientist, more importantly the question is “what system of measurements do you use?”, or, specifically, “how much [mass] is a gram [in your unit system]?”
But (taken literally by my autistic ass) it’s one we already know the answer to because we’re the ones who defined all the units in the first place. A gram is a unit of mass, not weight, which is why its value is the same regardless of the value of g. That’s also why it’s always measured with a balance rather than a scale. It’s based on the Planck constant – which is, well, constant.
What planet are we weighing on, fam?
“About tree fiddy”
how dare you. We do not sell our elders
Are your amino-acids right-handed or left-handed? Ah! You not know what left, right or handed meaning? The translator is terrific.
Gram? What? Drugs are legal here we measure that by the Ton.
Anyway that’s how the first intergalactic war on Drugs was started and space cocaine was made a schedule one.
Isn’t space cocaine also the secret to immortality?
Not in my propaganda it’s not!
h = 6.626 070 15 x 10–32 kg m2 s–1.
Ah yes… the ol’ Planck approach, I like it!
80 if you’re polite
80 potatoes
