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Quote: 1nickelmiracle

All I know was Cheech and Chong used the term in the movie Up In Smoke. Beyond that I have no clue how much it was measuring or why it was called a lid.

We used lid all the time, it meant an ounce. They
don't say that anymore?

Quote: Evenbob

We used lid all the time, it meant an ounce. They
don't say that anymore?

Ok if a lid is an ounce, why call it a lid. Nobody would ever sell an ounce I know and it's probably all they bought from their source themselves I'm guessing. I was weak anyways with a low tolerance for it and didn't need very much.

Quote: 1nickelmiracle

Ok if a lid is an ounce, why call it a lid. Nobody would ever sell an ounce I know and it's probably all they bought from their source themselves I'm guessing. I was weak anyways with a low tolerance for it and didn't need very much.

Perhaps if you put pot in a certain type of jar, the "lid" of that type of jar would hold about an ounce. So you measure an amount to sell out from the lid.

(Back in 1970's)

Occam's razor might suggest that answer.

I don't know what they do today, but selling by the ounce was common at one time. The term nickel bag was common. (1/4 of an ounce.)

I remember my next door neighbor putting a whole pound on the dining room table one night.

Nobody was using metric weights. Not around me anyway.

Search "Thurgood wears a wire" on Youtube.

Quote: rxwine

I don't know what they do today, but selling by the ounce was common at one time. The term nickel bag was common. (1/4 of an ounce.)

I remember my next door neighbor putting a whole pound on the dining room table one night.

Nobody was using metric weights. Not around me anyway.

These days its still sold in ounces or fractions of an ounce. For accuracy though, measurements are typically in grams.
1/8 an ounce, you measure out 3.5 grams
1/4 ounce, 7 grams
ect

Quote: terapined

These days its still sold in ounces or fractions of an ounce. For accuracy though, measurements are typically in grams.
1/8 an ounce, you measure out 3.5 grams
1/4 ounce, 7 grams

Don't forget the street lingo...
1/8 oz is an 8-ball
half an 8-ball is a 1/16, a "teener" (1.75 grams)

Heh. I still remember a line out of this. Just looked it up.

Quote: rxwine

Heh. I still remember a line out of this. Just looked it up.

Clever, looks like a white actor with a black voice over playing the dealer.

Quote: 1nickelmiracle

All I know was Cheech and Chong used the term in the movie Up In Smoke. Beyond that I have no clue how much it was measuring or why it was called a lid.

And on the album Big Bambu but lid is standard 60s-speak for ounce.