1960–1969

1960s collection.

The landrace import era.

Before there were breeders, there were travelers. The 60s catalog is a map of who carried what across which border, not who crossed what with what in a tent.

Cannabis in the 60s meant pressed bricks from Mexico, kilo bundles of Acapulco Gold dropped through the Sierra Madre, Thai sticks tied with bamboo, and bricks of dark Lebanese hash. There were no Cups, no Dutch catalogs, no labs. There were boats and trucks and a generation that suddenly cared what it was smoking.

For us the 60s era is about preserving the parent lines those imports were drawn from. Equatorial sativa with 14-week flower, narrow leaves, head-soaring effect. None of these strains are stable in the modern sense. They were never bred to be. They were grown for sun, harvested in monsoons, and shipped under tarps. That is what makes them worth saving.

Milestones

  1. 1965Acapulco Gold reaches the US West Coast in volume.
  2. 1967Panama Red shipments peak across the Southeast.
  3. 1968Santa Marta Gold and Chocolate Thai define the East Coast market.
  4. 1969The Haze Brothers begin their Santa Cruz Haze project from Colombian / Mexican / Thai / South Indian crosses.

Strains we are sourcing

Documented heritage lines we want to add to the vault but have not stabilized to our standard yet. Listed here for context, not for sale.

haze original

1969 · Santa Cruz, California

Pure sativa Haze. Soaring head, sixteen-week flower, no compromise.

acapulco gold

1965 · Guerrero, Mexico

The legend of 60s sativa. Gold-leafed, lemon and caramel, lifted head high.

colombian gold

1968 · Santa Marta region, Colombia

Equatorial sativa that helped seed the Haze project. Sandalwood and citrus.

chocolate thai

1968 · Northern Thailand, hill country

The dark chocolate of pure Thai sativa. Long-finish, narrow-leaf, story-tall plants.

thai stick

1965 · Thailand, traded in tied-bamboo bundles

The original sativa import format. Highland Thai bundled tight.

panama red

1967 · Central American sativa lineage, Panama isthmus

Red-pistil pure sativa, equatorial finish, classic 60s head high.

Where the 1960s collection stands

No 60s strain in our current catalog. We are working on Haze and Acapulco Gold sources. When they pass our QC we will list them as preservation drops, not retail.