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Back 'then" a dime bag was bought for $10. It weighed whatever your 'dealer' could get away with. A good dealer would compensate for the stems.

A 'doob' is short for a doobie, a hand rolled cigarette filled with evil maryjane. If anyone took the time to weigh it, they were an idiot.

It used to be ya bought an ounce. When those idiots (not the idiots that weighed their doobies, but the idiots who wanted to exploit this herb for profit) decided to start giving weed fancy names, the smart 'bros' who sold it to ya figured they could charge ya like you were buying a pair of Calvin Klein's, and since a twenty could go only so far, they started selling it by the 1/2oz and 1/8 oz. Regarding weights of 1/2 and 1 oz., one thing that has occurred since the twenties is the warming of the earth. This has led to slightly drier conditions overall, so an ounce today actually weighs less than an ounce did back in the day of reefer madness. This has caused severe problems with the smuggling trade, particularly in Mexico and South America, as often times old weed is mixed in with fresher weed, and although the pilots flying the planes think they are carrying, say 1000 pounds, in fact they are carrying a higher weight due to the added weight of so many old ounces mixed in with the new, and has led to several crashes of unknowingly overloaded planes.