Acapulco Gold – 1973 (Cannabis History Preserved)

Acapulco Gold – 1973 (Cannabis History Preserved)

Hey ya’ll, this is a little bit of history I stumbled on the other day. To be fare, it’s not the highest quality flick, but it has some historical context that I thought was worth sharing.

Acapulco Gold
1973
Directed by Bob Grosvenor

“The TRUE story of the HARVESTING, CULTIVATION, and SMUGGLING of marijuana in the U.S. and Mexico today. Filmed in color in the Bluegrass Fields of Kentucky, the Kaw Valley of Kansas, The Ozark Mountains of Missouri, San Diego, California, and the golden hills of Acapulco and Tijuana, Mexico.

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50 Comments

  1. @MrAirblown2009 on December 25, 2023 at 2:51 am

    Summer of 73 was when I came into this world. My parents were hippies into R&B blues music scene in Dallas area. My how much we’ve discovered with this plant and how far the genetics have come, especially the technique. These plants in this video are the landrace ancestors of the crazy buds of today. I never saw any buds I think ol dude went to Acapulco Mexico to just get plant leaf’s. Lmao !!



  2. @BongDonky on December 25, 2023 at 2:52 am

    They were smokin Bio mass. lol! Thanks for cool vid.



  3. @robert7355 on December 25, 2023 at 2:54 am

    these fools were actually selling & smoking the damn leaves? WTF?!?



  4. @rickmartin5132 on December 25, 2023 at 2:55 am

    Thanks…wow…an unexpected blast from the past!



  5. @mymalinoisadventures2252 on December 25, 2023 at 2:57 am

    I really enjoyed this movie. Cannabis has come a long way



  6. @sk8ordie828 on December 25, 2023 at 2:59 am

    Gee wow we have come so far we’re ever did you find such rare and important footage .



  7. @adkviking69shofner98 on December 25, 2023 at 3:00 am

    I love that you found this little History film we had wild hemp growing where they used to sweep the box cars out I it actually had great structure not taller than 6 foot bug buds some terpenes but I dried and smoked a shoebox full hot nothing but a headache 😅headache



  8. @heyhey5628 on December 25, 2023 at 3:01 am

    so this is the modern version of "reefer madness" is all!
    don’t even know the difference
    between hemp and cannabis!
    talk about a scripted "documentary"LOL!



  9. @andystevens7267 on December 25, 2023 at 3:01 am

    Should have just harvested the tops of the plant. Problem solved. All right Alright all right



  10. @mangolloyd4736 on December 25, 2023 at 3:02 am

    Good lid man good lid



  11. @gregschrag7848 on December 25, 2023 at 3:06 am

    What were they cleaning at the 20:00 mark…I didn’t see nothing but plants with all leaves and no buds



  12. @mindhunter00789 on December 25, 2023 at 3:06 am

    every high school in the usa had one of those blond girls attending



  13. @lukebell7131 on December 25, 2023 at 3:07 am

    4:18 get some clippers sir have a good day



  14. @southernvtgrown on December 25, 2023 at 3:08 am

    Thanks for the old school history lesson ✌🏼💚🙏🏻Homie great fun vid



  15. @wholylove on December 25, 2023 at 3:10 am

    6:11, this is like telling your Creator that they messed up the placement of its plants.



  16. @johnbooth5297 on December 25, 2023 at 3:13 am

    All that work for some dirt weed profiteteers even existed back then I guess…



  17. @user-ck6je9dw4p on December 25, 2023 at 3:13 am

    track coach: just act like you got 40 kilos and there may be rifles targeting you.



  18. @kekaharris6618 on December 25, 2023 at 3:13 am

    No offence but that lid was wak 😂



  19. @cjjorge6636 on December 25, 2023 at 3:14 am

    lol seeing them smoke the hole thing instead of the budz lol



  20. @tylerkessler4021 on December 25, 2023 at 3:15 am

    Buying weed with Chris hillman haha



  21. @chadrizla496 on December 25, 2023 at 3:16 am

    @39:24 I`m interested in what he was going to say about that old seed! This was amazing to say the least!!



  22. @Der_Beobachter_Edelweiss7X7X7 on December 25, 2023 at 3:18 am

    *May Harry Jacob Anslinger rest completely in unrest and unpeace in the darkness of hell forever for all eternity.*
    *_May Harry Jacob Anslinger rest completely in unrest and unpeace in the darkness of hell forever and ever for all eternity._*

    *Preventing a CANNABIS PLANT from being born, from sprouting on the earth, is the same as trying to prevent the sun from rising, and setting, it is trying to prevent the rain from falling, and prevent the moon from shining.*

    To forbid the cultivation of a PLANT, created by the Sacred Laws of CREATION and the Mother Nature, is like forbidding the Human Nature itself. Its perfume and its taste are SACRED! The illegality and the irrational and genocidal prohibition of Cannabis/Marihuana is absolutely Scandalous, Criminal and Heinous, it is an unfair and inhuman impediment to the full use of a NATURAL HERB that helps to produce the most complete serenity and deep Insights, inner perception, sensitivity and spiritual communion, so desperately needed in this inhuman world, increasingly Crazy and Dangerous.

    Origin of the word drug: Drug comes from the word DROOG (ancient Dutch language) which means Dry Leaf. This is because, in the old days, most drugs were vegetable-based. It is the drug that acting on living organisms, causes beneficial or useful effects. The policy of banning marijuana is a complex and controversial issue, generally guided by prejudice and the absolute stupidity of ignorance, bad faith, ignorance and the irrationality of religious beliefs and racism. There is no Deep Darkness greater governing within the Human Being than the most absurd and complete ignorance and its total lack of Wisdom. There is no eye equal to Wisdom, nor is there GLOOMY DARKNESS greater than or equal to Ignorance, nor is there power equal to the Power of the Human Being’s Own Spirit, nor is there Awful Terror equal to Poverty of Consciousness and the Heinous, Bestial and Criminal Irrationality taught by religions of all colours, shades, hues, and denominations.

    Marijuana/Cannabis is not drug, Marijuana is a herb of wisdom. Smoking marijuana is a way of philosophizing and having profound ideas about the deepest things of life, so that true and real enlightenment can be achieved. Marijuana is the herb of wisdom for those who are true philosophers and lovers of deep peace for every human being and for all living beings, do respect their neighbour, love all nature in all its green and multicoloured beauty.



  23. @claudiacamargo5104 on December 25, 2023 at 3:18 am

    Awesome! Thanks for this share!



  24. @ahronthegreat on December 25, 2023 at 3:19 am

    All that dry ice technique and stuff when the truck was sinsemilla all along lol



  25. @williemills2657 on December 25, 2023 at 3:21 am

    Imagine going to prison for a very long time for 5 oz of flower 4 oz of dirt and 99.7 kilos of stems, fan leaves 😂😂😂😂



  26. @oliverkirfel on December 25, 2023 at 3:21 am



  27. @dannyporter6 on December 25, 2023 at 3:22 am

    Cool man totally out of site you dig..
    Grass roots babe…
    They was taking down giant plants with little or no flower. Great reminder to check your privilege…. This is awesome chad thanks bro.. I had to edit this to add that what we have available to us today took a whole lot of hard work by HARD WORKING breeders some of them did time in prison some were even killed so the next time you buy a pack of beans keep that in my when you see the price tag



  28. @RussianTroll-ie6gr on December 25, 2023 at 3:24 am

    I will love to have the original landrace seeds. But unfortunately most of the so called landrace seeds today are back crossed



  29. @uncleknife9887 on December 25, 2023 at 3:24 am

    No stems no seeds that you don’t need, Acapulco Gold is………………Bad Ass Weed!
    Thanks for Hempstory Lesson Chaddy the Baddy!
    ⛽🚒



  30. @phenofarmseeds5280 on December 25, 2023 at 3:25 am

    Awsome movie



  31. @Briarlord4jen on December 25, 2023 at 3:27 am

    Yeah…that was cool. That poor plant. So beat up. lol. Keep up the great work love your content. As a member of the DGC, what is there not to love about all you do. Keep rocking



  32. @mmeis2389 on December 25, 2023 at 3:27 am

    My mom as a teen in NM saw the migrants smoking it and said she tried it and it just gave her a headache. I told her oh dirt weed..lol. In 1970 the vets brought it over from thai lebanese paki and indian hash. The mexican weed was still good and cheap. It was 10 years in prison for any amount for possession in texas then. Scary and fun times it was. Good vid – TY.



  33. @BeugyNBeast on December 25, 2023 at 3:29 am

    Good piece of canna history. Awesome to see. Cheers for the upload mate. 😎👊🤙💨



  34. @Noah_Wiggins on December 25, 2023 at 3:30 am

    its a hardy plant



  35. @Noah_Wiggins on December 25, 2023 at 3:33 am

    weed rope?



  36. @ktrain420247 on December 25, 2023 at 3:33 am

    I have a pack from bodhi, and that girl didn’t finish in Colorado, I took her down at the new year cause I couldn’t afford the propane no longer. She wasn’t done yet.



  37. @ke5med on December 25, 2023 at 3:34 am

    Thanks for the upload the old farmer was my great uncle, guy in the kaw valley shirt is a cousin, unfortunately he recently passed away due to heart complications.



  38. @whiteowl8703 on December 25, 2023 at 3:34 am

    Born in 62 — a year after this I smoked my first weed. The thing that struck me the most was how different women acted back then. Wow I miss that. I mean it. I really do.



  39. @kushpush2724 on December 25, 2023 at 3:35 am

    Back when good weed had like 6% thc.



  40. @secretsquirrel1534 on December 25, 2023 at 3:36 am

    Totally Reminds Me of when I Started Smoking and Growing back in 1983 ! 40 years as a Smoker, Grower, Breeder !!!



  41. @midwestoutlaw3194 on December 25, 2023 at 3:36 am

    Wow what a blast from the past I haven’t seen this in years we used to pass around a vhs tape of it THANKS CHAD🫶👍👍



  42. @sendellgarrett4809 on December 25, 2023 at 3:37 am

    So they wasn’t even smoking Bud?? That’s crazy cut it down end of July beginning of August smfh soon as the plant entered the bud cycle ( flowering) they killed it before hand wow



  43. @CunningBastard-xi7jh on December 25, 2023 at 3:38 am

    What a savage for growing weed Fucking awesome old man



  44. @brandonpaxton2146 on December 25, 2023 at 3:39 am

    Good lid! Jesus.



  45. @wucash5672 on December 25, 2023 at 3:39 am

    The blonde girl is such a dream 😍😍😍😍



  46. @gustav223 on December 25, 2023 at 3:39 am

    They made it illegal and the cannabis got 100× stronger and instead of beaing connected too peaceful hippe culture it got somewhat connected too gangsters, talk about a govermental horror story 😵 how dident they learn from alkohol probition too start with… hope they learn this time



  47. @hoodymchoodson1499 on December 25, 2023 at 3:42 am

    Quinn from jaws in an alternate time line



  48. @warrenfamilyvalues3751 on December 25, 2023 at 3:43 am

    Love it



  49. @robert7355 on December 25, 2023 at 3:45 am

    At the 23 minute mark, they are actually just plucking leaves. No visible buds. WTF???



  50. @denisiofaircow9202 on December 25, 2023 at 3:46 am

    Horrible quality and virtually no useful reporting of consequence whatever. Pointless documentary for most part.