In terms of smoking, pipes and hookahs have been the strong preference, but of course prohibition made having that kind of obvious paraphernalia difficult or impossible. By contrast, in a time when a lot of people were rolling their own cigarettes, a joint with half-pot half-tobacco was truly very stealthy. You could make it with a little grass so you didn't have to buy much or have much on you, and if you had to ditch it then it was no big loss. When you were done, nothing was left, but ashes and memories.
In terms of extracts, that's an even bigger case of "don't want to be caught with that on me!" as well as issues of knowledge being lost, and the fact that extracting any amount requires growing a large amount... so again the law is a factor. Joints really aren't ideal, except for stealth (in a time when most smoked), and certainly they're less efficient than a pipe, hookah, or bong. Efficiency doesn't matter as much as not going to jail though, and especially if you only had a bit of grass to mix with tobacco, it wasn't a concern.
The last thing, that ties all of this together is how difficult it became to grow cannabis in the US, and the associations with racial and social issues. Over time, marijuana (and heroin) were intentionally associated with hippies and black people- "We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." (John Ehrlichman) -and as a result complex social dynamics evolved that we still see remnants of today.
In terms of extracts, that's an even bigger case of "don't want to be caught with that on me!" as well as issues of knowledge being lost, and the fact that extracting any amount requires growing a large amount... so again the law is a factor. Joints really aren't ideal, except for stealth (in a time when most smoked), and certainly they're less efficient than a pipe, hookah, or bong. Efficiency doesn't matter as much as not going to jail though, and especially if you only had a bit of grass to mix with tobacco, it wasn't a concern.
The last thing, that ties all of this together is how difficult it became to grow cannabis in the US, and the associations with racial and social issues. Over time, marijuana (and heroin) were intentionally associated with hippies and black people- "We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." (John Ehrlichman) -and as a result complex social dynamics evolved that we still see remnants of today.