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21 But ... isn't today's marijuana much more potent than it was in the Sixties?




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This article is from the Hemp / Cannabis / Marijuana FAQ, by Brian S. Julin verdant@twain.ucs.umass.edu with numerous contributions by others.

21 But ... isn't today's marijuana much more potent than it was in the Sixties?

(Or, more often ... Marijuana is 10 times more powerful than
it was in the Sixties!)

GOOD! Actually, this is not true, but if it were, it
would mean that marijuana is safer to smoke today than it
was in the Sixties. (More potent cannabis means less
smoking means less lung damage.) People who use this
statistic just plain do not know what they are talking
about. Sometimes they will even claim that marijuana is now
twenty to thirty times stronger, which is physically
impossible because it would have to be *over* 100%
Delta-9-THC. The truth is, marijuana has not really changed
potency all that much, if at all, in the last several
hundred years. Growing potent cannabis is an ancient art
which has not improved in centuries, despite all our modern
technology. Before marijuana was even made illegal, drug
stores sold tinctures of cannabis which were over 40% THC.

Even so, the point is moot because marijuana smokers engage
in something called `auto-titration.' This basically means
smoking until they are satisfied and then stopping, so it
does not really matter if the marijuana is more potent
because they will smoke less of it. Marijuana is not like
pre-moistened towelettes or snow-cones. There is nothing
forcing marijuana smokers to smoke an entire joint.

Experienced marijuana users are accustomed to smoking
marijuana from many different suppliers, and they know that
if they smoke a whole joint of very potent bud they will get
`TOO STONED'. Since being `too stoned' is a rather
unpleasant experience, smokers quickly learn to take their
time and `test the waters' when they do not know how strong
their marijuana is.

``Cannabis 1988. Old Drug, New Dangers The Potency Debate '' by Todd
H. Mikuriya M.D., Michael R. Aldrich Ph.D. in ``Journal of
Psychoactive Drugs'' Vol. 20 Iss. 1 pp. 47-55 pub. Haight-Ashbury
Publications in association with the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical
Clinic San Francisco, Calif. : January March, 1988.

 

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