Weird Statistic that I think is inacurrate

Today, we watched an awareness video on Marijuana today and it said that marijuana potency has increased by 7 to 10 times higher than it was 20 years ago. How could they know that?

 

I've heard from numerous places that the experiments conducted all those years ago were done with leaves and male plants and shit. Who knows if it's true, but it could account for that statistic.

 

i have also heard this and i think it is because of all the the newer strands that have been created such as white widow which is very strong compared to the mexican brick weed that most people had in the 60s and 70s

 

Nah, there was some good weed back then, according to people that actually smoked back then. But the authorities always say that the potency has increased drastically over the years. I am pretty sure there was some potey in the 60's, but the genetics and growing techniques have definitely improved. I certainly don't think it's 7-10 times more potent, though. But what do I know, I wasn't born until 1983.

 

yeah i don't know either that is just what i have been told

 

thats bull shit



http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_myth2.shtml

also

8. Marijuana is more potent today than in the past

This myth is the result of bad data. The researchers who made
the claim of increased potency used as their baseline the THC
content of marijuana seized by police in the early 1970s. Poor
storage of this marijuana in un-air conditioned evidence rooms
caused it to deteriorate and decline in potency before any chemical
assay was performed. Contemporaneous, independent assays of
unseized "street" marijuana from the early 1970s showed a potency
equivalent to that of modern "street" marijuana. Actually, the
most potent form of this drug that was generally available was sold
legally in the 1920s and 1930s by the pharmaceutical company
Smith-Klein under the name, "American Cannabis".

 

Yeah, from what I've read, the potency tests were used with the leaves, and not the actual bud. And the thing about a J being equal to 4 cigarettes or whatever, they rolled a joint from leaves that had been sitting in a hot police locker for at least 6 months, and it was shitty weed to begin wiht.

 

probably medical marijuana has increase over the years.but home grown stays the same

 

The average potency of marijuana probably has gone up a bit due to new strains, growing techniques, etc.; but the statement that its potency has gone up 7-10 precent is pure bullshit. This is another scare tactic that tries to get people to believe that just because marijuana today has a higher average potency than marijuana in the past that it is more harmful to the brain and lungs, which is completely false. Even if marijuana was somehow 7-10 times as potent than pot in the past, that would be a good thing. You would have to smoke alot less to get high, saving your lungs quite a bit of smoking.

 

Cultivating potent cannabis is an ancient hobby.

 

it doesnt matter about those stats caus theyre based on like single studies, and potency checks can only be made on many sales around whole areas, with the weed stored in decent storage, which would never be funded since there are so many other factors involved to be an accurate study

 

If weed is so much more potent now then int he 60s and 70s then why would seed companies top selling products be strains such as northern lights, haze, big bud, etc. which were all around back then?

Smart smart man:

Blind_Melon_Chitlin'Even if marijuana was somehow 7-10 times as potent than pot in the past, that would be a good thing. You would have to smoke alot less to get high, saving your lungs quite a bit of smoking.

 

Well, back in the day most of the MJ was the descendent of escaped hemp plantation plants. See, after the cotton gin was invented Hemp became uneconomical, so most people switched to cotton, but the species was already introduced to this continent. The plantation-derived MJ wasn't as good as the shit we get nowadays, because the plants were bred to have bigger stems and more seeds (they kept those and threw the buds away), not higher potency (most people would smoke hash instead of the actual buds).
But, after almost seventy years of prohibition means that people are going to be trying their damndest to breed higher-potency strains because it makes alot more money, so you have advances in growing techniques, and advanced breeding that leads to a more potent form of MJ.
Also, the higher the potency= the less plant matter that needs to be smoked= fewer health risks.