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Value Of Illegal Marijuana Crops Up For Debate

Hippie-era marijuana users would find today’s drug not only more expensive, but much more potent. The cost of marijuana 40 years ago — generally $10 per ounce — is about 30 times more expensive today, according to Panama Red, who blogs on the pro-marijuana Web site budlife420.com

And he agrees with law enforcement officials that pot is more powerful now. When marijuana was imported from Mexico back then, entire plants — including non-psychoactive stems and seeds — were compressed by smugglers using devices such as car jacks. They would then cut the pot into 12-by-6-by-3-inch sections and sell it as “bricks,” or “keys,” which was shorthand for kilos — 2.2 pounds.

Since then, cultivators have used genetic engineering to increase the potency of the drug. It is uncommon for dealers to sell — or buyers to want — anything but the psychoactive buds.

“TEN Times Stronger Than Dad’s Stuff”
Government claims of highly potent pot must be taken with a grain of salt. As is the case with any black market commodity, definitive facts are difficult if not impossible to come by. That said, even by the University of Mississippi’s own admission, the average THC in domestically grown marijuana — which comprises the bulk of the US market — is less than five percent, a figure that’s remained unchanged for nearly a decade.

“Parents are often unaware that today’s marijuana is different from that of a generation ago, with potency levels 10 to 20 times stronger than the marijuana with which they were familiar.”
John P. Walters, US Drug Czar
01 May 2002 Washington Post, p. A25.

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You got it. Exactly right. It’s hard to convince people who know from personal experience that pot is perfectly safe to lie to other people and tell them it’s dangerous. So they try to distinguish the pot they used from the pot currently being used. I’d like to think most people would see through this, but most people are idiots.

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The potency thing isn’t because it’s dangerous, it’s to give people my age an out so we can fool ourselves that we’re not hypocrites for telling our children to just say no to the drugs that are on the ‘list’.

I still recall a night in 1979 when I had a bag of primo Panama Red and ended up listening to Gregorian chants at this total psycho’s house basically tripping off the cannabis. The average potency may be higher nowadays, but that’s just another deception by statistic. There is no way today’s cannabis is more than marginally better than that which could make Gregorian chants a thrilling experience.

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But indeed, it never ceases to amaze me that people applaud as they readily consent to the removal of their rights. I think they somehow get the idea that since they themselves are not criminals, they are giving up rights they will never need. They just don’t understand what a “right” actually is.

I always wanted to go to Australia, but now I think I’ll add it to the list of places to which I have no intention to travel.

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Potency is a red herring. Average users today may find Ganja that is more potent than decades ago but users simply use less to get the same effect with less smoke. Even 30 years ago, much more potent strains than are normally used today were available, but were seldom used. As with alcohol and tobacco, users generally prefer milder versions. Alcapolka Gold, Panama Red or Vietnam Tea, Thai stick. Many kynd buds were also found in various locations in the states. I’ve smoked some War Protest pot from Indiana that was as good as Florida sinsemilla. Mo Potent Mo expensive. Less toked. Drug worriers are running out of fiction. Hobgoblins ain’t working they way they did with full censorship. This is a red flag that the person spouting it is a moron. You can play with them until it gets boring, but mostly they aren’t dangerous. They built a house of lies and its starting to rain truth down upon them. Destined to be drug worriers without a home. Don’t feed the red herrings.

Pot Potency? Boomers’ blissfully unfazed by mere facts.

The overall strength of marijuana available in Europe has remained stable despite claims from US officials and others that it has increased significantly in recent years, according to a study released by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.

Virtues’ of Ganja

The Ganjawar Fraud

The Counterculture Colonel

Drug War Distortions

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I think the great storyteller Ron Shock would disagree. (the Australia starts half on the first video, is finished on the second)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JMNHegbNdY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM_zj6xLIJY&feature=related

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The idea of federalism–multiple jurisdictions, both side-by-side and overlapping–is the way to solve this. If you let people participate in molding society or leaving (cf. Exit, loyalty, voice by Hirschmann), they will take a more practical and less ideological approach.

Let a thousand flowers bloom. Let a thousand drug policies bloom. (Australia is a BIG, sparsely populated country.) Most experiments are failures. A few will succeed, some by dumb luck. The solution will not spring, fully-formed, like Athena emerging from Zeus’s forehead.

Try. Fail. Try.

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