10inchadvantage said:The whole "weed is 20x stronger now than back then" is a pretty shotty assumption. From the arguments I have read, the DEA samples from back in the 60s was dirt weed which was stored in bad conditions, so naturally it's going to be very low THC. Now, growing techniques HAVE gotten more sophisticated, bringing the overall quality up of weed out there, however, I have still run across shit shit shit grass weed that didn't get you but a tiny bit high (some bad Mexican brick shit). Also, there is some really good schwag out there from Mexico which looks like dirt but is still quite strong. They still had exotics and top quality weed back in the 60s, like Colombian Gold and Panama Red, the sativas. While these weren't probably grown under sophisticated lights or anything, stoners from back in the day say that some strains they smoked in the 60s and 70s is stronger than anything they have ever had today. I'd imagine it was MUCH harder to come across true "chronic headies" back in the day, but it doesn't mean that there wasn't stronger pot back then than anything we have ever smoked, just that it was much more rare.
I do notice that a lot of people do like to brag how much they smoke, conversely, I like to brag about how much I DON'T smoke. Even so, it seems that I have a lower tolerance for THC in my system as I generally get noticeably higher than my smoking partners on the same or even less amounts of weed. A lot of people don't learn that there is a limit to smoking in a session, that once you hit a point it's pretty fruitless to try and smoke more to get higher. It takes time and experience to find that, but once you learn that it doesn't take much at all to get a good high going it's much easier on your lungs and your wallet.
Mm, so far as the 20X THC thing, I'm pretty sure that I've seen it verified in different articles and such that the pot that we smoke today is significantly stronger than a few decades ago. You have to understand, people have been engineering different strains for year and years in order to increase the THC content and there have been thousands of different seed generations since the 60s and 70s. The figure may not be exact, but I'm fairly positive that the average potency has gone up exponentially since pot entered into mainstream usage during the birth of the counter culture. I'm sure strong weed was still around in places, but it is overall more powerful and a hell of a lot easier to find these days. The chemical process for testing THC content is pretty simple as I understand it and during the 60s and 70s the government confiscated and tested tons of weed (it was once considered a huge cultural crisis and the FBI and other government agencies were terribly concerned with the idea of widespread pot smoking), so I doubt sample volume and quality impacted the perception of how strong dope was back then. Everything I've ever read on the topic has suggested that quality has gone up a good deal, even for shitty weed.
With the Mexican stuff, be careful. This is possibly true for almost any pot you buy, but one thing I do remember clearly from a NJH article is that Mexican and Central American pot often contains infectious hepatitus and some pretty nasty bacteria and handling it can infect you. I know you're located in Texas so stuff from south of the border is probably unavoidable, but honestly you'd be better off getting hooked up with a local grower. Look around on the internet and talk to people, one shouldn't be too hard to find. It's just easier and better when you have a reliable and direct source.
In regards to getting high easier than your friends, I'm the same way. Smoking pot elicits almost 2000 chemical reactions in your brain, so it affects everybody pretty differently. That's the reason some people just get paranoid and tired and don't like smoking, but others feel enlightened and atuned and love getting stoned. It's also why some people can smoke a hell of a lot more than others. I was grateful that I could get really high without too much trouble, even if I was smoking very regularly. As Robomonkey mentioned, why would you want it to be a difficult process? Consider yourself lucky.
The people that claim they've smoked an ounce in a day and other crazy boasts - you show me a human being that can sit down and smok an ounce of dope taking real solid hits from a pipe or bong in even an eight hour period, and I'll show you a fucking abominable snowman. It's like lifting, sex, fishing, dick size, whatever - kids talk a lot of shit. If people think they've really smoked these gigantic quantities in a single session, then they're dealing with some really, really weak pot. There's a certain inebreation level that any human being hits. Even seasoned alcoholics with huge tolerences couldn't drink multiple fifths of liquor in an evening unless they had some kind of physical irregularity, and I don't see why THC inebriation is any different. At a certain point, your brain is going to shut down no matter how radical of a smoker you are.
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