10inchadvantage said:
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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