You may have heard a relatively sustained drumbeat in the mainstream press reports in the past few years regarding the content of current illicit cannabis products. It has been promulgated in a PR campaign which attempts to convince baby boomers that today's marijuana is more dangerous than that of their own misbegotten youth because it is "stronger". In other words, higher in the concentration of the major psychoactive constituent, Δ9-THC. The subtext, I assume, is to alleviate the boomer parents of today's teens of any guilt related to communicating seemingly hypocritical anti-dope messages. If the pot today is more dangerous, then it is not hypocritical that Daddy and Mommy used to smoke in the seventies, right?
Coherent Thoughts On Marijuana
Now, don't let the byline fool you: This post is a hard look at marijuana potency, the war on drugs, and putting them in context.