Thanks Brick Top for that info. I'd also like to point out that it isn't about absolute THC levels, it's about the party. I mean I could go over to the neighbors and beer bong some grain alcohol, or I could sit around and drink a few, kick back and play some guitar. Yes the grain has a higher alcohol content, but is that the point?
You might have made a valid point if people only toked at parties or at gatherings and that none were like George Thorogood's song, "I Drink Alone" and realize that much of the time some people to toke alone or maybe just with their wife or their girlfriend or whoever. More people in a general area do not increase the potency of pot no matter what activities are going on.
As for grain alcohol, I very seldom drink but when I do it's some good old fashioned North Carolina Moonshine for me. If you know someone who knows how to make it, it's smoother than a teenage girl's thighs but will hit you harder than Little Boy and Fat Man hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Having smoked some of the ancient weed being discussed, (thank God I invented fire), I can tell you that some of it knocked me on my ass. You know, check my driver's license so I can remember my name and where I live. I don't know how much THC was in that pot. I do know it was more than enough to stone me stupid. Back then my dealer, Thag, could get the good shit whenever you wanted, when he wasn't doing cave drawings.
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One final rhetorical question, does 14% THC get me that much more stoned than 13%?
Actual THC percentages are semi-meaningless when it comes to how potent any given weed will be. THC works in conjunction with various other cannabinoids. Some other cannabinoids will enhance the affects of THC and others will detract from it. Someone could smoke a strain with a true 18% level of THC and not be nearly as high or as stoned as another strain with a true 12% level of THC if the 18% THC strain has a large enough percentage of cannabinoids that detract from the affects of THC..
The puppies of today are totally hung up on high THC levels, high THC levels, high THC levels but they totally fail to realize that it is the mixture, the blend the combination of THC and other cannabinoids together that need to be in proper proportions for true potency to exist.
They have been propagandized into believing that THC levels alone are all important and that higher 'claimed' levels of THC is a guarantee of more potency.
One thing that always makes me chuckle is how so many puppies actually believe that if they grow a true high THC level strain, let's just say 20% for an example, that their harvested crop will in fact have a 20% THC level. They actually believe that it is guaranteed.
They fail to understand that as important as genetics are they are just the starting line and after that conditions/environment and skill take over. Without that they will never get close to the THC level the genetics could give them. It is impossible to start with low grade genetics and grow them beyond their genetic limits, but it is easier than falling off a log to start with very high grade genetics and not come close to reaching its maximum potential.
I have read messages from people with ghetto-grow setups and people who say they haven't changed their HID bulb(s) in years and they still look more than bright enough to them, and I see some people way they do not use ferts, or hardly use them, or use ones I wouldn't use if you paid me to use them. Then after harvest they brag about how they have some 20% THC level herb to toke .. and totally fail to realize that between their nearly worthless setup, poor conditions and environment, and lack of skill and many times HORRIBLE drying processes and no curing that they might actually be toking weed with about an 8% or 12% level of THC, if that .... but because the breeder claim said 20%, no matter how poorly they did their part, in their minds the 20% was a guarantee and they ended up with 20%. They also fail to realize, and will of course totally refuse to accept, that if their crop were tested using the same procedures used in the 60's and 70's that the THC level would likely come in around 2% to 5%.
As frustrating as today's puppies can at times be, if nothing else they are good for a big belly laugh now and then!
you'll never know since you can't go back ~ but then who gives a shit? smoke what you want and think what you want. more sativa for ME lol
Its all about INDICA. Indica makes Wayy More $$$$ than Sativa @ least here in Cali. =/ Sativa makes me worry about shit, Indica makes me say Fk that shit.
20-40 ft. Marijuana Trees.. 1 thing I wish I could have witnessed.