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Written by Reggie Dankers
As THC percentages continue to soar, some smokers are opting for less potent pot. Whether you’re nostalgic for the days of mellow weed or simply seeking a daytime smoke for a functional buzz, here’s everything you need to know about high-quality, low-THC cannabis.
How high can you get before it brings you down? How low can THC go before it doesn’t get you high? There’s a question that’s recently been on many minds: Is our pot too potent?
Some people view this as a quality-versus-quantity issue, but are these properties mutually exclusive? If you talk about weed with one of those OG acid-dropping, protest-rocking, barefoot hippies from the 1960s, they always comment on how strong the pot is these days.
Careful selective breeding took the old-school powerhouse strains (Thai, Colombian, etc.) and turned them into the creatively named strains we know and love today. At this point, with THC percentages in the high 20s to low 30s, academic botanists marvel at cannabis’s ability to produce the most active drug substance of any plant in nature.
We may have gone as potent as the plant can take us, so it makes sense that people would want to go in the other direction.
This isn’t the man coming in and telling you to dial it back; the low-THC trend is native to the cannabis community, however counterintuitive that may seem.
Who are these low-THC fans? How did this trend start? What are the advantages of low-THC pot? We’ll explore these and other questions in the following pages, and, who knows, we may convince some of you naysayers to reconsider