Today's Weed Really Is Not 'Your Father's Marijuana'

Really? We needed science to tell us this?
 

One of the favorite claims of opponents of marijuana legalization is that pot today "is not your father's marijuana"—it is instead much stronger, and therefore, the unspoken corollary implies, somehow more dangerous. It increasingly looks like those folks are correct about pot being stronger, but off the mark when it comes to it being riskier.

As someone who has been smoking the stuff since 1969, my personal opinion is, well, duh! I remember all too well the Mexican brick weed from back in the day and the relatively crappy high it produced. I also remember being exposed to stronger weed, even way back then.

Back in 1972, one of my Midwestern teenage weed head buddies traveled to Southern California and returned bearing the fabled Thai Stick. I have no

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