The State Wants More Accurate THC Ratings on Pot, But May Be Missing the Main Culprit

LESTER BLACK | Dec 5th, 2016

If you were a fly on the wall of a pot shop, you would see a common shopping process repeated: The budtender presents a few baggies of cannabis, the shopper checks out how the bud looks, and then immediately turns the package over to read the package’s THC potency levels. In the world of legal weed, we no longer must rely on a dealer’s claim that “this is the good stuff.” We have chemical tests to compare the objective strength of every cannabis product on the shelves.

But just how accurate are those THC readings?

The State Wants More Accurate THC Ratings on Pot, But May Be Missing the Main Culprit