Syriuslydelyrius
Well-Known Member
I cant wait for marijuana prohibition to end so then we can have the Mythbusters do a special on marijuana-myths!! 
I have a lot of comments to make on a multitude of things here however, lets start by taking the debate over "the more thc the better the weed" totally out of context by talking about of all things a banana split icecream.
Lets say we are all banana split adicts and conasoirs of the perfect banana split. Is the best banana split the one with the biggest amount of one topping or is it the perfect combination of all ingredients that makes the best banana split? So if I were to then go discribe all the differantly made banana splits I have eaten by only giving the % of peanuts this doesnt really tell you much about the total quality or expierence, or taste of the banana split then does it? Useing only the percentile quanity of just one indigrient in a substance that has many indigrients as judge to its quality is a common a misconception for some of us potheads for some reason.
Does everyone that drinks alcohol think that the higher the proof the better the drink? No of course not they pick there favorite booze for many differant reasons like, taste, cost, and other factors up to and including potency but not nessesarly useing potency as the major deciding factor.
It all pretty much comes down to YOUR personal preference and taking a toke or a good honest opinion or discription of the taste, length of buzz, type of buzz, etc from someone who has taken a toke provides you far more valid information to formulate an opinion with than just the THC content as a % calculated without any kind of national standardization or even an explination of what this percentage reading of.
I have also heard of growers "calculating" there own THC percentages by eyeballing the amount of trichome coverage. Reguardless of what the process is and what % it is of Its still all pretty much an illrelivient number that does not give you a fraction of the information about the quality as taking a big bong hit would or even talking to someone about there "big bong hit".
I honestly could careless what some dude in a lab tells me about how strong my weed is reguardless of how accurate the scientific tests were. Now if he tested it with his own lungs I would be glad to listen ROFL....
I have a lot of comments to make on a multitude of things here however, lets start by taking the debate over "the more thc the better the weed" totally out of context by talking about of all things a banana split icecream.
Lets say we are all banana split adicts and conasoirs of the perfect banana split. Is the best banana split the one with the biggest amount of one topping or is it the perfect combination of all ingredients that makes the best banana split? So if I were to then go discribe all the differantly made banana splits I have eaten by only giving the % of peanuts this doesnt really tell you much about the total quality or expierence, or taste of the banana split then does it? Useing only the percentile quanity of just one indigrient in a substance that has many indigrients as judge to its quality is a common a misconception for some of us potheads for some reason.
Does everyone that drinks alcohol think that the higher the proof the better the drink? No of course not they pick there favorite booze for many differant reasons like, taste, cost, and other factors up to and including potency but not nessesarly useing potency as the major deciding factor.
It all pretty much comes down to YOUR personal preference and taking a toke or a good honest opinion or discription of the taste, length of buzz, type of buzz, etc from someone who has taken a toke provides you far more valid information to formulate an opinion with than just the THC content as a % calculated without any kind of national standardization or even an explination of what this percentage reading of.
Mindphuk, Just what and how its being mesured is the golden question. From reading what I quoted you on I am thinking that I have interpreted what Marijauna Man said in those videos differantly than you did. He stated that he wondered what this was a % of just like you asked above. He then went on to say that "it cant be a % of THC to plant material because just the resin heads alone are only 1 to 3% of the plant material. He continued explain "it could be % of THC compaired to other cannabinoides it would make more sence but...." and "If this is not A weight raito test then why does this percentage go up with hash/butter". So if we even asume that a trichome is 100% THC which it isnt these trichomes are only still only 1 to 3% of the plant material so how can we have plants testing at 20-30% which sort of leads you to belive that it cant be a weight ratio test and if its not a weight ratio test then purified samples wouldnt test higher if were a THC/other cannabinoide percentage unless your purification process is also removeing those other cannabinoides.Thanks. I started to watch the link but was at work and the computer was sans speakers.
I just did watch this and he got some of the science wrong. He said that "the THC represents such a small percentage of the contents of the resin head, that mostly filled with the sticky goo that comes from the terpenes."
Wrong. He needs to go back and listen to himself. The terpenes are within the plastids. The sticky goo he referred to is the very cannibinoids that his science quote accurately said this ooze continues to be forced into the resin head and globs emerge as vessicles are covered with bits of this mat..."
These glandular trichomes swell with this THC laden material. His last few photomicrographs where too high of magnification. It was like looking at the skin of a balloon but not looking at the volume of air within the balloon. Here's picture showing everything under the subcuticular layer he was for some reason showing us.
The gray secretory cavity is filled with cannibinoids and THC! That's what's making them swell up. When he kept saying THC was such a small percentage of the trichome, I knew he was confused. It looks like MM was too high to understand the science in his own presentation
Once he understands what a huge percentage, at least by volume of the capitate head of the stalked trichome, is made up of THC and the other cannabinoids, it will be easier for him to understand why percentage of THC goes up with concentration techniques like hash and budder.
I have also heard of growers "calculating" there own THC percentages by eyeballing the amount of trichome coverage. Reguardless of what the process is and what % it is of Its still all pretty much an illrelivient number that does not give you a fraction of the information about the quality as taking a big bong hit would or even talking to someone about there "big bong hit".
I honestly could careless what some dude in a lab tells me about how strong my weed is reguardless of how accurate the scientific tests were. Now if he tested it with his own lungs I would be glad to listen ROFL....
