“Today’s marijuana is 300 to 800 percent more potent than the pot of yesteryear” claimed SAM New England’s Heidi Heilman in her commentary in Rhode Island’s Providence Journal on March 13, 2014.
It turns out she is right.
PolitiFact, the fact checking website, vetted this statement and rules it “TRUE” while providing the research to back up this judgment.
A 300 to 800 percent increase in potency reflects a 4 to 9 times increase over your Woodstock weed or baby boomer bong hit. Parents and voters would do well to ask what other facts SAM has got right. For example: Marijuana is addictive.
If anyone is thinks that today’s calculated deception by Big Marijuana is anything but a drive towards the creation of another addiction-based mega industry with serious public health side affects — they’re seriously deluded.
Marijuana this potent has impacts on health that are radically different from days gone by.