Interesting argument for the legalization of weed, actually.
Weed is illegal, so the average consumer of weed is limited in terms of what quality of weed is available. One can invest a lot of time and effort into a home hydroponics setup to grow higher quality weed, but that involves taking on the potential risk of arrest which carries a more harsh penalty based on the "possession with intent to distribute" charge.
On the other hand, one can just get high on lower-quality weed, spend far less money, and reduce the risk of both discovery and prosecution by having only as much prohibited material as you intend to smoke in a short amount of time. The evidence is gone once smoked, after all. It isn't as good a high and smells far worse, but it's safer and cheaper.
Now, if weed were legalized, either as a commercial product or better yet allowing home cultivation for personal use, you'd see a variety of product available. Home hydroponics can produce some high-quality smoke, after all, and commercial ventures would vary in quality just like they do in every other legal consumable market.
I'm not a smoker and never had been, but being a teen in the 70s means I can tell the difference.
A few years at a Pink Floyd concert, we sat beind some guy who were smoking some pretty rank weed. Made us cough and eyes water.
After the intermission they were complaining about already coming down. But were bummed that they had smoked it all just to get high in the first place.
They did not enjoy the 2nd act as they were crashing really hard and even left before the encore because they all nasty headaches.
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Weed is illegal, so the average consumer of weed is limited in terms of what quality of weed is available. One can invest a lot of time and effort into a home hydroponics setup to grow higher quality weed, but that involves taking on the potential risk of arrest which carries a more harsh penalty based on the "possession with intent to distribute" charge.
On the other hand, one can just get high on lower-quality weed, spend far less money, and reduce the risk of both discovery and prosecution by having only as much prohibited material as you intend to smoke in a short amount of time. The evidence is gone once smoked, after all. It isn't as good a high and smells far worse, but it's safer and cheaper.
Now, if weed were legalized, either as a commercial product or better yet allowing home cultivation for personal use, you'd see a variety of product available. Home hydroponics can produce some high-quality smoke, after all, and commercial ventures would vary in quality just like they do in every other legal consumable market.
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A few years at a Pink Floyd concert, we sat beind some guy who were smoking some pretty rank weed. Made us cough and eyes water.
After the intermission they were complaining about already coming down. But were bummed that they had smoked it all just to get high in the first place.
They did not enjoy the 2nd act as they were crashing really hard and even left before the encore because they all nasty headaches.