Cultivators, researchers, Budtenders and dispensary owners, are all begging you to stop chasing numbers and follow your nose for the best strains for you. Sure, use the numbers as a guideline but prioritizing high THC percentages can be bad for dispensaries, farms and you as a consumer.
In Canada they toyed around with the idea of making prices higher for higher THC items. If you keep prioritizing the high THC it will ruin the market, and possibly make your cannabis more expensive in the future.
Buying flower based solely on the THC listed on the label is bad for the cannabis industry.
Number chasers make way for falsified lab results.
If the only flower that is selling is has a high percentage on the label then more farmers (out of desperation) will go to labs that will take a bribe in order to give them a higher percentage on their test results.
Labs are not regulated throughout the country to give you the same result so I would be very wary of anyone saying that their cannabis reached a level of THC over 33%.
That means that over a third of the plant is THC trichomes... Which is basically impossible.
And a high number does not equal an amazing effect, THC percentages just magnify the effects that come from terpenes.
Your nose is going to tell you more about how good a strain is than the THC percentage on the label.
