[HDawg]

I'm not claiming to have any solutions here, but speaking from personal experience, I believe the WOD is the best thing to happen to marijuana. In the 1970s and early 80s, before the govenment started cracking down hard on marijuana growers, most pot was grown outdoors, in Mexico and the Corn Belt, having a THC level at 3-5% at best. The WOD forced the growers to move indoors, where they would have complete control over the 5 factors for growing optimum plants: water, soil nutrients, light, temperature, and carbon dioxide levels. Also, many of these growers, being talented botanists, could crossbread the older, now obsolete plants to produce marijuana plants genetically superior and a lot more potent to anything produced in the past, which can be cloned again and again. Now most marijuana sold has a THC level of 12-20%.

[Drammach]

While I cannot argue the merits of whether THC levels have increased since the 60's or 70's, I would argue that todays' pot is not any better than yesterdays' pot.
Fact is, my observances are that todays' pot sucks.
I haven't had a good high since 1981, and the ocassional hits I have had since that time were useless.
People tell me they have this really great shit, try it, they paid $125 for 1/4 oz., and it does nothing.

We used to go out and harvest our own, in Kentucky and Missouri, and a couple of hits would give you halucigenetic flashes.
It's been 20 years now, and I have seen nothing like that, and besides, it's way too expensive.
Supposed THC levels aside, today's stuff wouldn't get a fly high.