{"id":9539,"date":"2022-08-19T07:39:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T07:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2022\/08\/19\/armentano-marijuana-potency-warrants-more-education-regulation\/135806\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T07:39:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T07:39:05","slug":"armentano-marijuana-potency-warrants-more-education-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/armentano-marijuana-potency-warrants-more-education-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Armentano: Marijuana potency warrants more education, regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/armentano-marijuana-potency-warrants-more-education-regulation\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/040218legalpot004-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/armentano-marijuana-potency-warrants-more-education-regulation.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/armentano-marijuana-potency-warrants-more-education-regulation-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<p>Those offering\u00a0dire warnings\u00a0about the alleged dangers of so-called \u201chighly potent pot\u201d \u2014 and\u00a0demanding\u00a0that these products be recriminalized \u2014 are taking their cues from an age-old playbook.<\/p>\n<p>From the onset of criminal cannabis prohibition, criminalization advocates have sought to rationalize their position by greatly exaggerating the supposed strength of marijuana. In the 1930s, while lobbying for the passage of the first-ever federal ban on cannabis, Bureau of Narcotics Commissioner Henry Anslinger\u00a0testified to Congress\u00a0that the marijuana of a century ago was so uniquely potent that it was \u201centirely the monster Hyde, the harmful effect of which cannot be measured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to justify the marijuana crackdown of the 1980s,\u00a0former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F. Gates opined\u00a0that advanced growing techniques had increased the potency of THC, the primary psychoactive ingredient in the plant, to the point that \u201cthose who blast some pot on a casual basis \u2026 should be taken out and shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2022\/08\/15\/armentano-marijuana-potency-warrants-more-education-regulation\/\">Read the rest of this story on BostonHerald.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those offering\u00a0dire warnings\u00a0about the alleged dangers of so-called \u201chighly potent pot\u201d \u2014 and\u00a0demanding\u00a0that these products be recriminalized \u2014 are taking their cues from an age-old playbook. From the onset of criminal cannabis prohibition, criminalization advocates have sought to rationalize their position by greatly exaggerating the supposed strength of marijuana. In the 1930s, while lobbying for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8232,9,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[8234],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}