Tend to agree. I go by smoke reports. I don't care what the listed THC level is, if a lot of people are swearing that a strain is fire, that's good enough for me.
Exactly! See, most (if anyone at all) don't understand a few things. If you are looking for the affect you could look at the low THC content in White Rhino and watch on youtube the Greenhouse Seeds White Rhino video, and they will even get confused trying to explain that even tho it is low in THC content, it is the Cannabanoids in Synergy that make it way more powerful than Strains with a MUCH higher THC content. So, in fact you can get a 60% THC strain and feel what you would out of the best & correctly focused 20% THC Strain.
As far as Curing cancer and other diseases go... from what I understand the benefit (medicine) is THC alone, but I would be very curious to see what something less concentrated than what Rick Simpson uses to make his weed oil (but with stronger effects) would do in the healing territory.
I would be interested in him to test his White Widow against AK-47 oil and see if AK-47 does the brain tumor curing 10X more efficiently than WW because of the simple fact that the THC concentration does seem to bring blood and oxygen to the brain, but at the same time this could inflame the brain and further cause damage.
Anyways, my point is that the THC content is proven that it is not what gives you the exact effects you may be looking for. Depending on cannabanoids in synergy that are most active within the given THC is what is going to determine intensity. As far as me running my mouth about the oil (LOL!) I was merely explaining that there may be a point in searching for the very highest THC if fighting cancer, BUT it seems there has not been enough time to test strains against different diseases to see what strain would best suit you if you were in search for a cure, and going to turn it into oil.
I will admit, I look at high THC levels, but I also go to a medical mj site to see MMJ patient reviews on strains to get opinions, and see exactly what they help, medically. For Example: If you are looking for the highest THC content because you believe the higher the THC content the happier you will be, then you may end up with an extremely high THC plant that makes you feel extremely bluh, or maybe make your heart so racy that you want to run through the walls where you live, and just be freaked out. Its all about the quality and not the quantity. Just like weed quality/quantity comparison. If I can feel great & relaxed off of 1 to 3 pulls of AK-47, why would I want to buy Skywalker which the Kief wont even hardly give me a buzz? If it takes you 4X more hits to get where you want to be then you spent 4X times the money, or the amount of time and effort to grow those entire 4 plants that could be so strong as 1 X AK-47.
^^^That's not all fact about AK being stronger than a 25+% content plant. I have no experience. I just know I tried AK 8 years ago & was happy before I was half way inhaled. I have never to this day found a true 1 hitter quitter like that, but if someone else knows of some real 1 hitter quitters, please let me know. I HAVE to have that strong of medicine to battle what I am. The pain and other things are so bad that I normally never notice a high, and thats why I really need to go on only strong indicas, and non-racy Sativas.