In my last column, I interviewed Elvy Musikka, one of two remaining Americans to receive medical marijuana from the federal government, which is grown at the University of Mississippi. We were both curious about the potency and terpenes in the six pounds of cannabis pre-rolls provided to her every year, so I took a few to Green Leaf Lab to be tested.
The results are in: The total THC for this federally grown weed tested at 5.328 percent, with 5.191 percent being THCA ( a non-intoxicating cannabinoid). The terpenes were a vastly underwhelming .2676 percent. (For you fellow weed nerds, the full results of this test are at the bottom of this page.)
How does this compare to what’s on the shelves of Oregon dispensaries? I asked Anthony DiFalco, the sales and marketing director of Green Leaf Lab. “The total THC [in the federally grown cannabis] was well below the typical flower cannabinoid content we see at the lab for recreational marijuana intended for sale within a licensed dispensary,” he wrote. “[In most Oregon] flower we see tests in the 20 to 30 percent total THC range.”
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