This weekend I bought the first decent bag of pot I've smoked since high school. It was $35 for an eighth and looked like most of it had been ripped from the forest floor and shoved in a bag with a couple brownish nuggets. I think there is actual dirt at the bottom. Anyways, I am beyond psyched with my low-grade shake: All of a sudden I can actually smoke a full joint without surrendering my ability to carry on a conversation or leave my house without feeling like I'm stuck in a giant hamster ball. It's almost more like hash than weed as I've come to know it. According to weed nerds, there's only been a modest increase in the median THC content of marijuana over the past few decades, but as at least three people who like to get moderately stoned that I talked to know, it is getting near impossible to find pot that don't make you feel like you have to go put your head in the freezer just to keep your eyes from drying out. So what's the deal?This British reporter got herself injected with pure THC and a combination of THC and cannabidiol, one of the non-psychoactive components of weed believed to have an anti-psychotic tempering effect on THC. To put it into other-drugs terms, cannabidiol is like the six-pack of beers to THC's finger-sized rail of speed.I'm still not sure what the efficacy of having a stoned person take a psychosis test made for sober people is and her description of the pure THC high as "morbid" sounds more like a product of her being a 30-year-old journalist getting high for the first time and trying to milk it for the camera than an effect of the skunk, but still her experience confirms what I've been yelling for years: Strong weed sucks! It spaces you out too much to be practical for anything other than sitting on the couch for four hours and makes it so you can't do more than a single bong rip before turning in for the night. So weed-growers, if you're reading this: more cannabidiol please.TERRY HAND