Can this San Francisco company's 'dad weed' get you high?

Jamie Feaster might be the only pot dealer in California who doesn’t mind if you call his cannabis “dad weed,” a word usually reserved for weak pot that California hasn't seen since the 1990s. But for Feaster, the founder of San Francisco’s Country Cannabis, selling weak weed is basically his goal.

Decades of careful cannabis breeding by pot farmers have blasted the potency of America’s weed into outer space. In 1995, America’s cannabis had an average strength of 4% THC, the active compound used to measure pot potency. The pot sold in California's pot shops today often boasts potency over 40% THC, a 900% increase in THC potency.

High potency pot dominates the legal weed industry and it’s become almost impossible to find the low-THC weed that was common 30 years ago. Only 1% of flower products sold in California this year contained less than 14% THC, according to data shared with SFGATE from Flowhub, a cannabis analytics firm. And the vast majority of pot sold this year, more than 80%, tested at over 21% THC.

Imagine if the beer industry followed this same path and nearly every light beer in the country was replaced with a bottle of whiskey. That’s essentially what happened to America’s legal pot industry.

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