I’m not a scientist, okay, nor am I an expert, or any sort of budtender.
I am a smoker, plus have been an avid smoker for our entire adult life.
I can’t tell you all of the scientific reasons for the physical and psychoactive effects pot has on a person, I just suppose what they are. Because of our formal lack of knowledge I have never been able to grow our own, but I have cultivated a truly expert eye, plus a legendary pallet for distinguishing the quality of any bud. The nose knows, as they say, plus I can suss out the THC content of any cannabis you provide me within 5 minutes. I don’t need any fancy or costly tools, I just need to stink the bud, pack up a few hits, plus then taste it to determine the percentage of THC content. While this skill is not enough to score me a job at the cannabis shop, it has made me quite popular around there! One night I stayed after closing with a few of the other budtenders, who tried to stump me with a series of exotic strains of cannabis. I went more than three for three that night, being able to accurately suss out the THC content after a few puffs, so everyone was entirely impressed. A few weeks after that, I got a phone call from the manager of the cannabis dispensary who asked me for a little help. They had just acquired a small shipment of cannabis from a new distributor, plus the clients had been saying it was weak stuff, and he asked me to come in as “quality control” plus determine precisely how strong this medical cannabis was.