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I can tell you that definitively that outdoor grown marijuana is far far superior, most especially in THC content, to hydroponically grown pot.

Hydroponic cannabis agriculture is driven singularly and solely because it is too risky to grow cannabis outdoors. Traditionally, agriculture takes place out-of-doors, particularly commercial-scale agriculture.

The global system, that begins with the UN and its 3 "Single Conventions on Narcotics Abuse and Control," from the years 1961, 1971 and 1988, which force countries to criminalize cannabis, and other drugs, as a pre-condition for (continued) UN membership, is responsible for a law enforcement massive over-emphasis on the "drug crime," of having consumed dried plants in order to have a temporary change in mood occur.

For example there are circa 350 simple cannabis possession arrests every day in New York City alone, the most of any city in the world. Between 1993 and 2006, 10 million people in the USA alone have been arrested on simple cannabis possession charges. Ten Million people, according to annual FBI crime Statistics.

Strange that consuming a dried plant for a mood alteration is just OK when that plant is called tobacco. One wonders. "why the double standard?"

In any case, the recent explosion in indoor hydroponically grown cannabis is driven by prohibition of cannabis (agriculture), and -not- by the goal of creating the most or the strongest cannabis, which is what the many would have you believe. That -cannot- be done inside.

I will invite you to compare the cannabis in California and British Colombia which is grown outdoors to the best indoor pot to be found in Amsterdam in a given year.

When you do this, and you are a medical cannabis patient, like me, you would leave Amsterdam for California, too, even if you love Amsterdam intrinsically, outside of its cannabis culture.

Eric Johnson, Los Angeles