Concerns over marijuana's alleged increase in potency are powered by panic and mayhem, and ignores basic facts about medication. Unlike powder or liquid drugs, you're able to test the potency with that first puff. The smoker judges when he or she has had enough to smoke. The higher the potency, the less the person has to smoke, thus avoiding the most harmful side effects of smoking an herb. The purer the medication, the less you need.

Also the higher the potency the longer the medicinal effects last, although different strains themselves produce a unique euphoric state, varying in length.