Is marijuana stronger now?

[Wendell Wagner]

For those people trying to compare the cost of marijuana today with the cost forty years ago, remember that the cost of everything has done up by a factor of about five and a half. So if marijuana costs less than five and a half times what it cost forty years ago, its price has gone up less than the average inflation rate. In particular, if a quarter-ounce now costs what an ounce cost forty years ago, the price has gone down relative to inflation.