If THC potency had a sound barrier, a new Michigan marijuana strain should be named “Chuck Yeager.” Instead, it’s named Frogurt, produced by Endo, which operates grow facilities and a retail store in Adrian.
Lab tests shared with MLive show the strain surpassed 41 percent THC potency, a threshold previously thought impossible to surpass.
The potentially record-breaking weed has garnered a large amount of attention on social media, including from skeptics, who question the validity of the test results.
“I even questioned it,” said Jason Herron, who grew it. Herron, who started growing as a medical marijuana caregiver in 2010 before becoming Endo’s director of cultivation, said the strain was tested three times, each result surpassing 40 percent, with one approaching 42 percent.
He said his grow’s flower regularly reaches potency in the high 30s, but this is the first over 40 percent.
“A lot of people are making comments, saying it’s not possible,” Herron said. He’s been accused of spraying the marijuana with high-potency THC or sprinkling on kief — highly potent plant residue — to inflate results.
“I can guarantee none of that happened,” he said. “I don’t ever want to be accused of cheating. That’s what’s bothered me with some of this stuff.
“But at the end of the day, I know what I do in the garden. I don’t cheat.”
Herron said he’s always had the marijuana his company grows tested at North Coast Testing Laboratories in Adrian, a business he fully trusts. According to CRA records, North Coast Testing Laboratories first received its license in July 2020 and has never been the subject of a CRA complaint, according to online regulatory records.
There are online claims the Cannabis Regulatory Agency is double-checking the test results, although representatives wouldn’t confirm or refute rumors.
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