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The glossy spread in "High Times" a magazine for pot devotees, showcases the "strongest strains on Earth." The most recent rankings are topped by "Head Cheese," which is grown in a hydroponic system and fed with a carefully calibrated dose of synthetic nutrients. On "Weed Tracker," a California-based website where medical marijuana users share notes, cannabis connoisseurs sing the praises of "Sensi Star" and rave about the "Grand Daddy Purple, which tastes like a berry vanilla smoothie." Another medical site touts a bud "finished with a subtle fruit effect ... offering a deep body stone with a creative mind high," and warns it is "not for newbies or low-tolerance patients." The descriptions evoke images of a wine-tasting club -- albeit one with a few eccentrics. But increasingly it seems the most valued trait among these weed admirers is pure knockout power. The intoxicating chemical in marijuana is tetrahydracannabinol, or THC. While a handful of growers are finessing strains to provide a medical benefit without the high the majority aim to push THC content as high as it will go according to government data. In the annual Cannabis Cup competition, where marijuana enthusiasts gather to try pot from various places and vote on their favorites, the most potent strains have a THC content of around 25%, according to testing commissioned by the organizers at High Times. But at the University of Mississippi, in a laboratory that tracks the potency of marijuana seized by federal law enforcement officers, they've found even higher levels -- as high as 37%, according to Dr. Mahmoud ElSohly, the director of the Marijuana Potency Project. Since 1972, ElSohly says, the average THC content of marijuana has soared from less than 1% to 3 to 4% in the 1990s, to nearly 13% today.