Average potency in the legal market has climbed steadily over the past two decades, and advertised numbers have risen even faster than measured ones. Figures attached to high thc seeds now routinely exceed thirty percent, a level that independent researchers say is rarely reproduced when the same flower is retested by a neutral laboratory. Differences in testing methodology, sample selection, and commercial pressure on labs all contribute to the gap. Treating any figure above the mid-twenties with some skepticism is reasonable.