You'd think that would work, but it doesn't and I don't know why. Maybe because you still get the same % in the hit but it just doesn't last as long? For people that use vaporizers like mine, you also need to have a certain amount for the vaporizer to be effective otherwise you get nothing out of it which leads to inserting even more weed and suddenly you have more in your system than you meant to. The higher percentage stuff is an instant panic attack for me whereas the low percentage allows me to actually enjoy it. I have an extreme sensitivity to cannabis though, so this doesn't apply to everyone, but I'm also far from alone on this. I personally don't care if they sell high % concentrations as long as they make the lower concentrations available too for people like me. Unfortunately finding the low-dose stuff seems to be very difficult. I ended up growing my own low-dose strain though and it's been excellent so far.

It’s kind of hard. As some one that used to smoke a lot but only smokes maybe once a year at this point, I have to put impossibly small amounts of pot in my bowl and it still gets me very high.

Like I said, dosing becomes difficult because the drug is so potent. Even if you know you only want the smallest hit, it doesn't always work that way in practice (especially if you're not a frequent smoker and aren't familiar with using pipes and vapes, etc).

Plus, a lot of casual smokers think they're supposed to smoke the way they see in movies, or how they did in high school, which is usually not a single, carefully measure toke and then wait 20 minutes.