Some people like growing from clones, some from seed.

I prefer some seed, unlike others who use clones. Starting from a seed, yes, is a 50/50 chance of getting male or female, but from seed I find the plant is much more robust and hartier than from clone. Buds are prime and solid, and I have found that you can only take so many clones from a mother plant before the clones themselves, produce weak results.

Getting a male to blow pollen on only 1 female is not that much of a loss. THC production does slow down, but you can get several hundred seeds from that one seeded female. Use the seeds, take the torn apart females and make hash or some kind of extraction with the unsmokable buds.

That's just from a small, personal, indoor growers opinion though.