I didn't realize this was an argument. I was kind of thinking it was a discussion, or brainstorm.

But aren't nearly all the canniboids in the resin, and isn't nearly all the resin in the trichomes? If I burn plant matter nothing happens. You need to burn the trichomes to get high. That is why you wait until the bud is nice and frosty with trichomes. Otherwise people would be harvesting during the vegatitve state. This has been my understanding for the past 25 years. Have I been wrong all this time?

the actual green itself has thc in the buds
Yes, but very little. I know there is THC in the plant matter too, but isn't it like maybe 1% of what is in the trichomes? Isn't that why we harvest the nice n frosty parts, the parts with the trichomes, and throw the rest away?