Colemanw

I went through some search results for the words sativa and indica but all it came up with was various references to so-and-so bud being of one of the two strains. Can anyone please explain the difference or direct me to information on these two types?

sterbo

Here you go...

Regarding the differences between indica and sativa... Just to show you how complicated the simplest, most “rudimentary” question can be when it comes to cannabis, smoke on this: The scientific community still hasn’t reached a consensus on the question of whether indica and sativa represent two distinct species (under the shared genus cannabis) or whether they represent subsets of the same species.

Regardless of whether two different species evolved from the same genus or whether one species split along geographic lines, by the time mankind came around to get high, the plant had divided into two easily distinguishable lines, with sativas growing wild in almost all equatorial regions of the globe (Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, Jamaica, etc.) and indicas thriving in southern Asia and the Indian subcontinent (Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Tibet, Nepal, etc.). In each case, the plants were eventually discovered, recognized, cultivated and bred for specific uses—sativas for straight smoking and indicas for making hashish and kif. These practices continued for thousands of years, without the two lines ever crossing paths, until a combination of far-wandering hippies, the Grateful Dead and the US War on Drugs brought them together for the first time.



*Pot Snob

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Yana Usdi

Indica, short and squat, more prone to a body stone or couch lock. Good for pain and good to help you sleep but no so hot if you've got a busy day planned Much more popular since indoor growing came along than it used to be due the the height and longer flowering time of the Sativa but also a part of why some who used to like getting high don't like it as much anymore, claim it just makes them sleepy. They aren't smoking the same stuff they were when they were a kid in many cases.

Sativa, cerebral, head high, a favorite of many for social gatherings and music, that type of thing. Some call it energetic but it's more a euphoric than a stimulant. Indicas are too but that's often masked by the couch lock effects. Very tall and can outgrow some houses, roof and all, long flowering time added to that which required it to be bred with an indica for indoor grows. If it's locally grown and claims to be sativa odds are it's a cross, though it can still carry straight sativa smoking traits.

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marijuanavillle7

Sativa during the day, indica at night

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Colemanw

Good information. Thanks very much.