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Home 🌿 Marijuana Business News 🌿 Cannabis sativa vs cannabis indica: What you think you know about marijuana strains is probably wrong 🌿Cannabis sativa vs cannabis indica: What you think you know about marijuana strains is probably wrong
When it comes to getting high on marijuana, the conventional wisdom is that one of two species of the plant—cannabis sativa or cannabis indica—will determine whether you get an up high or you get couch lock. (A third species, cannabis ruderalis, has also been identified, but it doesn’t have much psychoactive effect and is more hemp-like.)
There is a good bit of truth to the conventional wisdom—indicas do tend to produce stuporous, narcotized highs, while sativas tend to produce giddy, exhilarating ones—but there’s a bit more to it than that. And those relying on the good old sativa = up / indica = down as a guide may find themselves in for a surprise.
The differences between the two species are evident to the naked eye. Sativas typically are tall and lanky, with long narrow leaves, while indicas are shorter, stouter, bushier, and have thicker, stubbier leaves. That, says Krymon...
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