How accurate are cannabis strains “effects” as listed on sites like Leafly? (kbin.social)

submitted 10 months ago by Horsey@kbin.social to c/trees@lemmy.world

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Kinda curious because I want to target certain effects like energy and focus and avoid anything that would couch-lock me.

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[-] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 months ago

I'm like pretty certain it's mostly placebo so just keep telling yourself it does what you want it to and it should keep doing that.

I buy "sativa" gummies fairly often and after taking them, I get active. I wanna clean, I wanna focus on tasks, I wanna paint and draw and sing.

My roommate is weed clueless, but enjoys it, took some, and got a mild couch lock. He likes to take em to calm down to sleep when he's stressed. I think companies will try to pitch you otherwise, but I think that's mostly to, well, sell you two bags of grass instead of one.

[-] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Sativa vs indica is the biological distinction. Personally I don’t believe it has much impact on effects. The active cannabinoids do more so. Aka CBG/A couch lock, THCV energy.

[-] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure the biological distinction speaks to the cannabinoid levels, although maybe not at a 1:1 relationship.

[-] deranger@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It doesn’t, like at all. This is akin to seeing a smart tall person, and assuming all tall people are smart.

The plants stature has very little bearing on the cannabinoid content. This is common sense, but thanks to the illegality of cannabis, we’re still very ignorant overall.

I can dig up some peer reviewed studies later when I get home; there’s one I remember where a 100% “indica” actually grouped as pure sativa.

This isn’t to say there isn’t a difference in effects, just that genetics does not control the cannabinoid profile. Nurture plays a huge role in nature vs. nurture.

Would twins raised in different parts of the world turn out identically?

Edit: here’s one study that shows indica/sativa is basically useless from a medical standpoint

https://www.iomcworld.com/open-access/cannabinoids-and-terpenes-as-chemotaxonomic-markers-in-cannabis-2329-6836-1000181.pdf

[-] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 10 months ago

The cannabinoid profile is genetic, as in the plants genes determine which terpenes it produces at (more or less) what concentrations. And the parent plants only pass on what they have to offer.

Its just that the traits we visually see and identify with a sativa or indica "genetic line" like leaf type, growth structure, nodal spacing, and flower time, are not genetically linked to the cannabinoid profile. As in, these traits are equally dispersed genetically in the overall population, and you can really only rely on parent to child genetic inheritance, not any sense of trait linkage from a lineage of a suite of traits.

Maybe once upon a time they were. But cultivated weed is so well interbred now that any history of genetic linkage has long since been broken.

It really really doesnt help either that growers and budtenders do not use those words the same way. A sativa in the greenhouse is not always called a sativa on the shelf at the dispensary.