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u/mydogcecil · 6 pointsr/Maine

Taxonomy-wise, for psychoactive cannabis plants it's either broadleaf cannabis or narrow leaf cannabis. Pure sativas are non psychoactive hemp producing.

https://www.amazon.com/Cannabis-Evolution-Ethnobotany-Robert-Clarke/dp/0520292480

u/nugenberg · 3 pointsr/eldertrees

This is nothing new, Check out Cannabis Evolution and Ethnobotany that covered the topic really well and proving that the terms have always been meaningless and made up.

Cannabis Indica is literally any plant from india, that's what indica means, from India. Cannabis Sativa is the only species name here, so anything we think of as cannabis is Cannabis Sativa (including hemp, stocky plants, etc).

Broad or narrow leaf, photoperiod or autoflowering, are all genetic features of Cannabis Sativa.

What the terms Indica and Sativa are helpful for is as marketing terminology to denote sedating or stimulating in markets where more accurate terms would be considered medical language (I'm looking at you Canada).

Terpenes are our best source of information on what different strains will do to us, and Ethan Russo has brought us all the most accessible information on them so far.

u/banneryear1868 · 2 pointsr/microgrowery

Landrace refers to a species adapted to natural or local agricultural practices, can be a plant or animal. A great example, because of the isolation and unique climate, is Icelandic sheep, horses, cattle, and goats. For plants, growers would take the seeds from the best plants and plant those the following year, over generations. You can imagine that for drug-use cannabis this opens up a lot of interesting factors due to the fact that the female plants would have to be isolated!

I'm reading "Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany" right now but not very far in yet. The book and devotes a lot of pages to the history of cannabis cultivation, it's also been academically published and peer reviewed, so if you're looking for a definitive resource I highly recommend!

https://www.amazon.com/Cannabis-Evolution-Ethnobotany-Robert-Clarke/dp/0520292480