Kinda curious because I want to target certain effects like energy and focus and avoid anything that would couch-lock me.
It’s all 100% bullshit pseudo science that gets regularly regurgitated by rec stores and sadly “medical” professionals and caregivers.
There could be some sort of correlation but nobody understands it or can say for certain.
On leafly? Basically useless.
Unfortunately, you will need to taste test a strain yourself to see how it effects you.
Theres no hard evidence on why different strains produce different experiences. Some think it is the terpene profile, or the plant age at harvest, or your mentality and expectations and mood, or your personal bodily chemistry, etc.
Maybe its one of these, maybe its a mix. Maybe its something we havent considered.
Sadly, this means no website or budtender can accurately tell you how a strain will make you feel.
In my personal experience? Strains with similar terpene profiles have similar-ish effects. Sour, heavy citrus strains give me headaches and make me anxious, while pine heavy strains make me sleepy and mellow. I trust my nose with strains I do not know.
Try and find a pattern that works for you. Stick with it until the science can catch up.
THC and CBD are mind altering substances. Their concentration and ratio are what determine effects. We don’t measure alcohol strength by the grains used to make it; we measure it by alcohol content. You can buy indica with 30% THC and 0% CBD and indica with 0% THC and 30% CBD and they’re going to have way different effects in the same way you can buy grain alcohol at 2% and 40%.
That being said, there isn’t a lot of studies on what ratios give what affects and in what dosages. Because of that, it isn’t bad to see how people rate a particular product, assuming the product always has the same amounts of THC and CBD.
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.
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.
I think it’s a nature vs nurture issue, it can be accurate under ideal conditions, but grow conditions vary. With a grain of salt, strains seem to be sort of accurate, but also wildly variant, kind of like dog breeds.
Depends on the grow also. If it’s all clones from a mother plant. This wouldn’t happen.
Yeah, kind of, all I do is clone, different conditions result in different buds, eg duration will definitely change the compound distributions
Crazy how plants work. Thanks for the info. ❤️
I made a fun little chatGPT bot to help with questions like that. https://chat.openai.com/g/g-ZoUQIISf6-terp-genie
Reviews are ok, but honestly…the best way to look at it
Indica = couch lock sleepy time smoke
Sativa = party time energized smoke
Hybrids will vary obviously.
Pretty much the only thing you can trust is indicas will probably make you sleepy, sativas will probably make you not sleepy and hybrids will be somewhere in between. Keep in mind though there are overlaps and you might not get an indica that makes you sleepy. The terpenes won’t make a much of a difference other than flavor.
Another garbage pseudo science take.
