WHAT IS IN A NAME?

                                                                           

Since I last posted on Marijuana Critic I have experienced a part of the emerging Marijuana Culture, guidance by "Leafly". This may be ok, in particular where the Marijuana Strains as named were represented locally as named and the characteristics are probably accurate in those localities.  In addition there is a tendency among some growers and producers to simply use a cool sounding name they have encountered. Leafly is a creation of an investor group heading by Peter Theil who may be part of an investor group that desires control over as much of the Marijuana Market as possible. I believe that Theil`s group owns an interest in at least one Production Facility, right here on Vancouver Island.

I have commented on Sativa vs Indica. Its not that the two major genetic variations in cannabis are opposed to each other, they are different from one another but I do not think that the distinction is as clear as many marijuana evaluators portray.  The common wisdom is that tall gangly narrow leaved plants are Sativa and short squat plants are Indica.  I think that I have experienced tall and short and mentally stimulating and bodily sedating effects from all sorts of different sizes of plants.  

The Indica strain is primarily modified through the turpene Limonelle and Sativa has the main modifying turpene Linacool. I have thought that the lemony tasting Kush type strains were Indica and that the sweet Thai or lightly lavender through hash taste was the taste of Sativa. The resulting high or medical effect seemed to be indicated by the smell and taste of Indica or Sativa and not the name or the shape of a plant. 

I find that the finest Marijuana and Hashish has the initial effect of sedation or being laid back or awestruck and then rising feeling of energy creativity direction and concentration. This dual effect is a characteristic of the only Marijuana or Hashish that I personally like or think is really valuable. The alleged Indica body stone and Sativa head stone are overturned by the incredible intellectual and creative effect of some Afghan Indica.   

I am becoming more and more convinced that much of the genealogy behind today's Indicas is dependent upon the OG18 Kush cancer pain relief Marijuana breed at Vancouver British Columbia for medical purposes.

Some breeders were seeking the highest possible high and they breed using North American Indica and Th

ai and some of those special Afghan Strains.  It is possible that this is the source of the creative intellectual high called Sativa.