We have come a long way from when the two kinds of weed were,
weed with sticks and seeds stuffed into tiny sandwich bags;
and fake weed with sticks and seeds stuffed into tiny sandwich bags.
The culture now seems to describe Cannabis as either Sativa or indica or as a Hybrid( some mixture of the two), however It seems as those terms of classification are not actually appropriate for understanding how to utilize Medical Cannabis in way that is most helpful to one's specific physiology and endocannabinoid system.
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The world was without Cannabis until the term was first coined in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician who formalized binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms and is known as the "father of modern taxonomy".
In 1789 , French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, first published the name Cannabis indica. He was describing a cannabis plant variety he had discovered from India. It was bushier and smaller that the Cannabis Sativa plants that were well known at that time, but was considered to be a sub- species, not a different plant.
I have learned a ton about terpenes from Leafly.
This is an exciting time for Cannabis. We are seeing the lies of past 100 years dry up fall away, as little sprigs of truth spew out of the brachts of liberty. I believe the growing of one's own garden is resistance to tyranny, taxation is theft, food is life, and all use is medicinal.
hemp (n.)
Old English hænep "hemp, cannabis sativa," from Proto-Germanic
*hanapiz (source also of Old Saxon hanap Old Norse hampr,
Old High German hanaf, German Hanf), probably a very early
Germanic borrowing of the
same Scythian word that became Greek kannabis (see cannabis).
As the name of the fiber made from the plant,
by c.1300. Slang sense of "marijuana" dates from 1940s;
scientific applications for the narcotic derived from
hemp date to 1870.
Classification for Kingdom Plantae Down to Species Cannabis sativa L
Up to the Kingdom
Kingdom Plantae – Plants
Subkingdom Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
Superdivision Spermatophyta – Seed plants
Division Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
Class Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
Subclass Hamamelididae
Order Urticales
Family Cannabaceae – Hemp family
Genus Cannabis L. – hemp P
Species Cannabis sativa L. – marijuana P
fromUSDA