BourbonMac
Bluelighter
Everyone's out there debunking this and whatnot. I too for years thought there was no difference between Indica or Sativa until this year.
I can 100% tell there's a different high in the Sativa, because for one, it doesn't make me really tired and two, it makes my energy skyrocket to the point where I can't keep one part of my body still. Mild visual distortions tend to be more common, but this is in strains 80-100% (pure Sativa's like Durban Poison or Hawaiian). This is a bit of a longer read but I tried to break it up because some people might think it's a lot. If you read books often, let alone long posts, this is a 1 minute read tops.
Even if I were given a random strain and blindly told it was a high Sativa, I would know within minutes what it was. Most things are 50/50 hybrids these days or close to that; these make me as tired as some strains that are 80-100% Indica. They just knock me the hell out, and I notice a sharp lack of psychoactivity. I'd be smoking at a friend or something and within an hour of watching someone I'm struggling to even keep my eyes straight.
No Sativa has done that to me, and the burnout if I'm smoking one is practically non-existent. It's just like a distant tired feeling compared with feeling so tired I end up falling asleep in the shower when I get home. Placebo effect is not something I tend to fall for in terms of drugs or anything really. I didn't expect to get some wild high out of Pineapple Express for instance, haven't even seen that movie.
My friend brought it back from Cali and when I took a fat rip of that, I felt a high unlike anything I'd ever felt. It was like a different drug altogether and I was practically tripping it was so intense. Up to that point I always leaned towards indica simply because I was nostalgic towards most of the strains I started out smoking, which were largely Indica, or because people I know say they prefer Indica because they've had bad times smoking Sativa. Although I do remember smoking Sativa and noticing a difference even when I was new and completely, utterly clueless as to anything weed related, so it's not like I'd looked up what an Indica or Sativa even was. I didn't even know what a dispensary was until I'd already been smoking on dispensary weed for weeks. Had a very solid plug in late high school.
In retrospect I think Sativa always was different for me. I remember smoking some Super Silver Haze back in 2015 and this was probably like, .00025, it was a straight up tiny leaf, and I was so high I was having visual distortions and practically hearing voices despite smoking all summer. My secondary plug at that time did only sell Kine Bud, but my friend was hustling California weed that we called "super danks." I got that same strain again earlier this year and the euphoria and energizing effects were off the charts, and I'm sitting there wondering how the hell there could really be no difference, or if it simply comes down the individual themselves.
I don't know if science has ever definitively proved that there's no difference in the high. I'm told it's all placebo if I ask about it anywhere else, but I know it isn't. Apparently, everyone has a different endocannabinoid system and that may be a reason why some notice a difference, and some don't, among other things. Maybe someone else knows more about this and why only some of us can seem to notice a difference, while to others good bud is just good bud and the only difference is taste or smell and not much in the way of the high.
I think having such a sensitive tolerance with cannabis related things as of like 1.5 years after I started, so November 2012ish, may be a reason why. I can smoke literally less than 0.1 and get higher than I did when I was newer off a joint to the face. But I guess that's also just a testament to how insanely strong a lot of weed is now. I think 15-20% was probably average back in the early tweens or probably most of the tweens. It wasn't until so many more states legalized it that good dispensaries were popping up and now the average is like 25-30% anywhere I go. I'll rarely come across bud that's in the teens.
I know dispensaries definitely overuse the terms and might think something that's like, 60% Sativa like Blue Dream is automatically going to be heady, when really that one is more of a spacey, heady Indica and a lot of cuts probably end up like 55/50, maybe some end up 50/50. I don't know how that works exactly. Regardless, once I discovered Sativa's are like this for me it's pretty much all I bother to get.
At least until the world ends.
I can 100% tell there's a different high in the Sativa, because for one, it doesn't make me really tired and two, it makes my energy skyrocket to the point where I can't keep one part of my body still. Mild visual distortions tend to be more common, but this is in strains 80-100% (pure Sativa's like Durban Poison or Hawaiian). This is a bit of a longer read but I tried to break it up because some people might think it's a lot. If you read books often, let alone long posts, this is a 1 minute read tops.
Even if I were given a random strain and blindly told it was a high Sativa, I would know within minutes what it was. Most things are 50/50 hybrids these days or close to that; these make me as tired as some strains that are 80-100% Indica. They just knock me the hell out, and I notice a sharp lack of psychoactivity. I'd be smoking at a friend or something and within an hour of watching someone I'm struggling to even keep my eyes straight.
No Sativa has done that to me, and the burnout if I'm smoking one is practically non-existent. It's just like a distant tired feeling compared with feeling so tired I end up falling asleep in the shower when I get home. Placebo effect is not something I tend to fall for in terms of drugs or anything really. I didn't expect to get some wild high out of Pineapple Express for instance, haven't even seen that movie.
My friend brought it back from Cali and when I took a fat rip of that, I felt a high unlike anything I'd ever felt. It was like a different drug altogether and I was practically tripping it was so intense. Up to that point I always leaned towards indica simply because I was nostalgic towards most of the strains I started out smoking, which were largely Indica, or because people I know say they prefer Indica because they've had bad times smoking Sativa. Although I do remember smoking Sativa and noticing a difference even when I was new and completely, utterly clueless as to anything weed related, so it's not like I'd looked up what an Indica or Sativa even was. I didn't even know what a dispensary was until I'd already been smoking on dispensary weed for weeks. Had a very solid plug in late high school.
In retrospect I think Sativa always was different for me. I remember smoking some Super Silver Haze back in 2015 and this was probably like, .00025, it was a straight up tiny leaf, and I was so high I was having visual distortions and practically hearing voices despite smoking all summer. My secondary plug at that time did only sell Kine Bud, but my friend was hustling California weed that we called "super danks." I got that same strain again earlier this year and the euphoria and energizing effects were off the charts, and I'm sitting there wondering how the hell there could really be no difference, or if it simply comes down the individual themselves.
I don't know if science has ever definitively proved that there's no difference in the high. I'm told it's all placebo if I ask about it anywhere else, but I know it isn't. Apparently, everyone has a different endocannabinoid system and that may be a reason why some notice a difference, and some don't, among other things. Maybe someone else knows more about this and why only some of us can seem to notice a difference, while to others good bud is just good bud and the only difference is taste or smell and not much in the way of the high.
I think having such a sensitive tolerance with cannabis related things as of like 1.5 years after I started, so November 2012ish, may be a reason why. I can smoke literally less than 0.1 and get higher than I did when I was newer off a joint to the face. But I guess that's also just a testament to how insanely strong a lot of weed is now. I think 15-20% was probably average back in the early tweens or probably most of the tweens. It wasn't until so many more states legalized it that good dispensaries were popping up and now the average is like 25-30% anywhere I go. I'll rarely come across bud that's in the teens.
I know dispensaries definitely overuse the terms and might think something that's like, 60% Sativa like Blue Dream is automatically going to be heady, when really that one is more of a spacey, heady Indica and a lot of cuts probably end up like 55/50, maybe some end up 50/50. I don't know how that works exactly. Regardless, once I discovered Sativa's are like this for me it's pretty much all I bother to get.
At least until the world ends.
