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[MEGA] Indica vs. Sativa

I'm not quite sure if I prefer indica or sativa because I never know which type I'm smoking. I've heard that sativa is sweeter smelling and indica is skunkier or mustier smelling. I really think that most weed you buy is a hybrid and that finding a purebred is very rare. Whenever I buy it isn't from the person who grows it so I have no real way of knowing whether it is sativa or indica. I'm not sure how others can tell.
 
The bud, the shape or the leaves, the color are all indications of genetics....

I prefer Sativa dominant hybrids, thats for sure. I say hybrid cause i doubt ive ever tried a straight up Sativa... Skunky indicas are not my idea of fun. Im very much outdoors, active, energtic. Indica i cant smoke all day and always end up on th couch or bailing early on a night out. Sativa, i can keep on going. And i prefer tripping, not sleeping....
 
chairmanma084 said:
i prefer indica dominant strains that give that strong couch-lock feeling. not surprisingly, i love opiates and benzos but HATE HATE HATE stimulants (cocaine, speed, etc.) and pretty much have no use for sativa-dominant strains.
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you said it better than I could have myself. I prefer Indica strains.
 
Arobskittle said:
cry me a river. Indicas are practically all we get in SC and we can do shit stoned on heavy indica.
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Heh I don't mind heavy Indicas and yeah you can do stuff while on them if you really want to, I used to go to classes, work, go about my day doing everything I'd normally do, and write papers on them and I wasn't usually into smoking herb daily/frequently.

It's not like heavy Indicas are a very high dose of oxy where you just want to sit there or lie down and nod for hours or it's like drinking too much booze where you pass out.

I can understand how eating too much Indica herb could be like that but most people do not eat herb that frequently or in high doses at all.

When I was into smoking I'd take either Sativa or Indica since I wanted to get high and I didn't know the names of the strains or if someone said it was one strain they probably didn't really know since they didn't grow it.

90% of the herb I've smoked was Indica or mostly Indica.
 
In your opinions, which variety of cannabis:
...Causes more giggles?
...Is more psychedelic? (mind expansion, memory fuckery, imagination etc)
...Brings on more paranoia?
...Increases your sex drive more (weed can make me VERY horny at times)
...Causes a greater appetite?
...Makes your eyes redder?

etc etc etc etc etc
 
...Causes more giggles? - Sativa
...Is more psychedelic? - Sativa
...Brings on more paranoia? - Sativa, not me personally but in general sativa
...Increases your sex drive more? - Both but Im going w/ indica here
...Causes a greater appetite? Indica
...Makes your eyes redder? Depends... My eyes just get tight never red anymore
 
We don't even get to choose here without paying through the roof for name brand sativa .

85% ofthe time we get indicas :-(
but it's always boom :-)
 
PriestTheyCalledHim said:
Heh I don't mind heavy Indicas and yeah you can do stuff while on them if you really want to, I used to go to classes, work, go about my day doing everything I'd normally do, and write papers on them and I wasn't usually into smoking herb daily/frequently.

It's not like heavy Indicas are a very high dose of oxy where you just want to sit there or lie down and nod for hours or it's like drinking too much booze where you pass out.

I can understand how eating too much Indica herb could be like that but most people do not eat herb that frequently or in high doses at all.

When I was into smoking I'd take either Sativa or Indica since I wanted to get high and I didn't know the names of the strains or if someone said it was one strain they probably didn't really know since they didn't grow it.

90% of the herb I've smoked was Indica or mostly Indica.
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Good post...& I'm in agreement. When we were kids in the late 60s/early 70s, probably most of the weed we toked were Sativas. We prefered that energetic buzz & the uncontrollable laughing while we were out & about. Especially being teenagers, we liked Sativas better.
Personally, I like to mix them up. Sativas in the day when doing chores, running errands, etc, etc. Indicas in the evening to unwind, relax, watch TV, etc, etc.
At age 55 [56 this August], I pretty much toke alone nowadays, as my wife doesn't smoke & my 19 yr old son is health-conscious, works out & doesn't want to pollute his lungs with anything. I bought a vaporizer & would love to have him at least give it a try...but am not pressuring him. If he wants to see why pops floats around the house, he's more than welcome to try some of this 'designer weed'. :\
 
Can a chemical be not psychoactive and have anxiolytic effects like CBD? Isn't CBD a 5ht receptor agonist also?
 
my cat's opinion is that sativa has a more energetic "high' whereas indica has a more harsh smoke and more mellower type of "high"
 
It depends where your from. Through centuries, farmers have selected crops based on highs that fit the environment. I have had pure puna bud that was very laid back and tropical without burnout. I have had indica that gave you lots of energy (could have been hybrid) but ended in a burnout sometimes, sometimes not,

At any rate, Ed Rosenthal wrote and excellent piece in the 80s High Times magazine during the indica craze that lamented the demise of classic sativa strains. Im with him, Also, there have been some excellent hybrids engineered. But the article focused on the classics like Colombian Gold, Panama Red, the great buds of Hawaii, all the classic Sativas. Not just the high, but the taste is good. Also mentioned the great declining Jamaican strains I believe. Matbe they be back after prohibition, like fine grapes of pinot noir in Burgandy.

Sativa gets my vote! Especially the tropical variety, I was taised on Indica haevy Hybrids in NorCal so tropical sativas were always a treat.
 
Froom HT mag:

ASK THE POT SNOB
Indica vs. Sativa
Tue, Feb 14, 2006 5:15 pm

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Meet HIGH TIMES’ highest authority on getting high: the Pot Snob.

Dear Pot Snob,
I was reading all about the Cannabis Cup in last month’s issue of HIGH TIMES, and I noticed that the annual seed-company competition is divided into two separate categories—indica and sativa. This will probably come off as something of a rudimentary question to ask of so high an authority as yourself, oh esteemed herb aficionado and cannabis connoisseur, but what exactly is the difference between indica and sativa? And, more to the point, which kind of kind should I grow if I’m thinking about growing kind for the very first time?
Sincerely,
Would-be Indoor Grower

Dear WIG,
First of all, let me say that while I appreciate your humble tone in asking, please rest assured that there’s no such thing as a rudimentary question when it comes to marijuana, at least not to this Pot Snob. They’re all good questions, except for one: “So what makes you so high and mighty when it comes to weed, anyway?”

The Pot Snob does not like to have his authority challenged.

Now, moving on to your specific query regarding the differences between indica and sativa... Just to show you how complicated the simplest, most “rudimentary” question can be when it comes to cannabis, smoke on this: The scientific community still hasn’t reached a consensus on the question of whether indica and sativa represent two distinct species (under the shared genus cannabis) or whether they represent subsets of the same species.

Fortunately, I’m a professional Pot Snob, not a genetic-science researcher, so such theoretical questions don’t really concern me except as an interesting aside.

I’m much more interested in the real-world story of indica and sativa from the smoker’s point of view. Regardless of whether two different species evolved from the same genus or whether one species split along geographic lines, by the time mankind came around to get high, the plant had divided into two easily distinguishable lines, with sativas growing wild in almost all equatorial regions of the globe (Mexico, Thailand, Colombia, Jamaica, etc.) and indicas thriving in southern Asia and the Indian subcontinent (Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Tibet, Nepal, etc.). In each case, the plants were eventually discovered, recognized, cultivated and bred for specific uses—sativas for straight smoking and indicas for making hashish and kif. These practices continued for thousands of years, without the two lines ever crossing paths, until a combination of far-wandering hippies, the Grateful Dead and the US War on Drugs brought them together for the first time.

In the early, innocent days of illicit American marijuana smoking, from the 1930s until the declaration of an all-out war on weed at the end of the 1970s, most of what ended up filling our star-spangled bongs arrived by way of Mexico and South America, smuggled across a loosely patrolled border. Check out a copy of HIGH TIMES from our very early days, and you’ll see a steady stream of smuggled sativa strains with names like Panama Red, Punta Roja and Santa Marta Gold.

Our own founder, Tom Forçade, used to personally fly planeloads of Colombian sativa, then known as the strongest smoke on the market, into the country.
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You'll find pictures if you take the time to look through my "terroir" posting with links to old high times pix. One beautifil pix is of colombian gold that looks like spun gold.

http://hightimes.com/entertainment/ht_admin/1670
 
jspun said:
Also mentioned the great declining Jamaican strains I believe. Maybe they be back after prohibition, like fine grapes of pinot noir in Burgandy.
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That was the 1st weed to get me wasted outta my cranium [1969]8(!!
My buddy & I got some from his older brother, who was flying it into the Chicago area in the mid 1960s.
We had no idea how to roll a joint, so we kyped a cig from my friend's mom & took all the tobacco out. Then we jammed & reamed the weed into the empty cigarette...cutting MOST of the filter off when finished, so we wouldn't suck the weed into our mouths.
After that 1st encounter with weed that actually got me ripped, I knew right then & there that pot was my drug-of-choice...& still is after 41 yrs of toking!!:\
 
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