For the last year or so it has been bothering me that I can't tell the difference between indica and sativa. At first I assumed that the problem was me. #
But the more I thought about it, the more I started to wonder if there were any scientific research about strains and terpenes, or whether everything we think we know about strains and terpenes falls under the category of anecdotal evidence.#
Has anyone actually done any double-blind placebo-controlled peer-reviewed research on this? Quoting from an NPR article, the answer seems to be: #
“Double-blind clinical trials, the gold standard for research studies in medicine, have never been conducted to investigate the effects of marijuana's terpenes or its cannabinoids other than THC. With marijuana, most of what you're dealing with is anecdotal evidence," Phylos's Holmes says. "But the truth is there's very, very little data."#
Now what? The established mythology about the relative effects of indica versus sativa is everywhere. It's even in the responsible vendor training required by the state.#
It seems like we could really differentiate ourselves from everyone else as the shop where we believe in science, but that might actually be controversial!#
For the last year or so it has been bothering me that I can't tell the difference between indica and sativa. At first I assumed that the problem was me. #
But the more I thought about it, the more I started to wonder if there were any scientific research about strains and terpenes, or whether everything we think we know about strains and terpenes falls under the category of anecdotal evidence.#
Has anyone actually done any double-blind placebo-controlled peer-reviewed research on this? Quoting from an NPR article, the answer seems to be: #
“Double-blind clinical trials, the gold standard for research studies in medicine, have never been conducted to investigate the effects of marijuana's terpenes or its cannabinoids other than THC. With marijuana, most of what you're dealing with is anecdotal evidence," Phylos's Holmes says. "But the truth is there's very, very little data."#
Now what? The established mythology about the relative effects of indica versus sativa is everywhere. It's even in the responsible vendor training required by the state.#
It seems like we could really differentiate ourselves from everyone else as the shop where we believe in science, but that might actually be controversial!#