what is sativa?

[rottenfork]

:stoned: excuse my ignorabce but ive been reading through the threads and i just dont know what sativa means?

[BONG0]

The scientific community still hasnâ??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, Iâ??m a professional Pot smoker, not a genetic-science researcher, so such theoretical questions donâ??t really concern me except as an interesting aside.

Iâ??m much more interested in the real-world story of indica and sativa from the smokerâ??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 usesâ??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 the very early days, and youâ??ll see a steady stream of smuggled sativa strains with names like Panama Red, Punta Roja and Santa Marta Gold.

The HIGH TIMES founder, Tom Forçade, used to personally fly planeloads of Colombian sativa, then known as the strongest smoke on the market, into the country.

:thumbsup:

[BONG0]

Sativas get vey tall and spindily and best suited for outdoor growth, Indicas are shorter and thickert at the nodes and are best suited for Indoor grow. There are hybrids of Sativa and Indica such as 30% Sativa and 70% Indica in 1 plant.

[rottenfork]

cheers for clearing that up for me

[faithless]

Sativas also give you the heady almost psychedelic high, Indicas give you the couch lock high. Indicas are the ones generally used for medical purposes.