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Cannabis strains are either pure or hybrid varieties of the plant genus Cannabis, which encompasses the species C. sativa, C. indica, and C. ruderalis . Varieties are developed to intensify specific characteristics of the plant, or to differentiate the strain for the purposes of marketing or to make it more effective as a drug.
Industry trade name for sativa -dominant hybrid strain. [59] Blue Goo. Industry trade name for sativa -dominant hybrid strain, a mix of Blue Dream and Agoo, a combination of which gives it its name. [59] [72] Bruce Banner. Industry trade name for cannabis strain.
Male Cannabis sativa in flower. Cannabis sativa is an annual herbaceous flowering plant. The species was first classified by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. [1] The specific epithet sativa means 'cultivated'. Indigenous to Eastern Asia, the plant is now of cosmopolitan distribution due to widespread cultivation. [2]
All known strains of Cannabis are wind-pollinated and the fruit is an achene. Most strains of Cannabis are short day plants, with the possible exception of C. sativa subsp. sativa var. spontanea (= C. ruderalis), which is commonly described as "auto-flowering" and may be day-neutral.
Kush generally refers to a pure or hybrid Cannabis indica strain. [1] Pure C. indica strains include Afghan Kush, Hindu Kush, Green Kush, and Purple Kush. [1] Hybrid strains of C. indica include Blueberry Kush and Golden Jamaican Kush. [1] The term "kush" is now also used as a slang word for cannabis.
Medical cannabis, or medical marijuana ( MMJ ), is cannabis and cannabinoids that are prescribed by physicians for their patients. [1] [2] The use of cannabis as medicine has not been rigorously tested due to production and governmental restrictions, resulting in limited clinical research to define the safety and efficacy of using cannabis to ...
Cannabis. Cannabis has served as an entheogen —a chemical substance used in religious or spiritual contexts [1] —in the Indian subcontinent since the Vedic period dating back to approximately 1500 BCE, but perhaps as far back as 2000 BCE. It was introduced to the New World by the Spaniards in 1530-1545.
Cannabis. In the United States, the removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, the category reserved for drugs that have "no currently accepted medical use", is a proposed legal and administrative change in cannabis-related law at the federal level.