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Your friend that only smokes pure indica because sativa 'makes them paranoid?' Scientists have confirmed your sneaking suspicion that these dopers are just blowing smoke.
As any serious toker will point out, cannabis is among the planet's oldest cultivated crops. But driven underground, marijuana growth has been a genetic free-for-all, with cross-breeding mixing up even the most basic distinction — between indica and sativa — that many hold dear.
That's all according to a new study from a pair of Canadian scientists published in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE. As the paper's author, Sean Myles, an agricultural geneticist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, tells Wired, "They’re not totally wrong, but the split [between indica and sativa] is nowhere near as accurate as you’d need to be in another horticultural crop with a formal classification system.”
From the paper:
Although the taxonomic separation of the putative taxa C. sativa and
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