Huh, last I looked somewhere I'm pretty sure indica was considered a subspecies, not a distinct species. Thanks for the update or correction, either or.

Oh wait no I should've known, it's something we're still pretty much arguing over. That is whether sativa and indica (and ruderalis) are both suspecies, or whether they're all their own species in the same family.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4604179/#:~:text=Cannabis%20is%20often%20divided%20into,often%20has%20a%20few%20branches.

And dog breeds are still (at least in the vast majority) not even different subspecies, just different breed (variants of the same species)

Indica is technically "cannabis sativa indica" and then a strain would technically be written fully as "C. sativa var indica, 'Indian Kush'" or "C. sativa indica, var 'Northern Lights'" or something to that effect. But also sativa would be like "C. sativa sativa, var. 'Durban Poison'"

This is all up for debate, I'm not saying there's consensus on what is or isn't correct. Just inputting a lil content to Lemmy

It would be the same as saying there is only one species of broccoli, Brassica oleracea.

And redwoods

"What's with all the files named after cannabis strains on the gcms and lcms computers?"
"I was making a point."

Right there with you. I got a good giggle out of this.

These are pretty different though, as cannabis has literally dozens of different cannabinoids and terpenes, but "magic mushrooms" refers to psilocybin shrooms, which all have psilocybin and psilocin in varying amounts.

Cannabis relies on the entourage effect.

Obviously life will refuse to be neatly classified, but that doesn't mean people smarter than us won't still try to do it in order to better understand the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species

Kinda sorta a bit different but you got the gist down close enough. 🙏

Cannabaceae is the plants family which is good shit btw 🤩🧐

There are two ways of thinking I’m aware of. It’s all cannabis sativa. Or. It’s cannabis sativa, Cannabis indica and cannabis ruderalis as the three sub species.

Ruderalis is literally ditch weed in that it grows randomlyin the ditch’s around midwestern America, near where “hemp” was produced previously, and produces nothing smokeable or enjoyable I’m aware of.

Hemp is just a governmental term applied to the cannabis plant to denote it has less than .3% THC making it non psychoactive. This is currently heavily abused in the USA as THCa, the naturally occurring acid that grows on cannabis, melts or converts into THC with heat. And the law seemingly defines it into as THC being over .3% not THCa. Weird loophole.

Hackberry trees (Celtis occidentalis) are also in the same family!

Cannabis sativa is the same plant for every single strain of cannabis in existence, as well as hemp. The meme is pointing out how we talk about sativa, indica, and hybrids as completely different plants, rather than variations of the same species