Sativa is a low potency hemp.

Technically you are right- 'sativa' is low potency hemp.

Although the cannabis community uses the term sativa to refer to taller, thinner leaved plants, technically they are narrow leaf indicas.

The community as a whole mis-uses the term sativa- genetic research shows that the sativa family is a unique and genetically distinct subspecies of cannabis that does not produce THC.

THC producing varieties fall into two categories of Cannabis indica.

What we call indica are actually wide-leaf members of the Cannabis indica subspecies; what we call sativa are actually thin-leaf members of the Cannabis indica subspecies.

-Chimera

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This paper: A chemotaxonomic analysis of cannabinoid variation in Cannabis (Cannabaceae)1
Karl W. Hillig2 and Paul G. Mahlberg

Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA

Received for publication June 19, 2003. Accepted for publication February 12, 2004.

Can be found at this URL:

http://www.amjbot.org/cgi/content/f...INDEX=0&sortspec=relevance&resourcetype=HWCIT


This point is rather academic; as you can see from many many posts in this forum and others across the internet that we as a community still use the term sativa to refer to taller, thinner leaf (technically) indica subspecies variants.

I also use the term, so I'm as guilty as any.... I'm not saying that you or anyone is wrong to use it. To use the term sativa to refer to these individuals as is the norm; to use the 'new' suggested NLD/WLD annotation based on the genetic research wouldn't make much sense, since the vast majority of people use sativa/indica.

On a side note... sativa means 'useful' or 'cultivated'.

-Chimera

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