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Marijuana Terpenes: What They Are, Why You Need Them, How To Use Them

Cannabis Cheri

Forget About Indica and Sativa: How Terpenes Affect Your Cannabis. The old school conventional wisdom used to divide cannabis into the broad categories of indica, sativa, and hybrid. And conventional wisdom used to say that indicas were better for relaxing and sleep, while sativas were more energetic and creative.

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Marijuana Terpenes: What They Are, Why You Need Them, How To Use Them

Cannabis Cheri

Forget About Indica and Sativa: How Terpenes Affect Your Cannabis As research into cannabis and terpenes progresses, it is changing a lot of what we used to think we knew about marijuana. The old school conventional wisdom used to divide cannabis into the broad categories of indica, sativa, and hybrid.

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Which Terpenes Enhance the Cannabis High?

Project CBD

They note that the term “entourage effect,” as originally coined in a 1998 article in the European Journal of Pharmacology, 4 refers to cases where compounds that don’t directly bind to CB1 or CB2 nonetheless boost the activity of the endocannabinoid system. Strictly speaking, no, according to the paper’s authors.

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Beta-Caryophyllene: Terpene Powerhouse

Project CBD

A “Dietary Cannabinoid” Beta-caryophyllene, a weak CB1 agonist, is what scientists refer to as a “full agonist” at the CB2 cannabinoid receptor, which plays an important role in regulation of immune function and inflammation. Cannabis sativa terpenes are cannabimimetic and selectively enhance cannabinoid activity.”

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Marijuana Terpenes Explained: What They Are, Why You Need Them, How To Use Them

Cannabis Cheri

Marijuana Terpenes Explained: Forget About Indica and Sativa! The old school conventional wisdom used to divide cannabis into the broad categories of indica, sativa, and hybrid. And conventional wisdom used to say that indicas were better for relaxing and sleep, while sativas were more energetic and creative.

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Weed slang – the most common nicknames for cannabis

The Cannigma

Within the Cannabis genus, we can find the hemp species Cannabis sativa , Cannabis Indica, and Cannabis Ruderalis. Indica and Sativa. There is perhaps no more contentious discussion in cannabis than what makes a plant an Indica, and what is a Sativa. Scientifically speaking, that’s simply not the case.

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Terpene Spotlight: Pinene

FloridaMarijuana.net

A 2015 study determined that pine needle oil from crude extract of pine needles has been used as an anti-cancer agent in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Some of the strains that possess the Pinene terpene are: Jack Herer , Sativa. Additional References: Noma Y, Asakawa Y. In this study , it was concluded that alpha-pinene (?-pinene)

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