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How do Indica and Sativa give different highs?

Discussion in 'Experienced Cannabis Enthusiasts' started by x bird toker, Dec 16, 2006.

  1. #1 x bird toker, Dec 16, 2006
    I know cannibis indica gives you a laid back couch high and sativa gives you a head rush feeling, but how? They both contain THC. Why does sativa give you a head rush high and indica gives you a couch lock high?
     
  2. #2 WeekendBalla, Dec 16, 2006
    yeah and which is the more visual like gives u weed vision and stuff high? and then there is some that make ur thoughts visual. idn i lost that feeling so long ago and since my recent tolerance break i regained that feeling and a whole lot more.
     
  3. #3 nizate, Dec 16, 2006
    a great question which i don't know the answer to but would like to! have you noticed that alcohol gives you differrent drunks based on the alcohol served? I don't but my friends claim it does. One friend swears tequilla makes him fight, and wine makes him giggly?
     
  4. #4 Zimed, Dec 16, 2006
    It has to do with the maturity of the Trichromes, and how far they Amber (if you want to talk on the broad plant spectrum).

    Indica's, also tend to have a higher CBD/CBN ratio, as opposed to Sativa's higher THC content ratio.
     
  5. #5 mooglemage, Dec 16, 2006
    Yeah there are many other active ingredients in weed, other cannabinoids besides THC.
    the different effects of sativa/indica come from the different levels of other cannibinoids including THC.
     
  6. #6 PeterPiper12, Dec 16, 2006
    There are about 60 different types of cannabinoids in cannabis. The levels of each of these chemicals varies from strain to strain, thus creating the different highs. Harvest time also has an influence on what kind of high you achieve. Buds harvested earlier tend to have a more cerebral high, whereas buds taken at a later time seem to have a more body high, although this also varies from strain to strain.
     
  7. #7 pokernaut, Dec 16, 2006
    a couple other factors that affect THC levels are ultraviolet light which encourages THC production, infrared (heat) which degrades it, the condition of the plant (nutrients etc.) and the curing.

    not all sativas give you a "head rush" either. the thai i started out smoking was very trippy and oftentimes paranoid while the kali mist i smoked was totally energetic and happy. other than durban poison & mexican brick though... EVERYTHING i've smoked has been couchlocking and/or spacey.

    the biggest difference is the couchlock. (CBD & CBN)
     

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