OK that's a cool question and I'll do my best to describe. Don't know if you can picture this, it would depend on your age I guess, but it's summer 1979, Breakfast in America is the huge summer hit, I'm early teenager lightly experimenting with stuff like, as my memory serves, Colombian and Acapulco Gold, and other Mexican and Panama strains, as well as Maui Waui, which my memory was just refreshed of here recently. I didn't have any real knowledge of weed, I just bought and smoked it. Anyway, the high was great because you couldn't keep us down. Me and my buds grew up in a large metropolis with tonnes to do and we were gone from morning to night just loving life. Then along comes the 80's and a bunch of new terms are flying around like hydroponics, cloning and grafting, and this bud was coming out really crystally and sticky with a different smell and taste and more potent, or so it seemed. That's the other thing I remember is the scent of the old Sativa weeds. I can't describe it really, I just know it in my mind like I know the smell of burning leaves in the fall and the memory it takes me back to every time. I just know it's different. More earthy and woody is the best way I can put it. So this new bud had a new high too and I just took it as being more potent and that is why it's knocking me on my ass so much. It was only until recently that I learned all about Indicas and Sativas and the differences in them, and my always lingering questions were answered. Any, taste, smell and all that is not important to me, I love the variety, it's the stone I'm looking for. My other problem is that we've uprooted ourselves and I'm kind of a stranger in a strange land, so my contacts and picking are real slim. Nonetheless, the way things are I can still always get some Indica, good or bad, but I can never get a good Sativa because out there it's about Capitalism and getting the bigger return on time and investment. Fourteen week, lower yielding strains just don't make sense to the commercial growers out there. So thus, if you want to do something right, you just have to do it yourself!
So how'd that do?