indica vs sativa for medicinal purposes

Please Help Us Study Medical Cannabis

Hello, My name is Won Choe, 4th year Medical Student from the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Western University. I'am currently conducting a series of investigations to document the properties of medical cannabis under the supervision of Dr. Daniel Pearce, D.O. Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, a clinical researcher and HIV specialist who has written many medical cannabis letters at Western University, Pomona, California.

Many people have experienced different effects from the two marijuana species. We would like to get a good idea of how the people view the differences between Indica and Sativa by administering a survey. We will have the people who participate in the survey mark which species is better at relieving or causing nausea, pain relief, euphoria, sedation, medical ailments, etc…

We plan on using this information to support a grant application for the next trial: The second trial will have participants come into a facility and after using a pure indica or sativa, they will be given a similar survey to answer the effects the cannabis has produced. This will help us to better serve the medical patients who are under cannabis, by administering a specific strain (indica vs sativa) that may help better with their ailments.

This is an anonymous survey so we won't know anything about you other than you have agreed to fill it out. By clicking on the link below, it will directly take you to the survey at surveymonkey.com. If the link is not working, then please copy and paste. Thank you for your participation in this survey and it should take about 10 minutes to complete it. This survey will also help patients in the future who may benefit from medical cannabis.

Thank you very much for your participation

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Hello Mr. Choe,

I am a medical user/advocate and I'd like to wish you luck with your survey and trials. I believe you may have difficulty because of your terminology. The use of the word "pure" to describe a strain is the limiting factor. Some medical users may have used a pure sativa many years ago, but very few of us have ever consumed a pure indica.

Also.. trying to say that Sativas do one thing and Indicas do another is just not what "strains" are about. Strains are selectively bred "pure" or hybridized to capitalize on, among other things, like yield, combinations of Cannabinoids - THC, THCV, CBD being the most prominent. What am I getting at? 2 purebred indicas could give you completely different results due to varrying levels of these cannabinoids. For instance, most Indicas of, say, Northern Lights lineage, or Sativas of Haze lineage, as I understand it, will contain only trace ammounts of THCV, wheras THCV is present in "Thai" Sativas or "Afghani" Indicas. CBDs are not as easily "nailed down" as this example, but you would find high CBDs in any of the "White" hybrid lineage, as they are bred consistantly for pain relief.

I'm no scientist, but I can tell you already that if you are trying to equate specific effects to generic Indica versus generic Sativa, you will fail to prove anything of value, as the cannabinoid concentration genetics vary widely among both subspecies. Also, not that it has much relevance (that I'm aware) to medicine, but you've left out a subspecies: Ruderalis.

A better study might be delving further into the specific medical relevance of the cannabinoids in Cannabis subspecies.

I am a ADD patient but marijuana does help me concentrate and remember stuff for longer periods of time for a couple of days, I am a sativa enthousiast, so if you think this will help you out... here you go.