Plant Classification vs Terpene Constituancy

We have come a long way from when the two kinds of weed were,
weed with sticks and seeds stuffed into tiny sandwich bags;
and fake weed with sticks and seeds stuffed into tiny sandwich bags.

The culture now seems to describe Cannabis as either Sativa or indica or as a Hybrid( some mixture of the two), however It seems as those terms of classification are not actually appropriate for understanding how to utilize Medical Cannabis in way that is most helpful to one's specific physiology and endocannabinoid system.

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The world was without Cannabis until the term was first coined in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician who formalized binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms and is known as the "father of modern taxonomy".

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In 1789 , French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, first published the name Cannabis indica. He was describing a cannabis plant variety he had discovered from India. It was bushier and smaller that the Cannabis Sativa plants that were well known at that time, but was considered to be a sub- species, not a different plant.

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I have learned a ton about terpenes from Leafly.

This is an exciting time for Cannabis. We are seeing the lies of past 100 years dry up fall away, as little sprigs of truth spew out of the brachts of liberty. I believe the growing of one's own garden is resistance to tyranny, taxation is theft, food is life, and all use is medicinal.

  hemp (n.)

 Old English hænep "hemp, cannabis sativa," from Proto-Germanic
  *hanapiz (source also of Old Saxon hanap  Old Norse hampr, 
 Old High German hanaf, German Hanf), probably a very early 
 Germanic borrowing of the 
same Scythian word that became Greek kannabis (see cannabis). 
As the name of the fiber made from the plant, 
by c.1300. Slang  sense of "marijuana" dates from 1940s; 
scientific applications for the narcotic derived from 
hemp date to 1870.

-entymology online

  Classification for Kingdom Plantae Down to Species Cannabis sativa L


   Up to the Kingdom
   Kingdom  Plantae – Plants
   Subkingdom  Tracheobionta – Vascular plants
   Superdivision  Spermatophyta – Seed plants
   Division  Magnoliophyta – Flowering plants
   Class  Magnoliopsida – Dicotyledons
   Subclass  Hamamelididae
  Order  Urticales
  Family  Cannabaceae – Hemp family
  Genus  Cannabis L. – hemp P
  Species  Cannabis sativa L. – marijuana P

fromUSDA