Sativa: “Sativa” is a common consumer label often contrasted with “indica”. In medical education it should be explained as informal, commercially influential and not reliable as a predictor of clinical outcome.

Patients often arrive expecting sativa to map neatly onto alertness or daytime use.

Better included as a myth-busting glossary term than as accepted clinical taxonomy.

Those assumptions are too unreliable for medical advice.

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