I gather THC:CBD:CBN ratios can result in slightly differing highs, but none of that is linked in any consistent or reliable way to strains, right? It's my understanding those factors are far more linked to how the cannabis was grown and cared for than the plant's exact genetics.
And terpenes are not known to be psychoactive, yet a lot of people say they can influence the high to be either more sedating or stimulating. Is that true? My gut feeling is that's also bullshit and they only effect the smell and taste. I could see an argument that they indirectly influence the high in the same way your set and setting influences it, but certainly not in any consistent, reliable way, and especially not between different people.
My experience with weed, regardless of the terpene profile, strain, or indica/sativa has been that it's all basically the same high and there is not a soul on this Earth who could smoke some flower in a blind test and tell you what the strain is or even just if it's an indica or sativa.
man, i don't even know. the dogma of agricultural genetics is [phenotype = genotype + environment], so nutrition/environment play as big a role as genetics, with genetics maybe representing a "potential" and nutrition/environment gatekeeping the potential being reached. and the ideological frame of intellectual property is to consistently hype genetics as the most important thing in the world, because it's more easily "owned" under capitalism.
but down to the actual psychoactive experience/profile of various cultivars, i don't even know. budtender lore reminds me a lot of the patter around sommolier hype. <<Ah, Ouais, Le Grand Cru... hon hon hon.>>, but now we're talking about the metacognitive characterization of altered consciousness instead of pure aesthetics like taste and color, so i am even more dubious of so-called knowers.
i don't even do weed right apparently, so my opinion is fringe trash probably. when i blaze, i do the laundry, the dishes, organize my office, and like mop the house. it doesn't relax me so much as make drudgery seem very novel and engaging, so i put on some music and lay into some task. i used to wake and bake on a farm for all my routine chores. kinda how i want to do my retirement too. most people i know are the opposite, even when we are smoking the same batch. it makes them want to lay down and eat a bunch of cereal or chips while watching Die Hard. i could do that, but it would feel like a waste of the weed.