Drug info - Why are cannabis strains called strains and not cultivars?

[vantranist]

I read strain isn't used very much in botany but cultivars?

[Metomni]

SWIM always figured they were almost synonymous except for cultivars are actively being cultivated into the new strain. Like, once the cultivar has fully become something new, it is then called a strain.

SWIM isn't sure though, this just seems logical to him.

[jkolt89]

Here's what Webster's dictionary says:

cultivar-: an organism and especially one of an agricultural or horticultural variety or strain originating and persistent under cultivation.

strain - a group of presumed common ancestry with clear-cut physiological but usually not morphological distinctions