Relationship among subjective responses flavor and chemical composition across more than 800 commercial cannabis varieties

摘要

In this work, we combined different sources of data for the characterization of commercial cannabis cultivars, linking both self-reports of psychoactive effects and flavour profiles with information obtained from experimental assays of cannabinoid and terpene content. Our analysis comprised 887 different cultivars and was based on a large sample (> 100.000) of user reviews publicly available at the website Leafly (www.leafly.com). The reports contained unstructured written reviews of experiences for each commercial strain, as well as structured tags indicating flavour profiles and subjective effects. As for cultivar categorization, we used the “indica“, “sativa “and “hybrid “labels, since they were the ones provided in the Leafly dataset.