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Cannabis sativa

vr.tr.cannabis-sativa · thing-q26726

Enable an AI agent to recognise Cannabis sativa, assess a plant's identity, development, condition and measured chemistry, and determine which actions require further evidence or authorization.

Thing Registry Physical world and living systems PHY.LIV

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Classifiers What it is Why it exists Distinguishing features What robots and AI may and may not do Moral aspects Owners Links to other meta-models Identity and identifiers Direct properties Recognition Capabilities and actions Hazards and failure modes Standards and interfaces Context of use Sources

Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled

6 bundles · 11 layers · 11 findings · 21 questions

Botanical identity Evidence that the observed organism belongs to this registry concept.

Taxonomic placement

The authority and interpretation behind the species assignment.

Species assignment

Record the determination, taxonomic treatment, determiner and confidence separately from supplied names.

Which taxonomic treatment and determination support assigning this organism to Cannabis sativa? definition
Does a supplied 'sativa', 'indica' or 'hemp' label describe a botanical determination, commercial identity or other classification? boundary

Diagnostic evidence

Observable characters and retained evidence supporting recognition.

Morphological concordance

Record leaf construction, node position, stem habit and available reproductive characters together.

Which photographed or preserved characters support Cannabis identification, and at which developmental stage were they observed? measurement
Which plausible look-alikes remain unexcluded, and what additional organ or expert examination would distinguish them? boundary

Lineage and development The plant's biological origin and observed developmental trajectory.

Accession and propagation

Traceable origin without assumed genetic uniformity.

Lineage evidence

Separate documented source relationships from cultivar, strain and parentage claims.

Is the plant traceable to a seed lot, source cutting or tissue-culture accession? provenance
What evidence supports the cultivar or parentage claim beyond the supplier's label? provenance

Phenological trajectory

Dated transitions between vegetative, reproductive and declining states.

Stage and growth

Assess stage from visible organs and record growth using repeatable landmarks.

Which organs establish the current stage, and when was the preceding stage last observed? measurement
What changes in height, branching or senescence are documented alongside light and environmental history? measurement

Sex and reproductive state Observed flower types, reproductive activity and formation of propagules.

Flower expression

Reproductive characters recorded by organ, position and time.

Observed flower types

Retain evidence of staminate, pistillate or mixed expression, including the limits of inspection.

Which flower types are visible, at which positions, and on what inspection date? measurement
Is the recorded sex expression directly observed, inferred from a label or still indeterminate? provenance

Pollen and propagules

Evidence of reproductive activity relevant to containment and movement.

Reproductive status

Track pollen release and fruit or seed observations without treating absence of visible evidence as proof of absence.

What evidence establishes pollen release, pollen exposure, fruit formation or viable seed production? measurement
Does proposed movement or handling require assessment of pollen dispersal or viable propagules? action

Condition and tissue chemistry Plant health observations and chemical evidence at the scale actually examined.

Organ condition

Condition of leaves, stems, roots and reproductive tissues in environmental context.

Damage and diagnostic confidence

Separate observed symptoms from suspected pests, pathogens or environmental causes.

Which organs show damage, how extensive is it, and how has it changed between dated inspections? measurement
What diagnostic evidence is needed before attributing the symptoms to a pest, pathogen or environmental cause? action

Chemical observation

Traceable composition measurements with explicit sampling and reporting boundaries.

Sample-bounded profile

Link cannabinoid results to sampled tissue and distinguish measured analytes from calculated totals.

Which tissue, collection time, preparation, analytical method and mass basis produced each reported cannabinoid value? measurement
Which compounds were measured separately, which totals were calculated, and what supports extrapolation beyond this sample? boundary

Handling and material boundaries Decision prerequisites for acting on the plant and preserving identity when material is detached.

Contextual action eligibility

Connect a concrete proposed action to the evidence and external authority it requires.

Action prerequisites

Record the intended action and unresolved prerequisites without embedding universal legal thresholds.

For this place, date, custodian and proposed action, which current external rules or authorizations apply? action
If eligibility depends on a hemp or cannabinoid classification, does the available sampling and analysis satisfy the applicable rule? boundary

Detachment and traceability

Maintain provenance across sampling, cutting, harvesting and disposal events.

Derived material identity

Create explicit links from the source plant to detached organs, propagules and material batches.

What material was detached, from which plant and organ, when, and under which resulting sample or batch identity? provenance
Does the detached material require a specimen, propagule, harvested-material or processed-product model for its subsequent state? boundary

Evidence and external alignment What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.

Reported evidence

Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.

Kinds and varieties

Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.

Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Cannabis sativa this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Classifiers Filled

Family: Thing Registry
Category: Physical world and living systems
Entry kind: thing
Plane: PHY
Domain: PHY.LIV
Other names and narrower kinds: Nederwiet

What it is Filled

Cannabis sativa is an annual, typically dioecious flowering plant of family Cannabaceae whose cultivated and feral forms are distinguished in practice by chemistry (THC/CBD), use (fibre, seed, drug) and, in some taxonomic treatments, by subspecies or cultivar groups rather than by a single morphological species concept.

In scope

Botanical identification and the taxonomic interpretation used to assign Cannabis sativa
Accession, cultivar and propagation provenance, with uncertainty preserved
Vegetative development, flowering, sex expression, pollination and seed formation
Plant condition, environmental exposure and suspected biological damage
Organ-specific chemical observations and their sampling limitations
Evidence needed to assess proposed handling, sampling, transfer or removal

Out of scope

Manufacturing, formulation and quality control of extracted cannabinoids or finished cannabis products
Human intoxication, diagnosis, therapeutic efficacy and clinical dosing
Cultivation-facility design and commercial production scheduling
Complete population ecology, land management and regional invasive-species assessments
The content and interpretation of jurisdictional laws, licenses and enforcement procedures
Commodity specifications for detached fiber, food seed, oils and harvested flower batches

Why it exists Filled

Enable an AI agent to recognise Cannabis sativa, assess a plant's identity, development, condition and measured chemistry, and determine which actions require further evidence or authorization.

Distinguishing features Filled

Inspect whether mature leaves consist of separate, serrated leaflets radiating from one attachment, rather than a single deeply lobed blade; record juvenile or reduced upper leaves separately. [Flora of China](https://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=105522)
Use erect herbaceous habit together with palmately compound leaves and petiole characters to distinguish Cannabis from the related Humulus; a leaf silhouette alone is insufficient. [Flora of North America](https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=10154)
Check leaf arrangement at several stem positions: lower leaves can be opposite while upper leaves are alternate, so one isolated node is a weak identification test. [Flora of Pakistan](https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=105522)
Require a botanical determination tied to a named taxonomic treatment when interpreting labels such as 'sativa' or 'indica'; record a commercial label separately from the species assignment. Kew accepts Cannabis sativa L. as a species. [Plants of the World Online](https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn%3Alsid%3Aipni.org%3Anames%3A306087-2)
Require measured composition and an applicable classification rule to evaluate a 'hemp' claim; record the claim as unresolved when those inputs are missing rather than treating it as a visual identification.

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

Assist in growing, processing or selling cannabis outside the law of the place concerned.
Help supply cannabis to minors.
Present cannabis as a cure for disease or as harmless for everyone.
Encourage driving or operating machinery after use.

Only with a human decision

Medical use decisions, which belong to a clinician and patient.
Reporting a crop to authorities.

May

Identify cannabis plants and describe their legal status in a stated jurisdiction.
Support licensed hemp or medical growers with records and crop monitoring.

Moral aspects Filled

Laws on cannabis differ sharply between countries, and enforcement has fallen unevenly on some groups.
Heavy use harms some people, especially young people and those with psychosis risk.

Who is affected

Young people
Patients
Licensed growers and farmers

Owners Filled

Steward

The licensed grower or the landholder; drug and agriculture authorities license cultivation.

Master systems

National cannabis and hemp licensing registers

Links to other meta-models Filled

parent

Q11992872 - registry parent class
Q188840 - registry parent class
Q192691 - registry parent class

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled

Sources Filled

Cannabis sativa - Species circumscription, cultivated vs feral forms, common names, and the contested indica/ruderalis ranks.
Wikidata item Q26726: Cannabis sativa - identity and sense of the item

Open questions

Which taxonomic treatment should govern the registry's Cannabis sativa boundary, and how should alternative treatments and infraspecific names be mapped without creating duplicate concepts?
What minimum diagnostic evidence is sufficient for seedlings, sterile plants and fragmented specimens, and when is specialist or molecular confirmation needed?
Which sampling protocols justify extrapolating cannabinoid measurements from one organ or date to an individual plant or population?
Which developmental and condition assessments are validated across different accessions and growing contexts rather than assumed from a single cultivar?
Which existing Vercy models already own this species concept, detached propagules, harvested cannabis material and jurisdiction-specific permissions, and where must this draft link rather than duplicate?

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed

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