whenever i buy weed and the dealer tells me the strain and i look it up they have some similar characteristics but they are still different, this made me think are weed strains a scam? i think everyone in the weed game could lie about the name or the strain. i don't know exactly how weed is distributed but for this I'm going to guess, i think a farmer buys seeds of seed seller and a farmer sells kilos to people and the people with kilos either sell ounces or gets some to sell for them. this is just what ive heard.
A dealer would lie because the average pot smoker wouldn't waste their time looking up the strain. at least where i live dealers are also shady af and always try to rip people off so it wouldn't be a problem to lie about the strain. They would also lie because the person they got it off lied the them
The person who sells to the dealer would lie because they are there to maximize profits. if they just had some bad bud they would sell it for 180 a once but if its something like girl scout cookies they could sell it for 230 a ounce. they would also lie because they farmer lied to them about it.
the farmer might lie but probably wont because normally the person the who the farmer sells to are some pretty serious criminals or a gang or something. the farmer would lie because his seeds are shit and his plants are meant for quantity over quality and they want to maximize profit. another reason is because the seed seller lied to them.
the seed seller would lie to the farmer because the seeds are shit and don't produce good shit and they are in this to make money.
overall i think everyone tells the truth exept for the dealer, i think the dealers normally lie. this is my opinion, I'm in the UK, where weed is legal i think most of the strains are legit.