Chain of events: read article below (The Asylum Seeker) about the criminalization of queerness in Russia, think about how that's beginning to happen here, get massively depressed, read this article, smoke weed.

Hey, wouldn't it be great to have detailed, controlled scientific studies on how various terpenes affect the human body? Yeah, it would.

Given that cannabis is known to cause delusions of paranoia in more that just a few people it may not be the best thing to use in the treatment of depression. At least not without a lot more psychiatric study.

Everything I've known about weed tells me its a major depressant. It may "treat depression" in that it helps people mice on from other substances that are far more dangerous to the body (eg, Katie Herzog said she used marijuana to quit drinking, which is an upgrade, but kind of a impeach Trump install Pence kind of way)

@2, won't deny more/better science is called for, but you know, limonene for example is present in abundance in orange peels.

But there's some question in my mind as to whether it's so reliably present in "sativa" strains. There are publicly available test results - analytical360.com for example, has an archive with plenty of test results. I encourage you to look through them and see if these ideas about terpene profiles match their test results. Look at different Durban Poison tests for example. It looks to me, just from a half dozen or so, that the majority had more caryophyllene than limonene - the opposite of this article states. Weak testing technique? Could be, but I defy you to find anyone's test results showing any clear pattern in named strains. And that's all we have, since the terpene tests don't go on the package. If that's how it is, then the research is going to be kind of beside the point.