| Strain Name |
I/S Breakdown |
Genetics / Lineage: |
| Sativa |
| Cannabis Sativa strains are often characterized by their uplifting and energetic medicinal effect. They are known for causing a reaction that is mostly cerebral, with a crisp clear feeling in the head. Sativas give a feeling of optimism and wellbeing; they are known to heighten the senses and enable creativity. Sativa strains are often the preferred medicine for daytime as they cause less drowsiness than their Indica counterparts. |
| Chem Dawg |
90% Sativa – 10% Indica |
Originating from Colorado |
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Description:
Chem Dawg typically produces buds that are light green with a sativa-dominant bud structure. The hairs are orange-brown in color, while the buds are semi-dense, but covered in tiny trichomes. The smell and taste are similar: an intense sour pine-sol smell, mixed with mild, earthy undertones.
Medical Benefits:
The effects can be felt just seconds after inhaling, including a mood lift and a mild body buzz. This is a good choice for an energy boost and mental stimulation as well.
Patient Feedback: Cannabible 3 pg. 64 |
| Diesel Wreck |
100% Sativa |
Sour Diesel X Trainwreck |
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Description:
Gorgeous is the best word that comes to mind to describe this bud that oozes crystals and is overrun by bright orange hairs. This strain has a crunchy consistency, due to completed, resonated flowers. (This one creates a lot of kief.) At first, the nose is overwhelmed by the smell of gasoline, that gradually leads to sweet, fruity undertones. It can be a bit harsh at times, but when done right, it is deliciously piney and fruity.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is a very well-balanced sativa. It is effective in treating depression, daytime pain and loss of appetite.
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| Durban Poison |
100% Sativa |
Pure land-race strain originating from South Africa |
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Description:
This strain is one of the last pure sativas. It has a sweet piney smell with a hint of mint and a sour finish. Its buds are large, dense and bright green.
Medical Benefits:
Although strong, this strain produces a high that is functional, crisp and clear headed.
Patient Feedback: A Medithrive patient favorite. Cannabible 1 pg. 67 |
| Green Ribbon |
85% Sativa – 15% Indica |
Trainwreck X Jedi |
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Description:
This strain produces buds that are extremely frosty (almost white in appearance), contrasted by bright orange hairs. This strain is unique, not just because of its large amount of crystals, but also because of the color of the flower itself. The smell is extremely sweet, and somewhat resembles a purple.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is mostly known for its uplifting feeling, leaving its user with a sense of ease. It is effective for treating depression or social disorders because of its happy-go-lucky effects.
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| Jack Herer (J1) |
90% Sativa – 10% Indica |
Skunk x Nothern Lights x Haze |
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Description:
This spicy sativa, named after the late great author, breeder and cannabis activist Jack Herer, is a result of years of selective breeding by the Sensi Seed company. It produces lengthy dense buds that are pointy at the top and covered in crystally calyx. This strain is extremely popular amongst sativa lovers and has won numerous Cannabis Cups and awards. It has a pungent taste and smell, which is spicy and piney, with a touch of sweet.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is super heady and very potent. It causes a strong euphoric effect that is not for the weak-hearted. Those who are prone to anxiety and paranoia should steer clear of this strain. Known for heightening the senses and twisting perception, the psychoactive properties of this strain are quite exceptional and are recommended for promoting creativity, deep thinking and energy.
Patient Feedback: This strain is known to cause headaches in some patient. |
| Sour Diesel |
95% Sativa – 5% Indica |
Mexican Sativa X Chemo |
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Description:
Sour Diesel is named for its distinct petroleum aroma. Sweet and sour scents come and go while the “famous fumes” of diesel remain constant. This strain has the typical sativa bud formation: fluffy with calyx buds. It is popular because of its great sativa strength that is both strong and clear-headed.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is typically ideal for those that like an awake, sharp, crisp or clear feeling. It induces creativity and heightens the senses.
Patient Feedback: Cannabible 3 Page 64-67; Big Book of Buds 3 Page 133; Big Book of Buds 2 Page 140 |
| Sour OG |
85% Sativa – 15% Indica |
Sour Diesel x OG Kush |
Description:
This strain was produced by crossing Sour Diesel and OG Kush. The result is an amazing bud that includes the most desirable characteristics from each of its parents. Sour OG buds look similar to Sour Diesel, with small dense buds covered with sticky trichomes and light-green leaves. The effect is a combination of its heritage as well, mixing a clear headed start with a classic, heavy OG finish.
Medical Benefits:
Sour OG is a very powerful strain and can be used for a variety of purposes. Its uplifting effects can be beneficial for depression. It can also be used to relieve pain during the day, but some may find that it can actually increase body awareness, so use with caution.
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| Super Silver Haze |
100% Sativa |
Old School Haze back-crossed with itself |
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Description:
This strain grows in the classic sativa fashion: tall and stringy with long leaves. This strain also yields large buds with light-brown hairs and a tint of orange-yellow. The aroma and taste are pungent and floral with sweet undertones. This strain embodies the unique characteristics of the original Haze, but finishes much faster.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is great for medicating in the day time as it yields an uplifting feeling without much drowsiness, if any at all. It is clear-headed and known for awakening the senses.
Patient Feedback: Cannabis Cup winner 3 years in a row (1997-1999). |
| Super Trainwreck |
100% Sativa |
Trainwreck x Trainwreck |
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Description:
The breeders of this strain took Trainwreck and back-crossed it with itself to eliminate unwanted traits. The result is in the name: a Super Trainwreck! Huge, light-green buds yield a ridiculous amount of resin, leaving behind an extremely pungent and unmistakable aroma: lemon pine with fruity undertones.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is great for treating depression, mild day-time pain relief and helping with creative stimulation.
Patient Feedback: This strain is not a good choice for those who are prone to anxiety or paranoia. Its strong effects can also sometimes heighten pain awareness. |
| Trainwreck |
100% Sativa |
its genetics are rooted in Super Silver Haze |
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Description:
This strain has a unique lemony-pine smell. It produces lightly colored buds with small narrow leaves and small, tight calyx.
Medical Benefits:
This strain produces a strong head high, stimulating creativity, easing depression and often creating a strong sense of euphoria.
Patient Feedback: This strain is not a good choice for those who are prone to anxiety or paranoia. Its strong effects can also sometimes heighten pain awareness. |
| Strain Name |
I/S Breakdown |
Genetics / Lineage: |
| Sativa Dominant Hybrid |
| Sativa dominant hybrids are strains that contain both cannabis indica and cannabis sativa. They lean toward the sativa (energy focus), but retain some of the medicinal qualities of both. With the many combinations and complex genetics of modern hybrids, it is impossible to generalize about the qualities of hybrids’ smoke, high or other characteristics, which are truly dependent on the particular strain. Get to know each strain to better understand its unique medical benefits. |
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| Agent Orange |
Sativa Dominant Hybrid |
Jack’s Cleaner x Space Queen x Orange Velvet |
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Description:
This strain has a unique lemon-pine smell that only Trainwreck can claim. It produces lightly colored buds with small narrow leaves and small tight calyx.
Medical Benefits:
Agent Orange eases mild daytime pain and elevates appetite and mood. It is best suited for treating anti-social disorders.
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| AK-47 |
65% Sativa – 35% Indica |
Jack’s Cleaner x Space Queen x Orange Velvet |
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Description:
Despite its aggressive name, AK-47 has many peaceful tendencies. First bred in 1992, AK-47 produces dark dense buds and fire red hairs. It has a spiced aroma bordering on skunk with hints of woodsy undertones, but tastes sweeter and more floral than its scent suggests. AK-47 has mostly sativa characteristics with one exception: a quick finishing time.
Medical Benefits:
The effect is a pleasant high with a clear-headed cerebral feeling.
Patient Feedback: Cannabible 1 pg. 28; Big Book of Buds #1 pg. 2 |
| Banana |
60% Sativa – 40% Indica |
OG Kush x Sagamartha’s |
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Description:
The scent is pure kush-skunk, but the taste is thick with banana undertones. The effect is mild but yields a euphoric body buzz. This bud is geared towards relaxation rather than sedation.
Medical Benefits:
Banana is great at easing pain, stress, anxiety and would be an effective sleep aid for primarily sativa smokers. It has the heavy hitting effects of an OG, but with more sativa lift.
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| Big Kahuna |
Sativa Dominant Hybrid |
Pineapple x Skunk #1 x Hawaiian Afghani |
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Description:
This strain yields big, beautiful buds with a sweet, skunky smell. This strain is very clear-headed, but the body buzz is there too. Its potent effect begins cerebral and heady, but turns heavier as it settles in.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is a great sativa for the daytime, but has enough depth for those looking for mild pain relief or relaxation. No anxiety accompanies this sativa hybrid, just a mild sense of euphoria.
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| Big Lebowski |
Sativa Dominant Hybrid |
OG Kush x LA Confidential x Pineapple x Ogre |
Description:
This strain is bright green in color and covered with clear or white crystals. Some of the most crystallized buds out there, these nuggets shine like glitter. It has a sweet, fruity, hazey smell that comes through its thick, smooth smoke.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is a strong sativa with a strong wiry feeling. It is great for getting things done and promoting energy and focus during the day.
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| Blue Cheese |
80% Sativa – 20% Indica |
Blueberry X Big Buddha Cheese |
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Description:
Blue cheese has round swirls of compact flowers that develop purple hues near harvest time. This strain is mostly cheese with a slight hint of the blueberry and its smell and taste follow the same trend.
Medical Benefits:
This strain creates a happy, euphoric effect that maintains brain clarity and function.
Patient Feedback: Big Book Buds #3 Pg. 40 |
| Blueberry Cheese |
75% Sativa – 25% Indica |
(Blueberry x UK Cheese) x UK Cheese |
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Description:
This strain produces dense but small buds. The phenotype generally seen in the Bay Area is tan in color with a hint of a deep lavender. The smell is fruity, but has a classic cheese taste with some fruity undertones.
Medical Benefits:
This strain produces a nice, mellow high. Its effects are strong, but very pleasant and calming. This strain produces mild sedative effects and is perfect for relieving anxiety and depression.
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| Blue Dream |
80% Sativa – 20% Indica |
Super Silver Haze (SSH) x Blueberry |
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Description:
Blue Dream is characterized by its bright green color and abundance of bright orange hairs. The smell is very sweet with a spicy after scent. The buds look like SSH, but smell like blueberry. This strain yields an amazing taste that is not too harsh on the throat or lungs.
Medical Benefits:
The effect starts out very stoney, but lightens up into a nice mellow cerebral high that lingers for hours. This strain is great for anxiety, social disorders and depression because of its euphoric nature. It also helps to stimulate the appetite, ward off depression and ease nausea.
Patient Feedback: Patients love it because they claim it gives them the perfect effect: uplifting without being too wiry, and relaxing without being too sleepy. Growers like it because it is high-yielding, finishes quickly and is considerably resilient. |
| Cheese |
65% Sativa – 35% Indica |
Colombian Gold x Acapulco Gold x Afghani |
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Description:
A very potent strain, this unique flower has lime and dark-green buds with thick, pinkish hairs and swollen trichomes. This strain has a definite sativa-dominant bud structure. It smells like a sharp cheese, while tasting of spice with skunky undertones.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is effective for daytime pain relief because of its well-balanced hybrid effect.
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| Cheese OG |
75% Sativa – 25% Indica |
OG Kush x Big Buddha Cheese |
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Description:
These buds are tightly grown and take on the structure of a regular OG. The strain has the peppery piney characteristics of an OG, but with the skunky stink of the cheese as well.
Medical Benefits:
The effects of this strain are instant and long-lasting, beginning with an intense head-rush followed by a thick, full-body stone. This strain is effective for treating depression, anxiety, daytime pain, loss of appetite, nausea and MS.
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| Chem 4 |
60% Sativa – 40% Indica |
Chem 4 is a phenotype of Chem Dawg |
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Description:
These buds are almost always bright green in color with dark hairs and a signature yellowish resin. On one end you have OG Kush and the other Sour Diesel, both yielding smells described as fuel-like, sour and piney. Chem 4 fits right between the two.
Medical Benefits:
The instant head kick upon exhaling lifts one’s mood, making this a potent, heady and happy high. Although this strain is mostly uplifting, it has just enough indica to keep most people relaxed.
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| Chernobyl |
60% Sativa – 40% Indica |
Trainwreck x Trinity x Jack the Ripper |
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Description:
This strain is a combination of sweet and sour tastes with lime Slurpee undertones. Compact bright green buds covered in trichomes are wrapped in large orange hairs. The smell is sweet, almost skunky, with a little spice and herb scent, resembling J1’s spice. The taste is delicious, intense and spicy.
Medical Benefits:
This clear-headed sativa is perfect for the daytime smoker or someone looking for pain relief, mood elevation or energy during the day.
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| Dankouver |
75% Sativa – 25% Indica |
Unknown – NL x Haze |
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Description:
One of the “dankiest” buds around, this strain’s pungent aroma of citrus and maple syrup, and the completely covered resinous flowers excite the senses. Sticky light-green buds are covered with yellow trichomes that stick to your fingers.
Medical Benefits:
This sativa hybrid has many of the great qualities of Blue Dream in that it has balanced effects. Its resilient high yield is also great for growers.
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| Dream Queen |
80% Sativa – 20% Indica |
Space Queen x Blue Dream |
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Description:
This stain produces large, round, dense buds with fiery red hairs. It is known for its spicy-sweet smell and strong sativa effect.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is great for getting out there and being active physically. It provides long-term energy.
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| Harlequin |
75% Sativa – 25% Indica |
Laos and a Swiss native land-race strain |
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Description:
The smell and taste of this strain are sweet with an almost syrupy heaviness that is pleasant on the inhale, as well as on the exhale. The plant itself is known for being a high producer and yields buds that are extremely large and dense.
Medical Benefits:
This strain was specifically designed to be higher in CBDs and CBN, and lower in THC. It is has a balance and calming effect and is most effective in treating pain and inflammation. This strain was bred to produce medical benefits without psychoactive effects.
Patient Feedback: It yields a great pain-relieving, anti-inflammatory effect, without the psychoactive effect. |
| Hawaiian Haze |
Sativa Dominat Hybrid |
Hawaiian Island Sativa x Super Silver Haze |
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Description:
This strain has a unique smell of fruity sweetness. It is super moist and sticky (but still very smokable) with buds that are small-to-medium sized and very dense.
Medical Benefits:
The effect is high, airy and cerebral. It inspires a euphoric mood, positively effecting the clarity of your thoughts.
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| Headband |
80% Sativa – 20% Indica |
OG Kush x Master Kush x Sour Diesel |
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Description:
This strain’s dense buds have a pungent Sour-Kush aroma. Its genetics are very similar to the Sour OG, but is less sativa-dominant. The samples often found in the Bay Area are generally small buds that are extremely crystal packed with a smell similar to Sour Diesel.
Medical Benefits:
The effect is intense, high-energy and long-lasting. This strain is a good choice for daytime smoking when focus and clarity are important.
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| Jack the Ripper |
65% Sativa – 35% Indica |
Jack Herer x Northern Lights x Romulan x Cinderella99 |
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Description:
This strain has many of the same aesthetic properties as J1, including fiery red hairs and calyx buds, but is less pointy, having more of an indica bud structure.
Medical Benefits:
This cross makes for a more mellow high than regular Jack Herer due to the indica presence. It is recommended for a cerebral effect without the anxiousness that some experience with regular Jack Herer.
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| KC Jones |
85% Sativa – 15% Indica |
Jack Herer x KC Brains |
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Description:
This strain takes on the spicy smell of Jack Herer, but with a sweet undertone. It produces large, lengthy buds that are rarely dense and always covered in calyx. This strain is sometimes confused with Casey Jones, which is a Trainwreck and Thai cross.
Medical Benefits:
KC Jones is a great, functional sativa that can be used to manage pain during the daytime. It can be successfully used as a mood elevator as well.
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| Kushage |
Sativa Dominant Hybrid |
OG Kush x S.A.G.E. |
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Description:
A cross of OG Kush (mother, sativa) and S.A.G.E. (father, sativa-indica), Kushage buds are extremely dense with an unbelievable amount of amber-colored trichomes. SAGE stands for Sativa Afghani Genetic Equilibrium, but also describes the aroma of this interesting hybrid. SAGE’s mother is a native Californian called Big Sur Holy, a sativa with a long finishing time, but strong mold and bug resistance. This is combined with a chunky, Afghani indica, selected for its extreme characteristics. This strain boasts overwhelming flavors of citrus, pine, spice and earth, with undertones of mango or papaya.
Medical Benefits:
This is a great strain for use during the day or night, but tends to have a somewhat heavy crash, causing drowsiness after about 2 hours.
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| LA Confidential |
55% Sativa – 45% Indica |
Aghani x OG Kush |
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Description:
LA Confidential is sweet and piney with a classic skunky aroma, and both of these traits carry over into the taste. This well-rounded strain delivers a fast-approaching high that is both psychedelic and calming on the mind and body.
Medical Benefits:
It has been said that this strain resembles hash smoke since it is so thick and spicy. Its effects come on fast and are hard hitting, with a psychedelic component. LA Confidential is great for pain relief, insomnia, appetite stimulation and general anxiety.
Patient Feedback: Big Book of Buds #3 pg. 114 |
| MK Ultra |
60% Sativa – 40% Indica |
OG Kush x G-13 |
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Description:
This strain takes on many characteristics of the dominant OG Kush, but is unique in its production of large, dank, sticky buds that are saturated in resin. The strain is named after a covert CIA operation that took place between the late 1950’s and early 1970’s. The operation’s primary purpose was to abusively test the capacity of the human body (e.g. pumping a test subjects body with a particular chemical to see how much they could take, verbally abusing a subject to see how long they could take it without breaking down.)
Medical Benefits:
This strain is a great pain reducer that can be used during the day or night. It produces a strong psychoactive effect.
Patient Feedback: Cannabible 3 pg. 138, Big Book of Buds #2 pg. 91 |
| Orange Velvet OG |
85% Sativa – 15% Indica |
Orange Skunk x OG Kush |
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Description:
Orange Velvet produces one of the strongest aromas of any cannabis strain. Its smell is very citrusy and astringent, not unlike a cleaning product.
Medical Benefits:
This strain produces an intense effect. It is overwhelmingly a sativa, but has some indica depth to it as well. This strain will make you think deeply, elevate your mood and yield a nice boost of energy.
Patient Feedback: Despite the intense smell and taste of this strain, be assured that it is grown 100% organically and is flushed perfectly well. This strain is an all around A+. |
| OG Kush |
Sativa dominant hybrid |
Chem Dawg and sister to Sour Diesel |
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Description:
This strain is a descendent of Chem Dawg and sister to Sour Diesel. Despite the name, there is very little, if any, actual Afghani “Kush” in it. At the time that this strain was created, the only comparable strains were those of the of the Hindu Kush Mountains, Northern India and Pakistani regions. It adopted the name Kush and it has stuck ever since.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is great for patients who have a high tolerance because it produces strong effects that are long-lasting.
Patient Feedback: Cannabible 3 pg. 152 |
| Purple Diesel |
55% Sativa – 45% Indica |
Purple Kush x Sour Diesel |
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Description:
This strain produces large, dark, purple nugs that give off a pungent, fruity scent. When smoked, Purple Diesel tastes fruity with an overpowering diesel flavor.
Medical Benefits:
Purple Diesel is a favorite among daytime users who deal with pain. It produces an invigorating body high, while allowing the patient to still be productive in daily tasks and activities. It also offers extraordinary cerebral effects and has been known to give the user a euphoric high to help counter feelings of sadness or hopelessness. This is a great hybrid that appeals to a wide variety of medical symptoms, including stress relief, depression, migraines and pain relief.
Patient Feedback: Cannabible 3 pg. 138, Big Book of Buds #2 pg. 91 |
| Queen Elizabeth Kush |
75% Sativa – 25% Indica |
Super Silver Haze x OG Kush |
Description:
This potent variety of cannabis has a distinct aroma, appearance and long-lasting psychoactive effects. The buds look similar to OG Kush, but lighter in color and more spindly in formation (due to the haze genetics). However, the piney taste and potent effects of the Queen Elizabeth remain relatively close to the highly exalted OG Kush. The difference is that the Queen yields a uniquely heady, energy boost and instead of finishing off with a more heavy indica effect, the Queen stays high, energetic and clear-headed.
Medical Benefits:
Queen Elizabeth is an incredibly effective daytime medicine, ideal for treating stress, bipolar disorder, nervousness, migraines, depression and chronic pain.
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| Real McCoy |
60% Sativa – 40% Indica |
Hawaiian x Skunk #1 |
Description:
A very special cross for the true connoisseur! The Real McCoy has a wonderfully sweet and spicy bouquet and taste that can only be described as smoking a “tropical salad bar.” It offers an instant tingling of the tongue, tasting sweet and spicy, yet it is still soft on the throat. Within minutes, a happy cerebral buzz rests behind your eyes, enhancing any daytime activities and allowing for creativity and concentration.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is great for sativa lovers, offering immediate stress relief and mild body relaxation. The Real McCoy is an ideal connoisseur’s strain, giving potent and long-lasting effects with a delicious flavor.
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| Real McCoy OG Kush |
Sativa dominant hybrid |
Real McCoy x OG Kush |
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Description:
This strain produces beautiful buds that resemble OG Kush, but are lighter in color, have less diesel-pine smell, and more of a sweet and fruity aroma. The taste is a palatable mixture of the pungent pine of the OG and the sweet surprise of the Real McCoy.
Medical Benefits:
This strain yields a strong OG effect but is more clear-headed, less fuzzy and more functional. It is great for daytime smokers who are looking for a functional, slightly energetic and highly anti-depressive medicine.
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| SFV OG |
60% Sativa – 40% Indica |
aka San Fernando Valley OG |
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Description:
This strain is a great OG variety with small characteristic differences because of its genetic expression growing in Southern California.
Medical Benefits: As with most OG strains, the SFV is known for its strong, hard-hitting sativa beginning and its relaxing heavy indica finish.
Patient Feedback: Cannabible 3 pg. 138, Big Book of Buds #2 pg. 91
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| Silver Blues |
80% Sativa – 20% Indica |
Super Silver Haze x Blue Dream (Blueberry x SSH) |
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Description:
The breeder of this strain took Blue Dream and back-crossed it with its original mother, Super Silver Haze. The finished product is a strain that takes on most of the characteristics of Blue Dream, but is even more uplifting and enegertic.
Medical Benefits:
Silver Blues is effective for treating depression, and is ideal for those looking for daytime pain relief with a functional edge.
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| Sour Cherry |
50% Sativa – 50% Indica |
Sour Diesel x Cherry AK-47 |
Description:
Sour Cherry is comprised of two extremely potent strains: Sour Diesel and Cherry AK-47. The incredible aroma rising from these buds is a mixture of cherry pie and gasoline, just as its genetics would suggest.
Medical Benefits:
These flowers are effective at treating anxiety, depression and daytime pain.
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| Sour Grapes |
55% Sativa – 45% Indica |
Sour Diesel x Grape Ape |
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Description:
This strain is a great hybrid. It takes on the sweet of the purple and sour of the diesel, making it perfectly balanced in flavor and effect. It can be both relaxing and stimulating.
Medical Benefits:
Sour Grapes could be a poster child for the “hybrid class” of medical cannabis because of its ability to ease body tension, inflammation, depression and anxiety. Its well-balance effects allow for a endless variety of medical benefits.
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| Strawberry Cough |
Sativa Dominant Hybrid |
Strawberry Fields x Haze |
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Description:
True to its name, Strawberry Cough has a sweet strawberry smell and thick smoke that will leave you coughing. Strawberry Cough buds are large and dense and are often covered in sticky trichomes. This medicine provides a nice sativa buzz that will lift your spirits. Overall, this strain is a comfortable, enjoyable, yet powerful experience.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is known for its intense effect. It leans ever so slightly toward the sativa side, but has many indica characteristics as well. This strain will produce a strong body high and will make your eyes heavy, but won’t necessarily cause couch-lock.
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| Strawberry Diesel |
Sativa Dominant Hybrid |
NYC Diesel x Strawberry Cough |
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Description:
This strain has dense, sticky buds blanketed with intense trichome coverage and multicolored orange hairs. Strawberry Diesel yields buds that smell uniquely pungent, like a strawberry fruit roll-up with hints of cinnamon, pine, grape, lemon and fuel. It’s aptly described as: “Diesel up front, with a strawberry shortcake finish.”
Medical Benefits:
The effects take hold within seconds, yielding an intense, hard-hitting and cerebral stone. Strawberry Diesel is effective at treating social disorders because of its anti-anxiety properties. This strain is not recommended for important cognitive tasks.
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| Tahoe OG Kush |
Sativa Dominant Hybrid |
Genetically adapted to the Lake Tahoe region |
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Description:
This is an original OG Kush strain grown in and genetically adapted to the Lake Tahoe region. This strain is a descendent of Chem Dawg and sister to Sour Diesel. Despite the name, there is very little, if any, actual Afghani “Kush” in it. At the time that this strain was created, the only comparable strain were those of the of the Hindu Kush Mountains, Northern India and Pakistani regions. It adopted the name Kush and it has stuck ever since.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is great for patients who have a high tolerance because it produces strong effects that are long lasting.
Patient Feedback: Cannabible 3 Page 152 |
| UK Cheese |
55% Sativa – 45% Indica |
Unknown. Possibly a Skunk #1 Pheno |
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Description:
This strain is unusually bright green and can produce large, dense, crunchy flowers wrapped with chunky trichomes. The scent is very close to an old-school skunk, with slight “cheesy” accents.
Medical Benefits:
The UK is a true hybrid, and is ideal for treating daytime pain, anxiety, restlessness, and offers a slight mental stimulation with a stoney finish.
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| Woody OG |
70% Sativa – 30% Indica |
Hindu Kush x O.G. Kush x Master Kush |
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Description:
This strain is a cross of a number of Kush strains and tends to have a good amount of variation between batches. It is ‘in between” the Hindu and the OG Kush strains as it often retains the signature OG smell with more of an Afghani-Hindu bud structure.
Medical Benefits:
Woody OG is an uplifting sativa without the signature up-and-down of an OG strain. It can be a fairly mild, yet produces a thoroughly enjoyable high under most conditions.
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| XXX |
85% Sativa – 15% Indica |
Chem Dawg x (Chem dawg x OG) |
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Description:
This Chem Dawg and OG cross is a popular Southern California Kush. The Bay Area variety has light-colored, fluffy buds that resemble Chem Dawg significantly more than OG. The resin, on the other hand, is thick but not as sticky as a typical OG. The taste is slightly more mild than Chem Dawg, with pine and diesel accents.
Medical Benefits:
This strain yields a well-balanced head high that lasts for hours.
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| Strain Name |
I/S Breakdown |
Genetics / Lineage: |
| Indica Dominant Hybrid |
Indica dominant hybrids are strains that contain both cannabis indica and cannabis sativa. They lean toward the Indica (relaxation, pain relief), but retain some of the medicinal qualities of a sativa. With the many combinations and complex genetics of modern hybrids, it is impossible to generalize about the qualities of hybrids’ smoke, high or other characteristics, which are truly dependent on the particular strain. Get to know each strain in order to understand its unique medical benefits.
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| Berry White |
Indica Dominant Hybrid |
Blueberry x White Widow |
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Description:
Sour berries dominate the taste and smell of this bud. Released as a “celebrity seed” alongside Jennifer Afghaniston, Patrick Swazi, Elvis Press and others for a limited time in the UK.
Medical Benefits:
This strain eases anxiety, chronic pain, insomnia, multiple sclerosis and nausea. It also elevates appetite and mood.
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| Blackberry OG Kush |
20% Sativa – 80% Indica |
Blackberry Kush (Afghani x DJ Shorts Blueberry) |
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Description:
Blackberry OG buds are dark green and purple. This strain has an OG bud structure with hints of purple. It smells sweet and has a grape-candy aftertaste.
Medical Benefits:
Blackberry OG is effective for body aches and pains, insomnia, loss of appetite, nausea, anxiety and depression. This strain has the strong effects of the OG, but is much heavier because it is crossed with such an intense indica. The end result is something very unique and very heavy.
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| Blueberry |
80% Sativa – 20% Indica |
Purple Thai x Afghani |
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Description:
The buds of this strain are fox-tailed and have a structure similar to Sour Diesel, but are darker, with bright color hairs. The buds are lavender in color, while the smell and taste is reminiscent of blueberries, but a bit muskier. The smoke is not too harsh and the high gets increasingly stronger, inducing an almost euphoric feeling.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is great for all mild body aches and pains, insomnia, depression and loss of appetite.
Patient Feedback: Big Book of Buds #1 Pg. 19 |
| Bubba Kush |
Indica dominant hybrid |
Afghani land-race variety |
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Description:
This strain is thought to be an Afghani land-race variety. It produces very dense, deep-purple buds with white crystals, yielding very sticky flowers. Bubba has a classic spicy “kush” scent, with slight hints of ginger and pine, giving it an amazing taste that’s not too harsh on the throat or lungs.
Medical Benefits:
It produces an immediate, overwhelming sativa head rush that develops into a lingering body effect. This “couch-lock” strain could easily put you to sleep. It’s great for insomnia, loss of appetite, nausea, mild body aches and pains and glaucoma.
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| Cherry AK-47 |
40% Sativa – 60% Indica |
AK-47 x Cherry Pie Kush |
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Description:
This is one of the most beautifully resinous and colored strains. White and reddish trichomes cover even the fan leaves, while deep reds and purples dominate the rest of the bud down to the stem. With smells ranging from fruit loops to cherry pie, this bud is a connoisseur’s dream! An incredible cherry flavor rushes your taste buds on inhalation, while a sweet pine flavor builds on exhaling, and leaves your head buzzing.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is effective in treating pain relief, anxiety, depression and inflammation.
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| Cherry Kush |
40% Sativa – 60% Indica |
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Description:
Cherry Kush has a very pungent-berry smell, with a unique kushy undertone. These buds have a vibrant medium-green color, thick orange hairs and a dense bud structure, including a dense layer of trichomes. It has a distinct cherry flavor with a hashy, woodsy finish.
Medical Benefits:
The relaxed, yet stimulating high begins like a typical sativa and slowly but powerfully blends into a relaxed, stony high. This strain is effective in treating migraines, nausea, mild/severe pain, ADD/ADHD, inflammation, eating disorders and depression.
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| Crown Royal Purple |
20% Sativa – 80% Indica |
Hawaiian Sativa x Mikado x Unknown Purple |
Description:
These fluffy buds taste of citrus and pine on the inhale, with a smooth exhale and hint of purple. The beautiful, deep purple flowers have dark red hairs and are covered in white crystals, appearing as if they have been frosted with sugar.
Medical Benefits:
Although this strain is purple dominant, it has a strong head high that can be felt immediately. This feeling is followed by the typical relaxation of a purple, but more clear-headed.
Patient Feedback: This strain is great for people who like purple strains, but not the sleepy feeling they often yield. |
| Gemstone |
25% Sativa – 75% Indica |
Northern Lights x Lavender x Sour Diesel x Skunk #1 |
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Description:
As its genetics would suggest, this strain looks like a cross of every popular cannabis strain blended together into one. Light-green, dark-green, purple, lavender and bright red hairs can all be found on any nug of Gemstone. Its smell and taste is extremely strong, and both are dominated by a sweet overtone with an astringent, almost artificial smelling undertone.
Medical Benefits:
This strain has a psychedelic headiness that comes around to be very body heavy and sedating later on. This strain is a very well-balanced indica hybrid, so it is great for those that like the relaxing sedation of an indica without causing too much drowsiness.
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| God’s Gift |
35% Sativa – 65% Indica |
Grandaddy Purple x OG Kush |
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Description:
This strain has a fruity, sweet-grape, candy-taste with dense buds and many trichomes. It has become Bay Area connoisseur favorite because of its unique characteristics and effects.
Medical Benefits:
God’s Gift has some of the best characteristics of a purple strain, without the extreme sleepy effect that most purples yield. The effect is soothing, heavy and focusing at the same time.
Patient Feedback: Cannabible 3 pg. 138, Big Book of Buds #2 pg. 91 |
| Gorilla |
20% Sativa – 80% Indica |
Fucking Incredible x Big Bud |
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Description:
This strain is dark purple with a thick and earthy taste and smell.
Medical Benefits:
Gorilla is surprisingly sedating and is definitely a creeper. This strain is great for nighttime pain relief, anxiety relief or sleep aid. It will make you tingle from head to toe, take you around the world twice and leave you right back on your couch.
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| Grape God |
30% Sativa – 70% Indica |
God-bud x Grapefruit |
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Description:
This strain has typical northern California purple characteristics, with a very sweet grapey smell and earthy flavor.
Medical Benefits:
It produces an even head-body high, which makes it a versatile medicine. Grape God is great for relaxing at home and is known to relieve stress, pain and anxiety.
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| Grapefruit Diesel |
40% Sativa – 60% Indica |
Grapefruit x Sour Diesel |
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Description:
This lengthy hybrid strain produces large, purple buds that grow on a more sativa-looking plant.
Medical Benefits:
It is great for purple lovers who don’t like the sleep-inducing effects of most purples. Grapefruit Diesel is also a good choice for sativa fans who want something for the evening.
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| Hindu Cheese |
Indica dominant Hybrid |
Hindu Skunk x Cheese |
Description:
This strain has a similar taste and smell to the Cheese strain, with the earthy, spicy undertones of the Hindu.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is a great hybrid that isn’t overwhelmingly strong. It has a nice, mellow effect that won’t make you pass out on your couch and won’t keep you up thinking all night.
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| Hindu Skunk |
20% Sativa – 80% Indica |
Hindu Kush x Skunk #1 |
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Description:
This popular strain yields a taste that is extremely spicy and an effect that is very strong. It tends to be harsh on the inhale, but this varietal has a lot to offer with a strong relaxing effect.
Medical Benefits:
Hindu Skunk usually yields a clear buzz and a slightly delayed effect.
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| Jedi |
20% Sativa – 80% Indica |
White Rhino x Lion’s Gate |
Description:
This indica-dominant hybrid grows large, dark-green colas. Jedi is known for its long brownish-red hairs that literally cover its buds. This strain is most popular in Southern California dispensaries, but is often found up north as well.
Medical Benefits:
Jedi is very relaxing without being too sleep-inducing. It has similar characteristics to White Rhino in that it looks and smells more like a sativa, but the effect is “couch-lock city.”
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| Lavender |
30% Sativa – 70% Indica |
Big Skunk Korean x Afghani Hawaiian X Super Skunk |
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Description:
Lavender is a dense, light-purple, indica hybrid. The buds are consistent in size, with a tinge of purple and a nice layer of trichomes. The smell resembles wet lavender, with hints of flowery, perfume-like overtones.
Medical Benefits:
It’s a versatile strain that can be both relaxing to the point of sleep or simply clear the mind and relieve stress.
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| Maui Purple |
20% Sativa – 80% Indica |
Granddaddy Purple x Maui Wowie |
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Description:
This strain yields large, purple buds that are extremely dark in color. Although this strain is extremely potent, it is not particularly crystally, and is more likely to have a few large resin glands.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is great for relaxing at the end of a long day. It will yield a relaxing affect that will likely put you in a pleasant mood, helping you zone out and calm your mind.
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| Mazar |
20% Sativa – 80% Indica |
Afghani strain from Mazar-i-Sharif x Skunk #1 |
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Description:
This Dutch passion seed is very popular in Europe and has much variation in its phenotypes. There are several American varieties that are characterized by their large buds (mostly colas), paired with a piney smell.
Medical Benefits:
This strain has so much variation that its medical benefits may vary from batch to batch.
Patient Feedback: Big Book of Buds # 2 pg. 88 |
| Mr. Nice |
35% Sativa – 65% Indica |
G-13 x Hash Plant |
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Description:
There are two Mr. Nice strains and both produce buds that are soft purple in color and covered with crystals. Usually on the smaller side, these buds rarely cure to a dense crunchiness. Instead, they are left soft and sticky.
Medical Benefits:
This is a unique hybrid that produces a calming sensation, with low psychoactive effect, or “fuzziness.”
Patient Feedback: Cannabible 2 pg. 17 |
| MSM Mr. Nice |
35% Sativa – 65% Indica |
Grandaddy Purple x Trainwreck |
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Description:
This variety of Mr. Nice Strain is more commonly offered at Medithrive. Both Mr. Nice strains produce buds that are soft purple in color and covered with crystals. Usually on the smaller side, these buds rarely cure to a dense crunchiness. Instead, they are left soft and sticky.
Medical Benefits:
This unique hybrid produces a calming sensation, with low psychoactive effect, or “fuzziness.”
Patient Feedback: Cannabible 2 pg. 17 |
| Purple AK-47 |
25% Sativa – 75% Indica |
Grandaddy Purple x AK-47 |
Description:
This strain is seen in cannabis clubs in both Northern California and Southern California, and is favored among nighttime patients. Despite its aggressive name, AK-47 has many peaceful tendencies. First bred in 1992, the name suggests the power packed in its dark, resinous, compact buds that bristle with red hairs and glistening trichomes. AK-47 has a spicy aroma, bordering on skunk, with hints of woodsy undertones. It tastes sweeter and more floral than the smell might lead one to expect.
Medical Benefits:
After the sweet, dank, grape flavor hits your taste buds, a mellow, relaxing high follows. Purple AK-47 is not likely to give you couch-lock, as the Sativa AK-47 in this hybrid delivers noticeable heady effects that awaken the senses. This strain is effective for treating pain (especially during the daytime), nausea, anxiety, depression and migraines.
Patient Feedback: Purple AK-47 can be a little spacey, but is great for playing and listening to music and relaxing at home with friends or other social activities. |
| Purple Bubba |
Indica dominant hybrid |
The Purps and the notorious Blue Buddha |
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Description:
The buds of this strain smell extremely fruity, light and floral. The taste is a noticeable combination of grape and fruit flavors, with a definite hash accent on the exhale. You get the purple on the front end, sweet and soft, and the Bubba Kush on the back end, harsh and peppery. This strain will lock you hopelessly on your couch. A magnificent nighttime bud.
Medical Benefits:
The effect of this potent strain is immediate. An overwhelmingly powerful, yet pleasant, body high creeps up on you with slight noticeable cerebral stimulation. Purple Bubba is extremely effective in dealing with anxiety, chronic pain, loss of appetite, migraines and inflammation.
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| Purple Dawg |
40% Sativa – 60% Indica |
Grandaddy Purple x Chem Dawg |
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Description:
This strain has a fresh smell with moderate undertones of citrus and pine.
Medical Benefits:
It yields an effect that is clear, social and very energetic, inspiring motivation and focus. Audiovisual stimulation makes for a relaxed state of mind and pleasant body buzz. There is also a calming effect that helps with stress, depression, migraines and pain relief, while stimulating appetite.
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| Querkle |
20% Sativa – 80% Indica |
Purple Erkle x Space Queen |
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Description:
This TGA seeds strain took Subcool 10 years to perfect, with its lemon-berry aroma and incredible taste of sour-grape gum. A deep purple coloring from the buds to the fan leaves and tinted resin are common characteristic of this heavy flower. Querkle is great for low ceiling grows due to its short, fat, indica plant formation. It is common in the Bay Area as a mid-grade strain.
Medical Benefits:
This bud is recommended for nighttime use, but more experienced users may feel comfortable medicating with it during the daytime, as it generally does not induce couch-lock. It can alleviate a wide array of ailments including chronic pain, restless leg syndrome, insomnia, anorexia and migraines.
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| Skywalker |
20% Sativa – 80% Indica |
Mazar x Blueberry |
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Description:
This strain is known for producing large flowers that are distinctly sweet in smell and taste. The combination of Mazar and Blueberry creates a unique indica with dynamic effects. Its characteristics are closer to Purple Kush or Purple Diesel.
Medical Benefits:
Skywalker is a great indica with a low couch-lock factor. This strain is ideal for people who like indicas they can use during the day. Skywalker will leave you with a clear head and relaxed body.
Patient Feedback: Cannabible 3 Page 193 |
| Snow Cap |
80% Sativa – 20% Indica |
Originated in Amsterdam from Sensi Seeds |
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Description:
Snow cap is often produced in large, commercial grows because of its high yield and quick finish. When done correctly, this strain produces a very unique piney-sweet smell and large, sticky buds.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is heavy, relaxing and not very functional. Its effects can be extremely euphoric, making Snow Cap good for those that want to relax and reduce anxiety.
Patient Feedback: now Cap produces beautiful large buds, but they are sometimes prone to mold or bud-rot because of their size. This can sometimes be found in the big buds between the stem and nug. |
| Tangerine |
Indica – dominant |
Flo (DJ Short strain) X Grapefruit |
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Description:
This relatively rare strain from Colorado produces large, round buds with bright-red hairs. Its unique sweet smell could be described as astringent or like fresh pealed tangerines.
Medical Benefits:
Tangerine can be stoney and euphoric, producing instantaneous body relaxation and pain relief. This strain is effective for many sleep and anxiety disorders, and also helps patients tolerate the side-effects of cancer and HIV/AIDS treatments.
Patient Feedback: Many patients say it produces a tasty and potent tincture. |
| Vanilla Kush |
Indica dominant hybrid |
Kashmir x Afghan |
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Description:
A 2009 Cannabis Cup winner, Vanilla Kush is a relatively new Indica-dominant strain. This strain smells like wild vanilla and lavender, with hints of lemon and orange peel. Its taste is sweet, clean and mildly citrusy, with fruity, floral and herbal notes.
Medical Benefits:
Its long lasting effects are good for elevating mood, relaxing both mind and body and alleviating muscle pain.
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| White Rhino |
30% Sativa – 70% Indica |
White Widow x unknown North American Indica |
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Description:
Although this strain is a cross of the famous sativa, White Widow, this plant grows bushy and stout. White Rhino is known for its indica dominant effects, but it also yields the high and heady sativa effect of White Widow. The plant originally hails from Afghanistan, Brazil and India. This strain is a unique connoisseur’s delight.
Medical Benefits:
White Rhino is for those who want something relaxing, but not sleep-inducing. This strain can provide great pain relief, without causing significant drowsiness.
Patient Feedback: Big Book of Buds #3 Page 188 |
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I/S Breakdown |
Genetics / Lineage: |
| Indica |
| Cannabis Indica strains are often characterized by their heavy effect on the body. They are great for relaxation, stress relief and for creating an overall sense of calm and serenity. These strains are also very effective for relieving body pain and are commonly used in the treatment of insomnia. Indica strains are often the preferred medicine during the evening, as patients often find indica’s beneficial in sleep aid and general relaxation at the end of the day. |
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| Afghani |
100% Indica |
Originating in the Afghanistan |
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Description:
This pure, land-race strain originated in the Hindu Kush Mountains and surrounding Middle Eastern areas. Many strains have been crossed and bread with Afghani strains in the hope of taking on its heavy, hard-hitting effects. It produces dark-colored buds with bright orange hairs, sometimes with purple highlights. This strain is known for having small, tight and dense buds opposed to big fluffy ones.
Medical Benefits:
This strain has relaxing qualities; it will make your eyes lay low and sink you into your couch. It’s known to help ease back and migraine pains, assist with sleep aid and ease anxiety disorders.
Patient Feedback: Cannabible 1 pg. 27 |
| Afgooey |
10% Sativa – 90% Indica |
Maui Haze x Afghani |
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Description:
There are many different versions of this strain, but the variety most popular in the Bay Area is often called “Goo.” It has a very unique grape smell, similar to purple grape, but even sweeter and more astringent, almost like grape soda. It grows in a pine-tree formation and produces large cola’s.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is very relaxing, occasionally producing a strong narcotic effect, but isn’t as groggy or sleep-inducing as most purple strains. It eases anxiety, chronic pain, insomnia, multiple sclerosis and nausea, as well as elevating appetite and enhancing mood.
Patient Feedback: Cannabible 2 pg. 9 |
| Black Domina |
100% Indica |
Afghani x Ortega 6 x Hash Plant |
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Description:
This strain’s resinous buds range from a harsh peppery scent to the darker undertones of blackberries. The taste is peppery and spicy with a hint of sweet.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is great as a night cap. Its heavy effects and strong high will help you relax and is the perfect sleep aide.
Patient Feedback: Big Book of Buds # 1 pg. 16 |
| Blackberry |
10% Sativa – 90% Indica |
Black Domina x Raspberry Cough |
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Description:
These buds are a light, faded-green color with purple undertones and purple veins throughout. Some phenotypes finish almost completely mauve or purple. The smoke is heavy with a hint of berry, though not harsh. It has more weight than flavor. Like the buds themselves, the high is fluffy and airy, but finishes on the indica side.
Medical Benefits:
This strain increases appetite and eases chronic pain and nausea.
Patient Feedback: Cannabible 2 pg. 27 |
| Blackberry Bubba Kush |
10% Sativa – 90% Indica |
Blackberry Kush (Afghan x DJ Shorts Blueberry) |
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Description:
This strain yields a potent high that is so heavy on the body, it can almost be overwhelming. The buds are dark purple with orange hairs and white or amber crystals. It has a piney smell and a sweet earthy taste.
Medical Benefits:
Blackberry Bubba Kush is great for relieving anxiety, depression, insomnia, body aches and pains, loss of appetite and nausea. It can also help patients tolerate the effects of cancer and HIV/AIDS treatments.
Patient Feedback: This strain has amazing pain-relieving qualities. Many of our patients find that it can be used to replace vicodin, hydrocodon and morphine. |
| Blueberry Cotton Candy |
10% Sativa – 90% Indica |
Blueberry Kush (Afghani x DJ Shorts Blueberry) |
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Description:
This strain is deep purple and almost black in color. It has a very sweet smell.
Medical Benefits:
Its effect isn’t overwhelmingly strong, but would be effective for treating mild insomnia and mild body aches and pains. This strain has some purple genetics, but tends to have more depth because of its Kush genetics.
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| Bubblegum 1 |
15% Sativa – 85% Indica |
Big Skunk x NL #5 |
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Description:
This strain produces colors rarely found on cannabis, sometimes appearing blue or blue-green. It is named for its sweet, almost artificial smell. This plant is fickle and is known to be a low producer.
Medical Benefits:
It is surprisingly uplifting and euphoric for an indica-dominant strain, making it a good choice for those that like these functional qualities, but prefer an indica.
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| Burkle |
100% Indica |
Blueberry (DJ Short) x Purple Erkle |
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Description:
This strain produces beautiful, deep, lavender-colored buds that are generally small and dense. Its buds are always crystal packed, with fire-red hairs, and a subtle fruity flavor.
Medical Benefits:
It yields an immediate heavy body high. The effects of this strain would be great for insomnia, loss of appetite, nausea and pain relief.
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| Dabney Blue |
100% Indica |
Unknown origins |
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Description:
This strain was derived from DJ Short’s Blueberry. It is believed to be a land-race strain, but from unknown origins. This strain is characterized by really dense buds with a very musky smell on the front end, finishing with a lighter blueberry-muffin smell that lingers. Dabney buds are crystal-packed and have a variety of colors: light-green, dark-green, purple and mauve. The taste is very skunky with a touch of blueberry.
Medical Benefits:
The effect is a very strong body high with some lightness. It tends to be “giggly,” while still leaving you in a couch lock. This strain is great for insomnia, severe body aches and pains, loss of appetite, nausea and inflammation.
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| Durga Mata |
100% Indica |
Super Shiva x Super Shiva |
Description:
This strain gives off a smell that is spicy and sweet. It resembles a Turkish fruit and has hints of mint.
Medical Benefits:
It yields a heavy, sleepy effect and is good for pain relief, insomnia, relaxation and anxiety.
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| Green Erkle |
100% Indica |
Most often grown outdoors |
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Description:
This strain is a purple erkle variety that is most often grown outdoors where it is not cold enough to turn purple. These small, dense buds have hints of purple and a sweet taste.
Medical Benefits:
It is great for the evening for a mild effect, and is never overwhelmingly strong.
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| Grandaddy Purple (GDP) |
10% Sativa – 90% Indica |
Unknown origins |
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Description:
This strain has much variation. GDP produces small, tight purple buds that have a uniquely fabulous sweet, purple scent.
Medical Benefits:
Patients love this strain because it is extremely relaxing. For many, it is the quintessential indica: serious sleepy-time. It is also great for easing anxiety, migraines, muscle tension and pain.
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| Grape Ape |
Indica |
Northern California Area |
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Description:
As with GDP, this strain experiences a good amount of variation from batch to batch. It generally has an extremely sweet smell and buds that are slightly larger and longer than GDP.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is great for inducing sleep and easing anxiety, migraines, muscle tension and pain.
Patient Feedback: Cannabible 3 pg. 97 |
| Grapefruit “California” |
100% Indica |
Originating in Afghanistan |
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Description:
This strain is very stinky, with a subtle grape-like, earthy flavor. The variety most found in the Bay Area has spicy Kush buds with dark-green leaves. The smell is similar to Bubba: sweet, spicy and piney.
Medical Benefits:
This strain is potent and heavy enough to treat most chronic pain ailments. It can also be used to effectively treat insomnia or anxiety.
Patient Feedback: Cannabible 1 pg. 89 |
| (NL) X Blackberry Bubba Kush |
100% Indica |
NL x Blackberry Bubba Kush |
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Description:
This strain produces large, heavy, crystal-packed buds and is consistently one of the highest-yielding strains in the Bay Area. Although this bud naturally creates a dark backdrop to make the crystals pop, it also has a good amount of fuzz that isn’t necessarily trichrome resin.
Medical Benefits:
This strain has been gaining steady popularity in the Bay Area for its hard-hitting indica effects. It seems to have all the best qualities of an indica with none of the bad. It is couch-locking, but it doesn’t have the fuzzy, psychoactive effects that many patients find unpleasant. This strain helps patients tolerate the effects of cancer and HIV/AIDS treatments.
Patient Feedback: This strain has amazing pain-relieving qualities. Many of our patients find that it can be used to replace pain medication like vicodin, hydrocodon and morphine. |
| Purple Erkle |
100% Indica |
In Northern California |
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Description:
Purple Erkle comes from a Mendo Purps phenotype and is native to the notorious “Emerald Triangle” in Northern California. When properly grown and harvested, Purple Erkle is characterized by unusually long, orange hairs covering small, dense purple buds. The color is a purple, much like that found on quality strains of Lavender. This strain holds a skunky scent with a thick grape taste, reminiscent of GDP, with an extremely fruity exhale.
Medical Benefits:
This Indica strain is not for the novice patient, as many smokers have reported the effects as intense or overwhelming. Purple Erkle is great nighttime medicine for relieving pain, insomnia, nausea, anxiety, depression and migraines.
Patient Feedback: Cannabible 3 Page 181
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| Purple Kush |
100% Indica |
Hindu Kush x Purple Afghani |
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Description:
The genetics of this strain include Northern Lights, Skunk and Afghani. Romulan is a beautiful strain, producing a variety of colors on the buds, leaves and even stems. This strain produces light-green, fluffy buds covered in white and yellow crystals.
Medical Benefits:
Although Romulan is a pure indica, it is not overly drowsy. This strain could be described as offering a physical, trippy, sensual and relaxing experience with high functionality. These traits make it popular for those who require pain relief with no desire for a lethargic or sleepy feeling.
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| Purple Nurple |
100% Indica |
GDP x Mendo Purps x Purple Kush x Unknown Purple |
Description:
This strain, like many other purple strains, is native to Northern California’s “Emerald Triangle.” Much like its purple cousin, the Grandaddy Purple, Purple Nurple has an incredible sweet flavor and deep-body high. This strain produces tight, dense, purple buds with a heavy coating of trichomes.
Medical Benefits:
It is a great medicine for chronic pain, stress relief, anxiety, bipolar disorder, nervousness, Alzheimer’s, migraines and nausea.
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| Purple Odyssey 1 |
10% Sativa – 90% Indica |
Grandaddy Purple x Odyssey |
Description:
Odyssey was originally developed by Hope Net dispensary in San Francisco, but was so popular it has since been distributed throughout California. This strain is typically dark purple with even darker undertones. It retains the Odyssey smell, while the taste mixes the floral notes of the purple with the earthy tones of the odyssey.
Medical Benefits:
An immediate, uplifting head high keeps you active and energetic. A slight hybrid effect develops as the medicine runs its course. Purple Odyssey is effective at enhancing mood and for treating depression, chronic pain, stress, anxiety and nervousness.
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| Romulan |
100% Indica |
Northern Lights x Skunk x Afghani |
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Description:
The genetics of this strain include Northern Lights, Skunk and Afghani. Romulan is a beautiful strain, producing a variety of colors on the buds, leaves and even stems. This strain produces light-green, fluffy buds covered in white and yellow crystals.
Medical Benefits:
This strain has unique relaxing qualities; it will make your eyes lay low and sink you into your couch. This strain is known to help ease back and migraine pains, assist with sleep and ease anxiety disorders.
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| Ron Burgundy |
100% Indica |
A Cross of four Northern California Purples |
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Description:
This is a high-yielding purple strain with dark resinous flowers sprinkled with large shiny trichomes. The large, dense buds have a sweet, floral taste.
Medical Benefits:
Ron Burgundy, as with most purples, is a relaxing flower, effective for insomnia and serious pain relief.
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| Sweet Tooth |
100% Indica |
From the Sweet Pink Grapefruit and Blueberry pools |
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Description:
This strain is essentially a back-cross of itself: a British Columbian Sweet Tooth seed x Sweet Tooth #3. Despite its genetics, this strain is sweet, but not in a purple way. The smell resembles gingerbread with a bit of spice. The buds are rock-hard, deep green, almost oblong-shaped and crystal-covered.
Medical Benefits:
This indica is a great daytime medicine. It offers a very relaxing, calming and sometimes euphoric experience without causing sleepiness.
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