Indica
Relaxing, sedating, and calming body high.
Genetics: Goo Berry x Hells OG x Jack the Ripper
This extremely hard hitting indica is a cross of three famous strains that combines to give the consumer a heavy “hit over the head with a hammer” type of feeling accompanied by a deep couch lock, and overwhelming sleepy effect. Along with it’s heavy hitting effect this strain has a delicious berry, sweet, and earthy taste! This strain is especially good for someone dealing with chronic discomfort, eye pressure, or insomnia. This uplifting yet sleep inducing high and potent flavor make this indica an extremely reliable one. Just don’t expect to be able to keep your eyes open for long after the first couple bong rips.
Genetics: Sour Diesel x Purple Berry Kush
Deep purple bud, covered in gorgeous trichomes and bright orange hairs paired with a deliciously sweet yet pungent mixture of berry, diesel, and earthy sour make this strain not only visually stunning but also extremely appealing to the nose. This deliciously sweet, berry, and smooth smoke provides a perfect, relaxed body buzz and an uplifting, introspective head high. This strain provides an uplifting, and happy high that is great for relieving anxiety, stress, muscle spasms, mood, and chronic discomfort. One of my favorite strains to smoke after a long day, great for relaxing, unwinding, and also great for relief of discomfort after a day skiing or hiking. I love the appearance, smell, full body high, and stoney in your face head high this bud provides. This is always a great, dependable strain that I can rely on to help with discomfort, sleep and anxiety relief every single time.
Genetics: Purple Kush x Route 66 (Jolly Rancher)
This extremely skunky, pungent, sweet, and berry smelling and flavored strain has a deep purple, crystal covered, breathtaking appearance. This bud provides a deep, full body high along with a happy, uplifting yet sleepy cerebral effect. This strain is great at the end of a long day, before bed, and for relief of discomfort. This strain is also perfect for a lazy day lounging inside reading while it rains. It’s appearance, and high are what make this bud so extremely popular and one of my personal favorites for relaxation and sleep aid.
Genetics: Mendocino Purps x Skunk x Afghani
This heavy hitting indica comes from Apothecary Genetics and Barney’s Farm and is an incredibly beautiful, dense, purple bud. Sweet, slightly berry, fruity and earthy this beautiful flower is great for discomfort, anxiety, stress, relaxation and appetite stimulation. This strain also provides a really nice, carefree, giggly and euphoric effect while remaining relaxing and sedating enough to put my restless mind at ease. This strain is perfect for relaxing, unwinding and easing your body and mind after a long, busy day. In a perfect world this strain would always be in my head stash, on deck for the days when I can’t seem to eat, relax, or sleep or when my anxiety creeps up and gets the best of me.
Hybrid
Today's most common variety, an uplifting head high and relaxing body high, the best of both worlds!
Genetics: Girl Scout Cookies x Cherry Pie OR Triangle Kush x Animal Mints (genetics are disputed based on which cut is being discussed)
Originally bred by Seed Junky Genetics and made popular by the Jungle Boys this hybrid is extremely delicious, heavy hitting, and relaxing. Seed Junky Genetics gifted a cut of the strain, Triangle Mints #3, to Jungle Boys who named it Wedding Cake. It’s sweet, vanilla, earthy, and peppery flavors stem from its OG and Durban Poison lineage. This potent high provides a relaxed, creative, euphoric and happy effect while also helping treat symptoms of depression and anxiety. It is also a great appetite stimulant and calming agent. A rare find, but one I always pick up when it is available, this hybrid is great for anyone looking to treat chronic symptoms or for a lazy, creative day exploring or creating.
Genetics: Romulan x Cinderella 99
This amazingly sweet strain smells like apples, vanilla, and cherries, providing a great candy like yet citrusy taste. It not only smells out of this world but looks incredible as well, beautiful, bright, sparkly and shiny nugs that captivate you every time. This strain presents in a variety of phenotypes but the most sought after is an extremely high resinous and large yielding phenotype. This euphoric, happy, and energetic strain provides an intense, trippy, and speedy sativa like buzz without being too intense in the head. One of my favorites for working out, a day off adventuring, creating or relaxing, or a great go to when you need a little pick me up in the middle of the day as well!
Genetics: White Nightmare x Girl Scout Cookies
This sweet, berry and flowery smelling and tasting strain has deep purple, crystal covered buds, a smooth smoke and amazing balanced high. This strain provides a heavy couch lock that pairs nicely with an uplifting, and euphoric cerebral high. Overall this is one of my favorite strains for winding down at the end of the day, stimulating appetite and relaxing after work. It is also great for a day adventuring or relaxing while still staying awake and happy. This gorgeous bud has a deep purple undertone that is covered in a thick layer of trichomes and grinds up perfectly always catching the connoisseurs’ well-trained eye.
Genetics: Starfighter x Unkown Girl Scout Cookie Phenotype
Bred by Exotic Genetics this well-balanced hybrid took first in the Hybrid division at the 2014 Denver Cannabis Cup. The slightly sweet, vanilla and nutty aroma and the dense, deep purple, crystal covered nugs of this strain are unmistakable. This strain’s happy, uplifting yet relaxing effects are great for use all day long. This strain is great for management of discomfort, mood, energy and appetite. It is also a great sleep aid in higher doses. This strain’s floating body high and stimulating head high are great for relaxing, hanging out with others and a good fit of the giggles. I love this strain because it allows me to stay focused and energized but also manage my discomfort and appetite all day long.
Sativa
Stimulating, uplifting and creative head high
Genetics: Unknown (Lemon OG phenotype, most likely)
This energizing, motivating, and uplifting strain has a delicious, sweet citrus, fruity, yet tangy flavor similar to a lemon head candy. This strain is usually pretty high testing and is great for stimulating appetite or for a creative boost. It tends to be very giggly, energizing, and euphoric while also great for focusing. Many suffering from asthma, depression, loss of appetite, headaches, muscle discomfort, and stress have found relief from their symptoms while smoking this delicious bud. This strain is one of my personal favorites because of its intense flavor, ability to pull me out of a funk, and stimulate appetite. I also love the fit of the giggles that always seems to accompany it, tehe.
Genetics: Chemdawg 4 x Tres Dawg
This gorgeous bud is covered in sparkling, shining trichomes and gives off an earthy, diesel, and pungent smell with notes of pine that grabs your attention every time. Providing happy, relaxed, uplifted, and energetic effects this strain is great for fighting stress, anxiety, and fatigue. This strain is perfect as a wake and bake or as an uplifting, yet stoney, creative head high. Great for hiking, skiing, adventuring and as creative pick me up! This strain is also wonderful because it is slightly less anxiety inducing than it’s parent Chemdawg and is a good alternative when anxiety and stress levels are high and a boost of euphoric energy is needed!
Genetics: Super Silver Haze x Lemon Skunk
Originally grown in Washington by Olympia Mike and A Green Cure this strain took first place in the Medical Cannabis Cup in Seattle. The aroma of this strain is extremely citrus, lemon, and skunky. The taste is just like a lemon head candy, sweet and tart. This uplifting, euphoric, energizing, and giggle inducing strain is perfect for anyone trying to manage stress, headaches, fatigue or just looking for an uplifting, and creative boost. This is one of my go-to strains when I need to giggle and be productive but don’t want to worry about anxiety or paranoia.
Genetics: Depending on who you talk to the genetics of this legendary sativa vary but the most commonly agreed upon is a Chemdawg and Skunk cross, of some variation…
This strain has an unmistakable, pungent diesel, and earthy odor that is hard to miss. An extremely well known and popular sativa praised around the world for it’s stimulating, uplifting, relaxing and dreamy cerebral effects. This strain is great for discomfort, and stress relief and is also a great mood enhancer and stabilizer. In stronger or bigger doses this strain is also known to have an extremely relaxing and sedating effect. This strain is definitely one that every sativa lover should try at least once. This is one of my favorite sativas because it is uplifting and energizing, but doesn’t tend to play to my anxiety or paranoia too much. It is also a great strain to smoke when trying to do something creative, adventuring outside, or just sitting in the sunshine on a lazy afternoon.
CBD
Less psycho-activity, more relief, what more do you need?
Genetics: LA Confidential x X18 Pure Pakistani
This high CBD, 99% indica strain is named after a region near the Afghanistan/Pakistan border and has a very pungent, earthy, herbal and slightly spicy aroma. This happy, giggly, and relaxing strain is perfect for relief of discomfort and insomnia, providing total body relaxation. This strain is also great for relief of stress and anxiety. Typically this strain has a higher level of CBD, but still has a decent amount of THC so there will still be some psychoactive effect along with relaxation. This is one of my favorite strains for unwinding after a long, painful day and as a sleep aid.