Author: David Downs

[ad_1] You can’t spell “2024” without “420,” Leafly Nation. The international stoner holiday of April 20 (aka 4/20) stems from the daily toke time of 4:20 p.m. started in California in the ‘70s. Today, we have 25 legalization states and more than 40 medical ones. Re-scheduling percolates in Washington D.C. The Mayor of San Francisco has even blessed “SF Weed Week”—stating: “Don’t give me no bammer weed. We don’t smoke that sh*t in the SFC.” We, too, subscribe to the No Bammer movement, so we tasked our experts with rounding up the hottest flowers for 4/20 across the land. Featuring dozens of…

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[ad_1] Spring has sprung and with it fresh veggies in the garden. High season has also kicked in for cannabis gardeners: clone and seed sellers are doing brisk business as growers big and small ramp up for the 2024 full-sun outdoor run.You can grow a pound of AAA-grade buds off a single outdoor plant if you get started today. Here’s how from Leafly’s weed grower’s guide to 2024.Where to startStart with Leafly’s first-ever Weed Gardener’s Almanac for 2024. Learn the right thing to do at the right time to stay synced with the seasons and maximize your investment in seeds,…

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[ad_1] America’s tens of millions of stoners need not endure unequal access to their life-saving medicine and safer alternative to alcohol. They can vote with their feet for some fine cannabis cities, or stay to fix the terrible ones. Right now, all across the US, Americans enjoy widely different levels of weed freedom.Real Estate Witch’s website computed the top 50 best weed cities in America, and the differences speak volumes. Denver, CO ranks No. 1. Louisville, KY ranks dead last. Below, Leafly presents some highlights and picks from each spot.Jump to a cityNo. 1 Denver, CONo. 2 Portland, ORNo. 3…

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[ad_1] If you smoke as good as Californians, rest assured, you smoke as good as the best in the world. That’s the takeaway from the marijuana flower scene in Barcelona this March during the massive, week-long Spannabis festival.Our monthly West Coast fire flower round-up Leafly Buzz jetted over to the decriminalized Catalan city for a week of elite hash contests, the visits to the best lounges recommended, and a 10,000-person gathering from every continent. Sure we saw European specialties like Amnesia Haze, and even a Big Buddha Cheese. But Z strains dominated award shows. Zoap, and Permanent Marker abounded. The New…

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[ad_1] Your moment has come, aspiring pot gardeners. Each day grows longer, but your chances of growing a decent pound of outdoor weed by Halloween diminish by the hour.Many of the real farmers got started around Valentine’s Day, popping seeds indoors to hunt for the strong and vigorous—before taking them outside by Mother’s Day.Planting dates are easy to forget—so enter an ancient solution: the Farmer’s Almanac. A device to track the right time to plant crops goes back at least to 2500 BC and the Greek parapegma.Lucky for you, just bookmark this post, or save it, or print it out,…

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[ad_1] The global cannabis conversation reached a new frenzy last weekend with the 10,000-person Spannabis festival in Barcelona, Spain.Top-ranked packs like Dying Breed Seeds OZ Kush, Peach Ringz, and Z 3.0 fetched 500 euros for 12 seeds. We’re busy adding dozens of new cultivars to the database. Watch along for more Day 1 and Day 2 highlights straight from the event and recorded live above Las Ramblas.More industry tips for decisionmakersCultivar news for store buyersZ strains dominated flower and hash competitions. Wizard Trees’ booth was so packed you couldn’t get near it. RS-11 is hot. Zoap is hot. Leafly’s Strains…

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[ad_1] March has arrived, and with it your best chance of growing a monster outdoor plant—if you start now inside. As such, we conclude our seasonal 2024 guide to the hottest cultivars and breeders with a survey of award-winning strains bred for making excellent hash. Not all strains are created equal for extraction, farmers and hashmakers have learned. Some taste great as flowers, but flat as hash. Others make good oil for pens, but poor rosin. Some are true “dumpers”—releasing big, fat trichome heads on long, breakable stalks; all the easier for collecting into the ultimate dab. A great hash hit…

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[ad_1] Getting high and sci-fi go together like a Jedi and her lightsaber. With rave reviews rolling in for Denis Villeneuve’s epic cinematic masterpiece “Dune 2,” we thought we’d join the legion of fans the only way we know how: With some sweet, sweet weed pairings for your trip to the total desert planet of Arrakis.Leafly presents a baker’s dozen strains that pair great with “Dune 2”—because of their popularity, effects, name, history, film tie-in, and more.(By Matt Jackson)Blue Dream(David Downs/Leafly)If you want eyes that sparkle blue from huffing spice, start with America’s best-selling strain, Blue Dream. It’s the perfect, balanced…

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[ad_1] 99 points out of 100Price: $55/eighthReady to stay winning? Leafly Strain of the Year 2023 Permanent Marker combines with a SOTY runner-up, Cap Junky, in this stellar flower grown by Sacramento’s Seven Leaves. It’s nearly impossible to improve on either strain, but Seven Leaves does just that. It’s Permanent Marker with more fuel. Or it’s more appetizing Cap Junky with a little purple. Either way, the smell hits a 10 on the “marker fumes meets gasoline” scale, and that perfection carries through to the taste. The high doesn’t get any higher, and the view from the top doesn’t get…

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[ad_1] 95 points out of 100Price: $55/eighthBatch size: 10 lbsWood Wide Farms in Mendocino, CA grows small, 10-pound batches of the best from America’s cannabis heartland for the adult-use market in the Bay Area and beyond. This winter, they’ve turned out a superb run of a strain just called “#23.” It’s bred by a 3rd-generation Mendocino County, CA grower 707caseyberns, co-founder of Sticky Genes—a cross of (Lava Cake x Dosidos) x Pluto. Wood Wide’s run of #23 gives me a lot of Marshmallow OG vibes, and I love it. The OG and dessert parentage really shows here. It’s green bud—dense,…

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[ad_1] 90 points out of 100Cookies, Zoap, Seattle Soda, and Z work all combine in Umami Seeds‘ Bath House, which we obtained from high-end San Francisco indoor growers Sense Cannabis. Bath House had this nutmeggy, Ovaltine front note that compounds into a spike of Chem, and it smokes strong like a Cap Junky with Chem and Mints. Bath House is made from Bath Water x Zoda—two strains we had the pleasure of knowing zilch about. Bath Water is Zoap x Zonuts. Zoda is a mix of (Z x Acai Gelato) x Seattle Soda. Umami Seeds has already claimed 29 trophies…

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