Author: David Downs
[ad_1] The Grammy Awards have Record of the Year. Time Magazine has Person of the Year. And Merriam-Webster even does Word of the Year. You know what’s way cooler? Leafly Strain of the Year, and it arrives Tuesday, Dec. 5.So let’s wet your bong with nine badass strains that ran in the front of the pack to become Leafly Strain of the Year 2023. We repeat: the strains below are NOT Leafly Strain of the Year 2023—but they performed admirably and they deserve plenty of shine of their own. Here are some all-star strains that did numbers this year—find and shop…
[ad_1] Listen up, high-tolerance flavor-chasers who need that lip-smacking goodness that only modern exotics can deliver.After another stressful sprint to Turkey Day, we all deserve some euphoric, indelible tastes to smoke and share.Leafly’s monthly fire flower roundup for November includes flavors like Connected’s Cherry Fade, The Otherside’s new Sunrise Papaya, Cipher Genetics’ Chikitaz, and Candy Fumez grown by Greendawg.As always, we tirelessly traveled up and down the Pacific coast, visiting contests, grows, pheno hunts, art openings, and stores. We scoured strain search trends and menus across the Western US—the world’s cannabis innovation epicenter—to distill this list of cheat codes to…
[ad_1] The aroma of the Fall season is wafting in the air, and we’re not talkin’ pumpkin spice. As you read this, farmers and gardeners chop down thousands of metric tons of stinky weed all across North America.Tiny seeds sown in spring have yielded heavy-hung branches of buds ripe for death by Halloween.In 2022, we reported that legal cannabis ranks sixth among US cash crops. Much of it is outdoor from California, where weed’s heartland, Humboldt County, beats out a global rhythm.As such, America needs to know the best buds for smoking this fall and winter. So here, we’ve distilled…
[ad_1] Reporting Leafly’s annual Strains of Harvest always yields a bumper crop of badass bud photos that can’t all make the cut. Here are some more gorgeous, mouthwatering colas to get you stoked on the sungrown season’s end.Read the main story and then enjoy even more Croptober goodness below.Video: Paradiso Gardens’ founder Christina DiPaciTopics: loves of the greenhouse; flavor trends; the Salinas, CA scene; the <20% THC movement; the ugly weed movement; Jilly Bean; batch sizes; pricing; and relaunching the brand.Ridgeline Farms’ crop, Humboldt County, CA(Courtesy Ridgeline Farms)NightlifeRidgeline RuntzLANTZRelatedHow to order weed delivery online with LeaflyInside the Cookies greenhouse, Humboldt…
[ad_1] Massachusetts is five years into legal weed sales, but it’s still day one for delivery services. Even more so for small cannabis businesses priced out of the first round of retail shops.Locals are still learning what’s good, and a tide of new, craft cannabis business is really raising quality in the state.The avatar for this moment is Rolling Releaf delivery service Founder Devin Alexander. Devin dashes legal weed down the same streets where he once got busted for pot. Open since February, he’s one of the state’s first legal delivery services, and his menu is fire.Watch and smoke along…
[ad_1] Crank some Motörhead with Lemmy belting out “the ace of spades” as you grind up a bowl of Motorbreath—our November Leafly HighLight strain.Let’s start with the disclaimer: Motorbreath is for people who like sitting on the back of a motorcycle doing 80 miles per hour down The Great Highway on a foggy night, dodging sand dunes. Motorbreath even smells like diesel, chemicals, and pepper, most reviewers say. Why are we signing up for this? One man’s zoom is another man’s zen—the high-THC tolerant report feeling euphoric, relaxed, and uplifted on it. Poetically, people take Motorbreath to treat anxiety, as…
[ad_1] Hash heads, flavor chasers—your love of sweet-sour candy terps and sky-high-THC have brightened the spotlight on the Rainbow Belts strain this October. This Oregon cultivar’s fumed-out blast of fuel, flowers, and citrus, and its rapid growth to national ubiquity make Rainbow Belts our Leafly HighLight for October.There’s a reason why elite hashmakers like 710 Labs keep it around, and why Ember Valley just hunted hundreds of crosses of it. Rainbow Belts sweetens up any bowl or dab rig with a vivid, neon trip down a syrupy road of lime and stone fruit. Grab your sunglasses, Rainbow Belts mixes the…
[ad_1] Today, the business website Benzinga gave us all a nice compliment—Leafly took home an award for best consumer platform as part of the annual Benzinga Cannabis Awards.Thanks, Benzinga, for calling us the “Best Cannabis Tech Platform: B2C.” We’re proud to serve the millions-strong Leafly Nation. We’re working every day on the 6,000-strain database, our 11,000-plus articles, the thousands of store menus you shop, and so much more.Yoko Miyashita, CEO of Leafly, shouted out how slick it is on Leafly in 2023. Look up a strain, shop it nearby, put it in the cart, and even get it delivered. What…
[ad_1] September is a busy month in West Coast cannabis. A flood of harvest strains are coming down, and the hunt is on for Leafly’s Strains of Harvest in October and Strain of the Year 2023 in December.Meanwhile, smokers on the West Coast stay deep in the barrel of a breaking wave of fresh cannabis flavors. We’re chasing an ever-changing vision of the latest and greatest stuffed into jars and mylars.This month in my heatseeking cannabis column, Leafly Buzz, we investigate the rise of a new Mai Tai, and catch up with the Euroz craze. We try out some of…
[ad_1] Tis the season for murder—terp murder, that is.Yes, terpenes—those aromatic molecules that make cannabis so special run an annual harvest gauntlet. More than half the terps the plant produces will never make it to the bag. Even more will be smoked without a proper cure. Growers chop plants too early, they burn terpenes in the dry room, or they rot terpenes in containers that were sealed too soon. Also, sellers sell and consumers smoke flower before it’s fully cured and in its prime.Leafly has tons of resources to get you through your first harvest season. But we also wanted…
[ad_1] It’s that time of year: the weed plants are flowering but the first storms of fall threaten to damage your garden.Southern California had the Tropical Storm Hilary coincide with an earthquake. Multiple inches of rain fell in the course of day. Winds howled. On the East Coast, hurricane season is warming up, throwing wind and water at East Coast gardens.We jumped on the phone with master of cannabis horticulture, Ed Rosenthal, for some first aid plant tips. He said a lot of plant first aid is analogous to human first aid. You have to treat and disinfect wound sites,…
[ad_1] Get ready for a high-class flight without ever having to wade through security.High-tolerance lovers of funky flavor and rocketing effects have powered the award-winning weed strain First Class Funk into the top 250 most popular in Leafly’s 6,000-strain database. This September, First Class Funk boogies on over 1,700 dispensary menus nationwide, up 70% year over year. So cue the bass solo—First Class Funk is our Leafly HighLight flower for September 2023.First Class Funk. Hybrid. (Courtesy Node Labs)This is not some candy weed for novices. First Class Funk lives up to its name with premium, pungent, diesel, and pepper smells and…