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Searching for the origin of Blue Dream marijuana strain

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It’s one day post-Memorial Day 2021, so “hot vax Summer” has officially begun, and I’m smoking Blue Dream in the city that launched the globally renowned cultivar in 2003. Today the strain is considered ubiquitous, well-liked, and basic. Blue Dream has always been a strain that’s rewarded growers as much as smokers.

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Beyond Blue Dream: A Haze strain family genealogy

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Leafly honors the 50th anniversary of “4:20” (aka “420” or 4/20) this April with a celebration of legendary strain families. This legendary, second-generation strain represents the best of Holland and California, the two initial powerhouses responsible for creating new types of cannabis. We have a whole history of them.”.

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What I learned sitting courtside at the NBA Finals of weed

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The Emerald Cup began in 2003 as an underground locals-only competition among outdoor organic growers in California’s famed Emerald Triangle, which is comprised of the state’s three biggest counties for outdoor cannabis cultivation—Humboldt, Trinity and Mendocino. Best cannabis strains of summer 2021. The Emerald Cup origin story.

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How cannabis vaporizers are continuing to evolve

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In Histories , Greek writer Herodotus recounted the details of a ritual the ancient Scythians of Central Asia performed, who lived around 600 BCE – 400 CE: Hemp seeds and plants were put on red-hot stones and people engulfed themselves in the resulting vapor. . The history of vaporizers. The rest is still history in the making.

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Just desserts: The Cookies and Cakes family genealogy

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Leafly honors the 50th anniversary of “4:20” (aka “420” or 4/20) this April with a celebration of legendary strain families. Easy: the Cookies strain of cannabis transcends mere genetics—it’s a lifestyle. The Cookies story spans the recent histories of cannabis, weed law reform, San Francisco, and hip-hop. I’ve had the F1.

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Smokeable Hemp Sparks A Firestorm

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Smoking is common to most cultures and across large swathes of history. While some marijuana strains offer meaningful quantities of cannabinoids other than THC, most do not. To most newcomers, smoking hemp seems pointless. As it turns out, there are a number of reasons why people smoke hemp. Let me explain.

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World Wide Weed: Risks and Best Practices for Advertising State Legal Cannabis on the Internet

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Users can search for and review cannabis dispensaries, brands, strains, delivery services, and a host of other cannabis or cannabis-related products and services in states in which cannabis has been legalized for medical or recreational use. GTE Corp. , 3d 655, 659 (7th Cir. 7 In 2011, Laura Duffy, then U.S. 31 See Lisa N.