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What the desk is actually smoking.
Hands-on strain, product, dispensary, and podcast features from the Crushed desk, fact-checked against grower, retailer, and dispensary listings.
CAM · Flower
Jack Herer
Jack Herer won a Cannabis Cup the year it was released and got inducted into the Counterculture Hall of Fame not long after. CAM's Private Reserve tier grows the Sensi Seeds original indoors — and current batches are testing at 29% THC.
Haze × (Northern Lights #5 × Skunk #1) — bred by Sensi Seeds, released 1994, named for cannabis activist Jack Herer
CAM · Flower
Bubba's Girl
Bubba Kush and Girl Scout Cookies shouldn't work this well together, but CAM's Private Reserve tier turns that cross into a 3.5g jar that's tested as high as 33% THC.
Pre-98 Bubba Kush × Girl Scout Cookies (CAM's stated cross; not independently verified by a named breeder)
BLEM · Flower
Unruly OG
BLEM's Unruly OG outsells everything else the brand makes, including its own 10-gram bag — and the strain's actual parentage is still officially a rumor.
Undocumented — Leafly notes a rumored tie to Billy Kimber OG, a strain BLEM's own cultivation team at Cali Lotus has grown since the 2000s, but no breeder has confirmed a parent cross
BLEM · Flower
Tangie Ting
You'll see it listed as Trangie Ting on half the menus in California. The real name is Tangie Ting — BLEM's citrus sativa built off the actual Tangie lineage, with a second parent the brand has never publicly named.
Tangie — the second parent is undocumented; BLEM's own product page lists only the Tangie side of the cross
Detroit, MI · Ann Arbor, MI · Grand Rapids, MI · Traverse City, MI
House of Dank
Founder Prince Yousif built a reputation on 8 Mile before cannabis was even legal in Michigan, and did federal time for it. A decade later, House of Dank is the state's only major cannabis company still under its original ownership.
2015
Green Dawg Cultivators · Flower
Zoey
Sacramento craft grower Green Dawg Cultivators pairs Zkittlez with Oishii's Flavor Pack 7 × Moonbow 112 in Zoey, a candy-and-cream hybrid built to keep a session going rather than end it.
Zkittlez × Oishii (Flavor Pack 7 × Moonbow 112)
Blackleaf & PackGods
First Smoke of the Day
Since 2021, hosts Blackleaf and PackGods have turned a weekly interview show into one of the cannabis industry's most-cited podcasts — 228 episodes deep and still throwing its own IRL meetups.
Since 2021
Claybourne · Flower
Hash Burger
Claybourne Co. is best known for elaborate infused pre-rolls, but its Small Buds jar sells Hash Burger the plain way: straight indoor flower, hand-trimmed, no markup for packaging.
Han Solo Hash Plant × Double Burger
San Francisco, CA · Oakland, CA
Urbana
Owner Marty Higgins opened his first shop on Geary Boulevard under a name he had to give up. A decade later, Urbana spans Geary, the Mission, and Uptown Oakland — and the lounges are the point.
2016 (as Harvest); rebranded Urbana in 2020