In this episode:

• Why Leafly named Hash Burger its 2025 Strain of the Year
• The genetics: Han Solo Hash Plant × Double Burger, a ~60/40 indica-leaning hybrid
• Flavor notes — garlic, onion, cheese, pepper over a skunky, ammonia-tinted base
• Potency reality check: typical 28-35% THC and why "couch-lock as a service" is the move
• The DEA's formal Schedule I → Schedule III hearing runs June 29 through July 15, 2026 in Arlington, VA
• The fight over livestream access to the rescheduling hearing
• Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger's deal to finally legalize recreational cannabis sales
• ATF preparing new guidance on cannabis consumers' Second Amendment gun rights after the SCOTUS ruling

Sources:

• Leafly: Hash Burger strain profile
• Leafly: Hash Burger named Strain of the Year 2025
• DEA: Marijuana rescheduling hearing begins June 29
• Marijuana Moment: DEA's pre-hearing testimony stance
• Marijuana Moment: Judge pressed on livestream access
• Marijuana Moment: Virginia recreational sales deal reached
• Marijuana Moment: Virginia plan heads to governor's desk
• Marijuana Moment: ATF to clarify cannabis consumer gun rights

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Daisy: —no, no, you have to let me finish, because the bag literally said "Hash Burger" on it and I thought it was a joke.
Astoria: It's not a joke. That's the actual name.
Daisy: I KNOW that now, Astoria. I did not know that on Sunday night at ten p.m. when my budtender handed me a jar and went, "this is the one."
Astoria: Okay so you walked in totally blind.
Daisy: I walked in blind, I walked out high, and I woke up Monday on the floor next to a half-eaten quesadilla.
Astoria: Of course you did.
Daisy: The quesadilla had ONE bite out of it. One. Like I committed and then my body went, nope, we sleep now.
Astoria: That's the strain working as intended, babe.
Daisy: Is it though? Is it?
Astoria: Yes. Leafly named Hash Burger Strain of the Year for 2025. Like, officially.
Daisy: Wait, that's a real award?
Astoria: No, Daisy, I made it up on the drive over.
Daisy: Okay, fair.
Astoria: It's a real thing. Strain of the Year. And they gave it to a nug that tastes like a cheeseburger.
Daisy: See, that's what I want to talk about, because that's INSANE.
Astoria: It's a little insane.
Daisy: A whole industry of like, brilliant breeders, lab coats, terpene charts, and the winner is named after the thing you order at two a.m.
Astoria: To be fair, the thing you order at two a.m. is the most important food group in this house.
Daisy: Truly our love language.
Astoria: So here's the part I think you're going to love. The flavor notes? Garlic. Onion. Cheese. Pepper.
Daisy: Stop.
Astoria: Over a skunky, kind of ammonia-tinted base.
Daisy: Ammonia? Ammonia is a flavor note now?
Astoria: According to the people who write these things, yes.
Daisy: Babe, ammonia is what I smell when I clean the litter box.
Astoria: And yet.
Daisy: And yet I'm supposed to grind it up and put it in my lungs.
Astoria: You ALREADY did. Sunday. Floor. Quesadilla.
Daisy: Right.
Astoria: It's a hybrid, by the way. Slightly indica-leaning. Like sixty-forty.
Daisy: That tracks. Because it didn't feel like a "let's clean the apartment" high.
Astoria: No, it's the parents are Han Solo Hash Plant crossed with Double Burger.
Daisy: Han Solo Hash Plant.
Astoria: Yeah.
Daisy: We've fully lost the plot as a culture.
Astoria: We did. A long time ago.
Daisy: Han Solo Hash Plant sounds like a stoner Etsy shop.
Astoria: It sounds like a candle.
Daisy: It sounds like a candle that smells like ammonia.
Astoria: Stop, you're going to make me ruin the bit.
Daisy: Okay but seriously, how strong is this thing, because I felt like I had been swaddled.
Astoria: The profile says it usually clocks in around twenty-eight to thirty-five percent THC.
Daisy: THIRTY-FIVE?
Astoria: High end of the shelf.
Daisy: Okay see, this is the thing—
Astoria: —yeah—
Daisy: —this is the thing nobody warned me about, because when I started smoking, like, in college, twenty percent was the BIG dog.
Astoria: Twenty percent was a flex.
Daisy: Twenty percent was, like, "ooh, fancy."
Astoria: And now thirty-five is just Tuesday.
Daisy: Tuesday and a quesadilla.
Astoria: Right.
Daisy: I want to push back on the THC arms race for a second, actually.
Astoria: Push back.
Daisy: Because I don't need to be unconscious. I need to be giggly.
Astoria: Counterpoint—
Daisy: —oh god—
Astoria: —you SAID you were giggly. You texted me at nine forty-seven from the floor. It said "the ceiling is being so nice to me right now."
Daisy: I don't remember sending that.
Astoria: I know you don't. That's the point.
Daisy: Okay, so maybe I was giggly and THEN unconscious.
Astoria: The order matters.
Daisy: The order absolutely matters. Giggly then sleep is a vacation. Sleep then giggly is a medical event.
Astoria: Stop.
Daisy: I'm just saying.
Astoria: Leafly's whole writeup on it leans into the heavy, sedating body buzz. Like, it is marketed as a night strain.
Daisy: See, why didn't my budtender lead with that.
Astoria: Because your budtender knows you, Daisy. He took one look at you on a Sunday at ten p.m. and...

In this episode:

• Hash Burger named Leafly's official Strain of the Year 2025, averaging around 33% THC — Leafly flags it as unsuitable for newcomers or low-tolerance users.
• The lineage: Double Burger (Donny Burger × GMO) crossed with Han Solo Hash Plant (Han Solo Burger × Black Triangle Kush) — a family reunion of stinky burgers.
• Flavor profile of garlic, onion, cheese, and pepper over a skunky, ammonia-tinted base — Leafly calls the funk impossible to conceal.
• Onset described by Leafly's reviewer as "taking off a pair of too-tight shoes after a marathon"; body melt, giggles, then sleep. 4.7/5 stars.
• Virginia: Gov. Abigail Spanberger and legislative leaders reached a deal on June 15, 2026 to legalize recreational marijuana sales via the state budget — possession has been legal since 2021.
• Federal: DOJ and DEA placed FDA-approved marijuana products and state-licensed medical marijuana into Schedule III, with a broader rescheduling hearing set to begin June 29, 2026.
• The drug-testing industry is openly lobbying against rescheduling — the pee-cup lobby fighting for its life.
• Illinois: Gov. JB Pritzker signed an omnibus bill doubling adult possession limits while restricting hemp-derived THC products.

Sources:

• Leafly: Hash Burger — Strain of the Year 2025
• Marijuana Moment: Virginia cannabis sales deal (June 15, 2026)
• DOJ: Schedule III placement for FDA-approved marijuana products
• Marijuana Moment: Drug-testing industry vs. rescheduling (June 12, 2026)
• Marijuana Moment

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Daisy: —no but that's the thing, I'm standing in the dispensary, right, and the budtender goes, "you want the Hash Burger?" and I genuinely thought he was telling me where to get lunch.
Astoria: Wait.
Daisy: I said, "is it close?" Astoria. I said "is it close" to the budtender.
Astoria: Daisy.
Daisy: He just stared at me.
Astoria: Okay so you didn't know it was a strain.
Daisy: I did NOT know it was a strain. I thought we were getting sliders.
Astoria: In your defense, it's called Hash Burger.
Daisy: Thank you!
Astoria: That is a sandwich name.
Daisy: It's a sandwich name! It sounds like something you order at 2 a.m. and immediately regret.
Astoria: Okay but here's the thing — Leafly named it Strain of the Year. Like, officially. 2025.
Daisy: Strain of the YEAR.
Astoria: Of the year.
Daisy: That's like the Oscars but for getting destroyed on your couch.
Astoria: It really is.
Daisy: And the lineage is INSANE. Hold on, let me — it's Double Burger crossed with Han Solo Hash Plant.
Astoria: Which is itself Han Solo Burger crossed with Black Triangle Kush.
Daisy: It's burgers all the way down.
Astoria: It's a family reunion of stinky burgers.
Daisy: A family reunion of stinky burgers. That's the tagline.
Astoria: Put it on the jar.
Daisy: Okay so I get it home —
Astoria: Wait, what's the THC on it?
Daisy: Around thirty-three percent.
Astoria: Daisy.
Daisy: I know.
Astoria: Daisy, Leafly literally says — and I'm quoting — "unsuitable for newcomers or low-tolerance users."
Daisy: I am not a newcomer.
Astoria: You're not low-tolerance, but you are a person who once cried at a Sbarro.
Daisy: That was unrelated.
Astoria: Sure.
Daisy: That was a sad week!
Astoria: Okay, okay.
Daisy: So I open the jar.
Astoria: Mhm.
Daisy: Astoria. My apartment immediately smelled like a White Castle parking lot at 2 a.m.
Astoria: Stop.
Daisy: I am not exaggerating. Garlic. Onion. Cheese. Pepper. And underneath it, this skunky, like... ammonia note?
Astoria: That's the official Leafly description, by the way. Garlic, onion, cheese, pepper, on a skunky base.
Daisy: It smells like a TGI Fridays appetizer sampler had a baby with a gym bag.
Daisy: And Leafly straight up says the funk is impossible to conceal.
Astoria: Impossible.
Daisy: My dog left the room.
Astoria: No.
Daisy: My dog. Looked at me. Sighed. And left.
Astoria: Your dog has standards now?
Daisy: Apparently more than me.
Daisy: And then — okay, this is the part — my landlord texts me.
Astoria: No.
Daisy: At like 9:15. He goes, "is everything okay up there."
Astoria: Wait, what did he think was happening?
Daisy: I don't know! I think he thought I was deep-frying something illegal.
Astoria: You kind of were.
Daisy: I was deep-frying my LUNGS.
Astoria: Okay so this strain — Leafly says it'll out you to your landlord, your dog, AND your Uber driver. Simultaneously.
Daisy: All three. At once. Like a funk trifecta.
Astoria: A funk trifecta.
Daisy: I had to spray everything. I sprayed the couch. I sprayed the curtains. I sprayed the dog.
Astoria: You did not spray the dog.
Daisy: Lightly! A light mist!
Astoria: Daisy.
Daisy: He was fine. He was fragrant.
Astoria: Okay. So how was the actual... effect.
Daisy: Okay so this is where I'm gonna be honest with you.
Astoria: Mhm.
Daisy: Leafly's reviewer described the onset as — and this killed me — like "taking off a pair of too-tight shoes after a marathon."
Astoria: That's so specific.
Daisy: That is EXACTLY what it felt like.
Astoria: Really.
Daisy: I sat down. My shoulders dropped about four inches. And I just went... oh.
Astoria: Oh.
Daisy: Oh, this is the good one.
Astoria: So body melt.
Daisy: Full body melt. Indica-leaning. And then this little wave of giggles, like you can feel your mood lift, and then about forty-five minutes later —
Astoria: Asleep.
Daisy: Asleep on the floor. Next to the dog. Who still smelled like Febreze.
Daisy: It's 4.7 stars on Leafl...

In this episode:

• Hash Burger named Leafly Strain of the Year 2025 — an indica-leaning hybrid testing around 33% THC on average
• The absurd lineage: Double Burger (Donny Burger × GMO) crossed with Han Solo Hash Plant (Han Solo Burger × Black Triangle Kush), descended from Chemdawg
• Bred by Respect & Mrs. Respect of California Seed Bank with Skunk House Genetics' Skunk Master Flex
• Leafly's flavor description: "a heaping helping of umami: garlic, onion, cheese, and pepper atop a skunky, ammonia-tinted base"
• Reported effects: sleepy, relaxed, euphoric body relaxation — classic couch-lock; 4.7/5 user rating
• Virginia lawmakers and Gov. Abigail Spanberger reach a deal to legalize recreational cannabis sales through the state budget, targeted for June 2026
• Virginia legalized personal possession in 2021 but never built a legal retail market — this closes the loophole
• Timing note: the deal lands the same month the DEA opens an expanded rescheduling hearing on June 29

Sources:

• Leafly: Hash Burger — Strain of the Year 2025
• Marijuana Moment: Virginia cannabis sales legalization deal reached

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Daisy: —no but that's the thing, I genuinely thought it was a sandwich.
Astoria: You thought what was a sandwich.
Daisy: Hash Burger. I saw it on the menu at the dispensary and I was like, oh cute, the budtender's moonlighting.
Astoria: Daisy. It was at the WEED store.
Daisy: I know that NOW.
Astoria: Oh my god.
Daisy: In my defense, it's called Hash Burger. Like, the entire name is two foods.
Astoria: Hash is a weed thing.
Daisy: Hash is a breakfast thing.
Astoria: Okay sure, in your house.
Daisy: In every house! Hash browns? Corned beef hash?
Astoria: Corned beef— we are not doing this.
Daisy: We are doing this. Because this is Leafly's Strain of the Year. For 2025.
Astoria: Right.
Daisy: And it is named, officially, after a burger.
Astoria: It's named after a lineage of burgers, actually. Which I think is funnier.
Daisy: Wait, what?
Astoria: So I looked this up. Hash Burger is a cross of Double Burger and Han Solo Hash Plant.
Daisy: Han Solo Hash Plant.
Astoria: And Double Burger is Donny Burger crossed with GMO.
Daisy: I'm sorry, Donny Burger?
Astoria: Donny Burger.
Daisy: That's a guy. That's somebody's uncle.
Astoria: That's a guy who runs a body shop in New Jersey.
Daisy: Donny Burger has opinions about the Mets.
Astoria: Donny Burger has a very specific way he wants his lawn cut.
Daisy: Okay so the family tree is Donny Burger, Han Solo Burger, Double Burger, and then Hash Burger.
Astoria: Correct.
Daisy: The breeders just gave up. They were tired. They ordered off a menu.
Astoria: They were like, what if the strain... was also dinner.
Daisy: And then they bred it with Black Triangle Kush at some point in there, which sounds like a band that opens for a band you actually wanted to see.
Astoria: Stop.
Daisy: I'm just saying, the Black Triangle Kush guys are LOADING in right now while everyone's at the merch table.
Astoria: Okay but here's the thing that I need you to sit with.
Daisy: Okay.
Astoria: This strain tests around thirty-three percent THC.
Daisy: Oh no.
Astoria: On average. Some cuts are higher.
Daisy: That's not a strain, that's a CONSEQUENCE.
Astoria: That's a life event.
Daisy: Thirty-three percent. For an indica-leaning hybrid named after a sandwich.
Astoria: It's not a sandwich—
Daisy: It's CALLED a burger, Astoria.
Astoria: A burger is not a sandwich, that's a whole separate episode.
Daisy: You're right. Tabled. Tabled for later.
Astoria: But yes, thirty-three percent THC, indica-leaning. The Leafly write-up basically calls it couch-lock.
Daisy: So it gets you horizontal.
Astoria: Horizontal.
Daisy: And it tastes like a burger.
Astoria: Okay so I need to read you the actual flavor description because I cannot do it justice.
Daisy: Please.
Astoria: Leafly describes it as, quote, "a heaping helping of umami: garlic, onion, cheese, and pepper atop a skunky, ammonia-tinted base."
Daisy: ...ammonia-tinted.
Astoria: Ammonia-tinted.
Daisy: They put that in print. About a product. That people pay money for.
Astoria: And it has a four-point-seven out of five user rating.
Daisy: STOP.
Astoria: People LOVE it.
Daisy: People love the ammonia burger.
Astoria: People love the funk.
Daisy: Okay so this is the most American plant we have ever talked about on this show.
Astoria: Hands down.
Daisy: It's named after a burger, it smells like garlic and cheese, it gets you horizontal, and it's the strain of the YEAR.
Astoria: It's basically a Super Bowl ad.
Daisy: It's a Fourth of July parade in a jar.
Astoria: Stop.
Daisy: Okay so I have to tell you what happened.
Astoria: Oh god.
Daisy: Because I tried it.
Astoria: You tried Hash Burger.
Daisy: I tried Hash Burger. Last Tuesday.
Astoria: On a TUESDAY?
Daisy: Yes, Astoria, on a Tuesday, like a normal woman with a normal life.
Astoria: You are not a normal woman with a normal life.
Daisy: That's fair. So I get home, I have my little setup, I'm feeling cute, I'm feeling powerful.
Astoria: Mm.
Daisy: And I take ONE hit. One. Hit.
Astoria: At thirty-three percent.
Daisy: I did not know that yet! I did not have the research brief, Astoria, I am not a journalist.
Astoria: Oh my god.
Daisy: So I take one hit, and immediately the flavor hits, and I'm like, why does my mouth taste like a sandwich.
Astoria: Burger.
Daisy: Why does my mouth taste like a BURGER.
Daisy: And not even a good burger! It tasted like a burger that was going through something.
Astoria: A burger with personal problems.
Daisy: A burger ...

In this episode:

• Hash Burger — a ~60/40 indica-leaning hybrid crossing GMO, Donny Burger, and Triangle Kush.
• Why Leafly literally lists "funk" and "umami" as flavor notes (earthy, ammonia, pepper, cheese, onion).
• Reported effects: sleepy, relaxed, euphoric — plus dry mouth, headache, and paranoia.
• Leafly crowned Hash Burger its 2025 Strain of the Year over every cookie-cross on the shelf.
• Prohibitionist groups petitioned the D.C. Circuit on June 15 to stay the Trump administration's April order moving cannabis to Schedule III; DEA's substantive hearing is set for June 29, 2026.
• Virginia's compromise after Gov. Abigail Spanberger's April veto: adult-use retail launches July 1, 2027, with a two-ounce per-transaction cap and an 8% excise tax after a two-year ramp.
• Quebec's SQDC posted C$809.5M in fiscal 2025–26 sales (+10.7% volume) and C$132.4M net income across 110 stores.
• Germany and Austria authorized Exilby (VER-01), Europe's first pharmaceutical-grade full-spectrum cannabis extract, for chronic lower back pain — commercial launch September 2026. Plus Aurora's FY2026: C$321M revenue (+11%), C$53.8M adjusted EBITDA (+32%).

Sources:

• Leafly: Hash Burger strain profile
• Leafly: Strain of the Year winners
• Business of Cannabis: rescheduling stay bid, Virginia retail deal, SQDC, Exilby, Aurora

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Daisy: —no, no, no, you don't understand, I licked the jar.
Astoria: You what.
Daisy: I LICKED the jar, Astoria.
Astoria: Why would you do that.
Daisy: Because it smelled like a hibachi grill and I missed dinner.
Astoria: Okay, hold on, back up. You're telling me you opened your new little jar of weed, and instead of, I don't know, smelling it like a normal person—
Daisy: I smelled it like a normal person FIRST.
Astoria: Okay.
Daisy: And then my brain went, "that is a steakhouse." And then my mouth went, "investigate."
Astoria: Your mouth went investigate.
Daisy: My mouth is its own guy. He doesn't check in.
Astoria: So this is the Hash Burger thing.
Daisy: This is the Hash Burger thing. This is our recommendation today, by the way, sort of. With a giant asterisk.
Astoria: A giant Daisy-shaped asterisk.
Daisy: Listen. Leafly named it Strain of the Year. Twenty twenty-five.
Astoria: Right.
Daisy: STRAIN of the YEAR.
Astoria: I heard you.
Daisy: Out of every cookie cross with a gas station name. Out of every "Rainbow Birthday Sherbet Number Nine." This one won. And it tastes like... ammonia.
Astoria: Ammonia.
Daisy: Ammonia. Onion. Cheese. Pepper. There is a real, official, Leafly-on-the-record flavor note that is just the word "funk."
Astoria: The word funk is doing a LOT of work.
Daisy: They literally call it umami. Like it's a broth.
Astoria: Okay but I have to push back a little.
Daisy: Push.
Astoria: Strain of the Year is a vibe award. It's not like the Oscars. It's not like a panel of scientists sat down—
Daisy: It should be the Oscars.
Astoria: It is not the Oscars.
Daisy: I want a red carpet. I want Hash Burger in a little tuxedo.
Astoria: Hash Burger would show up to the Oscars smelling like a hibachi grill and get kicked out.
Daisy: Honestly, fair.
Astoria: My point is, just because it won doesn't mean YOU are obligated to lick the jar.
Daisy: Astoria. Astoria. When has a label ever stopped me.
Astoria: That's true. You once ate a candle.
Daisy: It said "edible-grade soy." I made a decision.
Astoria: It said FOR DECORATION.
Daisy: That's marketing.
Astoria: Oh my God.
Daisy: Okay so back to the burger.
Astoria: Yes please.
Daisy: It's a hybrid. It's a little indica-leaning. Sixty-forty, ish. The genetics, and I'm gonna say these words like I know them—
Astoria: Go.
Daisy: GMO, Donny Burger, Triangle Kush.
Astoria: GMO is a real strain name?
Daisy: GMO is a real strain name.
Astoria: That feels like a prank.
Daisy: Everything in this industry feels like a prank. I've stopped fighting it.
Astoria: Donny Burger.
Daisy: Donny.
Astoria: Like a guy in a Hawaiian shirt who runs a marina.
Daisy: Donny's been there since the seventies. Donny knows where the bodies are buried. Donny invented this strain by accident.
Astoria: Stop.
Daisy: Anyway, effects-wise, people report sleepy, relaxed, euphoric. Which is the holy trinity if you're trying to not be conscious at nine PM on a Tuesday.
Astoria: Which is your entire personality.
Daisy: Which is my entire brand, yes.
Astoria: Adverse stuff?
Daisy: Cottonmouth, headache, and the big one — paranoia.
Astoria: Mmm.
Daisy: So if you are a person whose brain, when given the chance, will write a forty-five minute play about whether your dentist hates you—
Daisy: —this might not be your move.
Astoria: Has your dentist ever given you any indication—
Daisy: My dentist has never been anything but lovely.
Astoria: Okay.
Daisy: But have you SEEN how she looks at me when I say I floss.
Astoria: Daisy.
Daisy: She KNOWS.
Astoria: Everybody's dentist knows. That's the deal. You sign up for that when you skip flossing.
Daisy: I refuse.
Astoria: Okay so — the anecdote. You licked the jar. Then what.
Daisy: Okay. So. Context. I had been promised a, a chill little Sunday. My friend was gonna come over, we were gonna watch something, I was gonna roll one little thing.
Astoria: One little thing.
Daisy: One. Little. Thing.
Astoria: I've never seen you do one little thing in your life.
Daisy: That is a separate conversation.
Astoria: Okay.
Daisy: My friend cancels. Which, fine. I'm an adult. I have hobbies. I have... I have a window I can look out of.
Astoria: You have a window.
Daisy: I have a window. So I open the jar, and the smell hits me, and I'm ...

In this episode:

• Hash Burger is named Leafly's Strain of the Year 2025 — a 60/40 indica-leaning hybrid crossing Han Solo Hash Plant with Double Burger.
• The published flavor profile: earthy, ammonia, umami, onion, and funk (plus pepper and cheese on top).
• Potency typically tests 28-35% THC/THCa — well above average — with reported effects of sleepy, relaxed, and euphoric.
• The downside column: possible headache, dry mouth, and paranoia. Half the dose you think.
• Hash Burger took silver at the 2024 California State Fair Cannabis Awards for high THCa.
• On May 14, 2026, Opry Entertainment Group named Señorita — a RYTHM, Inc. (Nasdaq: RYM) brand — its official THC beverage partner in a multi-year deal.
• The drink: a 12-oz canned agave cocktail with 5mg hemp-derived THC per can, sold as a non-alcoholic option.
• Where you can grab one: the Grand Ole Opry, Category 10 Nashville, Ascend Federal Credit Union Amphitheater, ACL Live at The Moody Theater in Austin, and Ole Red locations in Nashville, Orlando, and Tishomingo.

Sources:

• Leafly: Hash Burger named Strain of the Year 2025
• Leafly strain profile: Hash Burger
• Señorita named official THC beverage partner of Opry Entertainment Group venues

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Daisy: —and I'm not saying it smelled like an ammonia spill, I'm saying it WAS an ammonia spill, Astoria.
Astoria: In your apartment.
Daisy: In my apartment. On a Tuesday.
Astoria: Okay back up, because you skipped the part where this is supposedly weed.
Daisy: It IS weed. That's the whole problem. It's the strain everyone's been losing their minds over.
Astoria: Wait, the burger one?
Daisy: Hash Burger. Yes. Leafly named it Strain of the Year. Like, officially. For 2025.
Astoria: And you felt obligated.
Daisy: I felt obligated.
Astoria: Obligated by who, the weed magazine?
Daisy: By the algorithm, Astoria. By society.
Astoria: Society did not tell you to buy a strain called Hash Burger.
Daisy: They kinda did though.
Astoria: Okay so what's in it. Like, what is the burger.
Daisy: It's a hybrid. Sixty-forty, indica-leaning. The parents are Han Solo Hash Plant—
Astoria: That's a real name?
Daisy: That's a real name. Crossed with Double Burger.
Astoria: Double Burger.
Daisy: I know.
Astoria: Someone in a lab coat picked that.
Daisy: Someone in a lab coat with a dream. And the THC on this thing is like twenty-eight to thirty-five percent.
Astoria: That's a wide range.
Daisy: That's a "you'll find out" range.
Astoria: Okay—
Daisy: That's a "depends on the batch and your tolerance and also God" range.
Astoria: So you went in blind.
Daisy: I went in confident. There's a difference.
Astoria: There's not.
Daisy: There's a vibe difference.
Astoria: Continue.
Daisy: So the budtender pulls out the jar. And immediately—immediately—my whole face was like, what is happening.
Astoria: Because?
Daisy: Because the official flavor profile, and I'm not making this up, is earthy, ammonia, umami, onion, and funk.
Astoria: You're—
Daisy: That's published.
Astoria: That's not a strain, that's a French dip.
Daisy: I KNOW.
Astoria: That's a sad French dip.
Daisy: Astoria, it smelled like if a gym sock fell in love with a burger. And they had a child. And the child was a vapor.
Astoria: Stop.
Daisy: I'm describing it accurately.
Astoria: And you brought it home.
Daisy: I brought it home. Because I am a professional.
Astoria: You're a podcaster.
Daisy: Same thing.
Astoria: Sure.
Daisy: So I'm in my kitchen, I open the jar—
Astoria: In the kitchen?
Daisy: Yes, because that's where my snacks are, and I had a plan.
Astoria: The plan being get high and eat the snacks.
Daisy: The plan being curate the experience.
Astoria: Okay. What happened.
Daisy: I open the jar, and my neighbor knocks on the door within ninety seconds.
Astoria: No.
Daisy: Within ninety seconds.
Astoria: What did she say.
Daisy: She said, and I quote, "Did something die in the hallway."
Astoria: Oh my god.
Daisy: I said no. She said are you sure. I said yes ma'am, that was me, I'm so sorry.
Astoria: You apologized for your weed.
Daisy: I apologized for my weed.
Astoria: To a stranger.
Daisy: To my NEIGHBOR. Whose Wi-Fi I steal.
Astoria: Daisy.
Daisy: It's a complicated relationship.
Astoria: So then what.
Daisy: So then I'm like, the smell is a feature not a bug, allegedly. I grind a little. I pack a tiny bowl. Tiny. Like a thimble.
Astoria: Smart.
Daisy: One hit.
Astoria: One.
Daisy: One hit. And I'll be honest with you—
Astoria: Yeah—
Daisy: I don't fully know what an indica-dominant hybrid is SUPPOSED to feel like at thirty-something percent. Like in theory I know. In practice—
Astoria: In practice you melt.
Daisy: I melted. Astoria, I melted into the linoleum.
Astoria: Okay.
Daisy: The effects, on paper, are sleepy, relaxed, and euphoric.
Astoria: That sounds nice.
Daisy: It IS nice. Until you remember the OTHER paper says possible headache and possible paranoia.
Astoria: Oh.
Daisy: Yeah.
Astoria: Which one did you get.
Daisy: I got the relaxed one. But I was on alert for the paranoia one, which is its own paranoia.
Astoria: Wait, you can be paranoid about getting paranoid?
Daisy: That's the entire experience of being me, Astoria.
Astoria: Okay fair.
Daisy: I sat on my floor and watched the freezer hum for forty minutes.
Astoria: That's a vibe.
Daisy: I felt CONNECTED to my appliances.
Astoria: B...