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Daisy and Astoria break down the Gary Payton hybrid (Snowman x The Y, ~22% THC, caryophyllene-forward) then dig into the American Trucking Associations' safety letter, the DOJ's "pocketbook interests" brief, Georgia's medical expansion, Delaware's veto override, and NIST's cannabis scale rules.
Daisy and Astoria spotlight the Gary Payton hybrid — a Cookies x Powerzzzup Genetics cross of Snowman and The Y — then race through two weeks of cannabis-culture news, from trucker safety letters to the DOJ calling out "pocketbook interests" in the rescheduling fight.
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Daisy: —and I'm just saying, if you name a strain after Gary Payton, THE GLOVE, the guy who talked so much smack he made Michael Jordan look zen... you'd expect it to make you, like, aggressive.
Astoria: You'd expect to hit it once and start trash-talking your own furniture.
Daisy: Right?? Like I'd take one puff and go, "your legs are CROOKED, coffee table. Everybody knows it."
Astoria: But it doesn't do that.
Daisy: Astoria. It does NOT do that. I looked it up on Leafly, okay, and the top user-reported effect is... giggly.
Astoria: Giggly.
Daisy: GIGGLY. Then relaxed. Then euphoric. The Glove strain makes you giggle.
Astoria: So the universe does have a sense of humor.
Daisy: The universe is a comedy writer and she is UNDERPAID.
Astoria: Okay wait, hold on— is it actually good though, or is this just a bit?
Daisy: It's actually good! It's a hybrid, it's Snowman crossed with something called The Y—
Astoria: The Y.
Daisy: The Y! I don't know what The Y is, I'm not gonna pretend—
Astoria: Wow, humility, on this show.
Daisy: Log it. Date it. Frame it. But it's a Cookies collab with Powerzzzup Genetics, which sounds like a dude who sells pre-workout out of a Sprinter van—
Daisy: —and Leafly literally put it on their hot strains list for 2026. Like officially. It's been quietly cooking since 2019, won some Cannabis Cups in the early twenties, and now it's having a moment.
Astoria: A late bloomer strain.
Daisy: A late bloomer. Which is very Gary Payton, actually, because that man played until he was like forty—
Astoria: Sure.
Daisy: —and I respect the metaphor even though I did not intend it.
Astoria: Okay, potency. Because I feel like every time you recommend something you leave out the part where it flattens me.
Daisy: That was ONE time.
Astoria: That was every time.
Daisy: Okay it's around twenty-two percent THC, about one percent CBD, per Leafly's profile—
Astoria: Twenty-two.
Daisy: Twenty-two. Which, listen. This isn't your grandma's ditch weed.
Astoria: My grandma's ditch weed was probably three percent and a prayer.
Daisy: Three percent and a prayer! That's the name of her memoir.
Astoria: She'd smoke a whole joint and go, "I feel a LITTLE warm."
Daisy: "A little warm and I can hear the fridge."
Astoria: Okay so twenty-two, giggly, hybrid. What does it actually smell like, because you did the thing.
Daisy: I did the thing.
Astoria: She did the thing.
Daisy: Okay so it's caryophyllene-forward—
Astoria: In English.
Daisy: In ENGLISH, caryophyllene is the terpene you also find in black pepper and cloves.
Astoria: So it smells like grandma's spice rack.
Daisy: It smells like grandma's spice rack but make it federal.
Astoria: Make it federal.
Daisy: Which brings me, weirdly, to a story—
Astoria: Oh no.
Daisy: —about the time I tried to cook with it. Not IT it, just, you know. A little.
Astoria: Daisy.
Daisy: I was gonna do a pepper crust on a steak.
Astoria: Uh huh.
Daisy: And I thought, you know what would rhyme with this vibe? Because of the caryophyllene? A tiny little infusion in the butter.
Astoria: A tiny little infusion.
Daisy: A TINY.
Astoria: How tiny.
Daisy: Not tiny.
Daisy: I did not do the math. I never do the math. Math is for people who plan dinners, and I am a person who ATTENDS dinners.
Astoria: This is the most self-aware you've ever been.
Daisy: Thank you. So I put this steak in front of my roommate, right, and she takes one bite, and she goes, "this is really good, this pepper is really warm—"
Astoria: Oh no.
Daisy: And I go, "yeah, it's the caryophyllene."
Astoria: You did NOT say caryophyllene at your own dinner table.
Daisy: I said caryophyllene at my own dinner table like a Bond villain—
Daisy: —and she just very slowly put her fork down.
Astoria: She knew.
Daisy: She KNEW. And then twenty minutes later she was on the couch describing the ceiling fan as, quote, "a really honest guy."
Astoria: A really honest guy.
Daisy: A really honest guy!
Astoria: Okay. Okay. But here's where I push back.
Daisy: Push.
Astoria: You cannot recommend Gary Payton as your pick this week AND tell a story about dosing your roommate. Those are two different segments, Daisy.
Daisy: They're the same segment! It's called consequences!
Astoria: They're not the same segment. The rec is: try it, low dose, giggly hybrid, don't be a menace. That's the rec.
Daisy: Fine. Fine. That IS the rec. Low dose, hybrid, if you like a peppery clove-y thing that makes you laugh at your ceiling fan, Gary Payton, go find it at a real dispensary.
Astoria: Not in your roommate's butter.
Daisy: Not in your roommate's butter.
Astoria: Good. Okay.
Daisy: Speaking of consequences—
Astoria: Oh, a segue.
Daisy: A SEGUE, Astoria, a real one. The truckers.
Astoria: The truckers.
Daisy: Okay so the American Trucking Associations, plus a bunch of transportation and safety groups, wrote a letter to the feds raising, quote, "serious safety concerns" about the rescheduling push.
Astoria: Huh.
Daisy: They are worried about highway hijinks.
Astoria: Don't call it that in the letter.
Daisy: I bet somebody almost did. I bet there's a draft.
Astoria: Okay but honestly, that's not a crazy concern. Impairment on the road is a real thing.
Daisy: It's not a crazy concern! I'm not gonna clown the truckers. Truckers are correct about most things.
Astoria: Truckers know.
Daisy: Truckers KNOW. But it's also very funny that the reaction to a federal reclassification is a formal letter from the guys who drive eighteen-wheelers being like, "have you considered."
Astoria: "Have you considered."
Daisy: "Have you considered the roads."
Astoria: Meanwhile, on the other side—
Daisy: On the OTHER side, the DOJ, our Department of Justice—
Astoria: I know what the DOJ is, Daisy.
Daisy: I'm setting a SCENE— the DOJ filed a brief basically dunking on a drug-testing-industry group and a pharma company that were trying to pause the rescheduling.
Astoria: Wait, they dunked?
Daisy: They DUNKED. The DOJ said, and I'm paraphrasing but barely, that these groups have, quote, "pocketbook interests served by keeping all marijuana in schedule one."
Astoria: They said pocketbook.
Daisy: They said pocketbook! In a federal filing!
Astoria: That's the government saying "you're just mad you'll lose money."
Daisy: That's exactly what that is. That's a subtweet with a case number.
Astoria: A subtweet with a case number.
Daisy: I love it. I don't love a lot of federal filings, I have not read many, but this one, chef's kiss.
Astoria: Okay what else did you find in the... the weeds.
Daisy: In the weeds. Georgia expanded its medical program.
Astoria: Oh good for Georgia.
Daisy: A new law took effect adding qualifying conditions, letting patients vape flower, and adjusting the THC potency limits.
Astoria: So Georgia is inching in.
Daisy: Georgia is inching. Georgia is doing the pool-toe. You know when you get to a pool—
Astoria: I know the pool-toe.
Daisy: —and you go and then you leave? That's Georgia.
Astoria: Meanwhile Delaware—
Daisy: Meanwhile Delaware overrode their governor's veto—
Astoria: Overrode?
Daisy: Overrode! Governor Matt Meyer vetoed a bill that would block counties from doing super restrictive zoning on cannabis businesses, and the lawmakers were like, "cool, no." And overrode him.
Astoria: So your local NIMBY got dunked on.
Daisy: Your local NIMBY got publicly, legislatively dunked on. In Delaware. Which I did not have on my 2026 bingo card.
Astoria: Nobody has anything on their Delaware bingo card.
Daisy: Delaware is the free space.
Astoria: Delaware IS the free space.
Daisy: And then Wyoming—
Astoria: Oh boy.
Daisy: Wyoming's AG, Keith Kautz, is blocking a state-level rescheduling that would have auto-triggered from the federal one.
Astoria: Wait, so the state was gonna just... follow along, and he's stopping it?
Daisy: He's stopping it. He is standing in the doorway.
Astoria: Wyoming has more cows than people.
Daisy: WYOMING HAS MORE COWS THAN PEOPLE—
Daisy: —and they still can't chill!
Astoria: The cows are chill!
Daisy: The cows are FINE! Ask a cow!
Astoria: Okay wait, my favorite one you sent me though—
Daisy: Say it.
Astoria: NIST.
Daisy: NIST.
Astoria: The standards agency. The people who define what a kilogram is.
Daisy: The kilogram people!
Astoria: They published a report to help states set rules for the SCALES.
Daisy: The scales! The scales you weigh weed on!
Astoria: There is now federal weights-and-measures science for weed.
Daisy: There is a document. There is a PDF.
Astoria: There is a PDF at the standards agency about weed scales.
Daisy: That's the nerdiest cannabis story of the month and I am obsessed.
Astoria: Okay but honestly? Push back number two—
Daisy: Uh oh.
Astoria: I actually love that. Because the whole industry has been Wild West on measurements, and if you're a patient and you're paying by the gram, you want the gram to be a gram.
Daisy: You're right. You're right, that's a good point, I was gonna make it a bit and you made it real.
Astoria: I made it real.
Daisy: You're the straight woman and I respect you.
Astoria: I feel so seen.
Daisy: Which brings us to the vibe check.
Astoria: The vibe check.
Daisy: There was a recent poll, and MOST cannabis consumers don't actually think full rescheduling is gonna finish this year.
Astoria: Yeah, that tracks.
Daisy: The industry is vibing in purgatory.
Astoria: Vibing in purgatory.
Daisy: Which, honestly, is where a lot of us live emotionally, so.
Astoria: That's the show, that's the whole show right there.
Daisy: That's the pod.
Astoria: Okay hot take time.
Daisy: HOT take. Pop culture. Ready?
Astoria: Go.
Daisy: I am so tired of every celebrity having a beverage brand.
Astoria: Okay.
Daisy: Every actor, every athlete, every person who has ever been on a red carpet has a tequila, a hard seltzer, a mezcal, a non-alc thing, a coffee, a protein water—
Astoria: A hydration stick.
Daisy: A HYDRATION STICK. Sir, you were in a superhero movie in 2014. Why do you have an electrolyte.
Astoria: Because it's a low-effort business, honestly.
Daisy: It's SO low effort! You slap a face on a bottle—
Astoria: Okay but push back—
Daisy: Push.
Astoria: —some of them are actually good.
Daisy: NAME ONE.
Astoria: I'm not gonna, because you'll clown me.
Daisy: SEE.
Astoria: I will admit, the category is oversaturated.
Daisy: It's oversaturated! It's a swamp!
Astoria: But at least it's not another candle line.
Daisy: At least it's not another candle. That's the bar. The bar is: is it a candle. If no, ship it.
Astoria: If no, ship it.
Daisy: Okay okay okay. Landing the plane. Takeaway.
Astoria: Takeaway.
Daisy: If you're gonna try one thing this week off this episode, go find Gary Payton at a real dispensary, start LOW—
Astoria: Low.
Daisy: —because twenty-two percent is not your grandma's three-percent-and-a-prayer, and enjoy the giggly, peppery, clove-y, ceiling-fan-is-an-honest-guy experience.
Astoria: Do NOT put it in your roommate's butter.
Daisy: Do not put it in your roommate's butter. That's the two-part takeaway.
Astoria: That's the show.
Daisy: That's the show! If you liked this, or if you have your OWN roommate-butter story, which, please, I need to not be alone—
Daisy: —come find us and everything else we're into at mncannabishub.com.
Astoria: mncannabishub.com.
Daisy: Stay giggly.
Astoria: Stay hydrated.
Daisy: Not from a celebrity.
Astoria: Not from a celebrity. Bye.
Daisy: Bye!
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