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Daisy and Astoria break down Hash Burger — Leafly's 2025 Strain of the Year at ~33% THC with garlic-onion-cheese funk — plus Virginia's recreational cannabis sales deal, the federal Schedule III move, and Illinois doubling possession limits.
Daisy and Astoria taste-test Leafly's 2025 Strain of the Year — Hash Burger — and unpack the biggest cannabis policy shifts of June 2026, from Virginia's retail deal to the federal Schedule III move.
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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 Leafly for a reason.
Astoria: 4.7. That's not nothing.
Daisy: That's basically a perfect Yelp rating but for getting horizontal.
Daisy: But here's my actual hot take.
Astoria: Go.
Daisy: Stoner palate has gone savory.
Astoria: Okay, say more.
Daisy: For YEARS — years, Astoria — every strain was, like, "notes of blueberry muffin" and "tropical mango cream."
Astoria: Right, dessert strains.
Daisy: Dessert strains! Everything was a smoothie. Everything was a cupcake.
Astoria: Wedding Cake. Ice Cream Cake. Birthday Cake.
Daisy: It was a Cheesecake Factory menu.
Daisy: And now? Strain of the year tastes like a cheeseburger.
Astoria: Umami terps are having a moment.
Daisy: Umami terps! The cannabis world voted, collectively, "you know what sounds great? Onions."
Astoria: When you put it like that.
Daisy: That's a cultural shift!
Astoria: Okay but counterpoint.
Daisy: Go.
Astoria: I think people have always loved funk. They were just embarrassed to admit it.
Daisy: Hm.
Astoria: Like the OG Kush heads have been quietly enjoying gasoline-flavored weed this whole time.
Daisy: That's true.
Astoria: We just finally let the garlic people out of the closet.
Daisy: The garlic people.
Astoria: There's dozens of us.
Daisy: Okay you might be right.
Astoria: I'm usually right.
Daisy: Sure.
Astoria: Speaking of things that are stinky and overdue —
Daisy: Oh nice segue.
Astoria: Thank you. Virginia.
Daisy: VIRGINIA.
Astoria: Finally cracked the recreational sales nut.
Daisy: Wait, walk me through this, because I genuinely do not understand Virginia's whole deal.
Astoria: Okay so — possession has been legal there since 2021.
Daisy: Right.
Astoria: But there was no legal store to BUY it from.
Daisy: That's so funny.
Astoria: It's been like that for years.
Daisy: So you could have it, you just couldn't... acquire it.
Astoria: Legally. Yes.
Daisy: That's an Escher staircase.
Astoria: It really is.
Daisy: How does that even work.
Astoria: It doesn't, that's the point. And now Governor Spanberger and the legislature announced a deal — June 15th — to legalize recreational sales through the state budget.
Daisy: Through the budget. Sneaky.
Astoria: That's how it gets done.
Daisy: Virginia is for lovers... finally also for buyers.
Astoria: Daisy.
Daisy: That's good!
Astoria: That's a billboard.
Daisy: PUT IT ON A BILLBOARD.
Daisy: Okay but the bigger one.
Astoria: The big one.
Daisy: Schedule Three.
Astoria: Schedule Three.
Daisy: This is the thing my group chat will not shut up about.
Astoria: Yeah, DOJ and DEA earlier this month — they issued an order placing FDA-approved marijuana products and state-licensed medical marijuana products into Schedule Three.
Daisy: Okay I'm gonna admit something.
Astoria: Mhm.
Daisy: I do not fully know what Schedule Three means.
Astoria: Okay.
Daisy: Like I know it's better than Schedule One.
Astoria: It's a lower restriction tier. Schedule One is the "no accepted medical use" bucket — heroin's there. LSD.
Daisy: Right.
Astoria: Schedule Three is, like, ketamine. Tylenol with codeine. Stuff that's recognized as medicine but still controlled.
Daisy: So weed gets to sit at the medicine table.
Astoria: For the federally approved products, yes.
Daisy: Okay that's huge.
Astoria: It's huge. And then there's a broader rescheduling hearing — administrative hearing at the DEA — set to start June 29th.
Daisy: That's like a week from now.
Astoria: Eight days.
Daisy: Astoria that's so soon.
Astoria: I know.
Daisy: Okay but here is my favorite detail. Tell me about the pee-cup lobby.
Astoria: Okay so.
Daisy: Tell the people.
Astoria: The drug-testing industry is openly lobbying against rescheduling.
Daisy: Openly.
Astoria: Marijuana Moment had this whole writeup. The companies that sell drug tests are panicking.
Daisy: Because if weed gets rescheduled —
Astoria: Fewer companies test for it.
Daisy: Fewer pee cups.
Astoria: Fewer pee cups.
Daisy: This is the funniest lobby in America.
Astoria: It's a whole industry built on you having to prove you didn't get high two weeks ago.
Daisy: And now they're like "please. Please keep being weird about this."
Astoria: "Think of the cups."
Daisy: THINK OF THE CUPS.
Daisy: I want to see their lobbyist. I want to see this person walk into a senator's office and go, "have you considered... the urine."
Astoria: Stop.
Daisy: "Senator. Senator please. The urine."
Astoria: Okay, okay.
Daisy: I'm sorry, that's just — that's the funniest position to hold.
Astoria: It's a real position someone holds though.
Daisy: Someone is paid six figures to defend pee cups.
Astoria: Probably more than six.
Daisy: God bless America.
Astoria: Oh, and Illinois.
Daisy: What's Illinois doing.
Astoria: Pritzker signed a cannabis omnibus bill. Doubles the amount of weed adults can legally possess.
Daisy: Doubles?
Astoria: Doubles.
Daisy: That's a Costco move.
Astoria: It's a Costco move.
Daisy: Buy in bulk, Illinois.
Astoria: But — and this is the interesting part — same bill restricts hemp THC products. Like the Delta-8 stuff.
Daisy: Oh interesting.
Astoria: So they're tightening one lane and widening the other.
Daisy: The gas station Delta-8 era is ending.
Astoria: Squeezed from both ends.
Daisy: RIP to the little gummies next to the lottery tickets.
Astoria: You'll be missed.
Daisy: You will not be missed.
Astoria: You won't.
Daisy: Those gummies tasted like a candle.
Astoria: They did.
Daisy: Okay — pop culture hot take.
Astoria: Go.
Daisy: This is connected, I promise.
Astoria: Okay.
Daisy: Everything is going savory.
Astoria: Everything?
Daisy: Everything! The weed is savory. Restaurants are doing umami desserts. People are putting fish sauce in cocktails.
Astoria: People are putting fish sauce in cocktails?
Daisy: Astoria I had a martini last month that tasted like a Caesar salad.
Astoria: Was that intentional?
Daisy: It was eighteen dollars so I have to say yes.
Daisy: We are in the post-sweet era. The girlies want SALT.
Astoria: Counterpoint.
Daisy: Go.
Astoria: The sweet stuff didn't go anywhere. You just got older and your palate changed.
Daisy: don't do this to me.
Astoria: You used to drink Smirnoff Ice.
Daisy: We don't talk about that.
Astoria: You're projecting your aging palate onto the entire culture.
Daisy: You might be right.
Astoria: I'm usually right.
Daisy: Stop saying that.
Daisy: Okay. Takeaway.
Astoria: Hit me.
Daisy: If you're gonna try Hash Burger —
Astoria: Yeah.
Daisy: — and Leafly named it the strain of the year for a reason —
Astoria: 4.7 stars.
Daisy: — start LOW. Thirty-three percent THC is not a joke. Leafly literally flagged it for low-tolerance users to avoid.
Astoria: A tiny amount.
Daisy: A crumb. A speck. A whisper of Hash Burger.
Astoria: A whisper.
Daisy: And open a window. Tell your landlord in advance. Apologize to your dog.
Astoria: Warn the Uber driver.
Daisy: Warn EVERYONE. The funk is, and I quote, impossible to conceal.
Astoria: That's the official line.
Daisy: Respect the burger.
Astoria: Respect the burger.
Daisy: That's the episode.
Astoria: That's the episode.
Daisy: If you liked this, or if you want more of our nonsense —
Astoria: Or strain recs that won't get you evicted —
Daisy: — come find us at mncannabishub.com.
Astoria: mncannabishub.com.
Daisy: We love you. Be nice to your dog.
Astoria: Bye.
Daisy: Bye.
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