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Daisy licks the jar of Hash Burger — Leafly's 2025 Strain of the Year — and explains why this GMO x Donny Burger x Triangle Kush hybrid smells like a hibachi grill. Plus Virginia's 2027 rec launch, the DEA Schedule III court fight, and Germany's Exilby approval.
Daisy licks a jar of Hash Burger and tries to explain to Astoria why Leafly's 2025 Strain of the Year tastes like ammonia, onion, and cheese. Then the couch becomes a planet and the conversation drifts to Virginia, the DEA, and Germany.
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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 not gonna lie to you, Astoria, my first thought was, did I leave a quesadilla in here.
Daisy: Because it was savory. It was a savory smell. Coming from a plant.
Astoria: It's not supposed to smell like Taco Bell.
Daisy: It's not supposed to smell like ANYTHING I would order at midnight, and yet.
Astoria: And yet.
Daisy: And then I, you know, I get into it. I roll a little guy. I sit down. I take two — TWO — pulls.
Astoria: Mhm.
Daisy: And the couch becomes a planet.
Astoria: What does that mean.
Daisy: It means the couch developed gravity. It means I was no longer a passenger on the couch, I was a feature OF the couch.
Astoria: You melted.
Daisy: I FUSED.
Daisy: My phone was eleven inches from my hand and it might as well have been on the moon.
Astoria: Okay see this is what people mean by couch-lock.
Daisy: This is the platonic ideal of couch-lock. They should put me in a museum.
Astoria: As a warning.
Daisy: As a warning, yes.
Astoria: Did anything happen, or did you just... become furniture.
Daisy: Okay so this is the part that I have to confess.
Astoria: Oh boy.
Daisy: I started thinking about Virginia.
Astoria: The state?
Daisy: The state. Because I'd seen this thing earlier in the day, that Virginia FINALLY worked out a deal for, like, real adult-use sales.
Astoria: Right, that was just on the news.
Daisy: The governor and the legislature, they did this whole compromise after the veto thing in April. Retail's gonna actually start, but not til, like, summer of next year.
Astoria: July first, twenty twenty-seven, I think.
Daisy: Look at you.
Astoria: I read.
Daisy: With like a two-ounce cap per transaction.
Astoria: An eight percent excise tax once it ramps in.
Daisy: Astoria, that is HOT girl knowledge.
Astoria: It's policy, Daisy.
Daisy: Policy is hot.
Astoria: Anyway, you're on the couch.
Daisy: I'm on the couch. I am fused to the couch. And my brain says — out loud, by the way, I said this out loud to a throw pillow — "Virginia took how long?"
Daisy: Like I was personally offended on behalf of Virginia.
Astoria: You don't live in Virginia.
Daisy: I have never been to Virginia.
Daisy: But I had OPINIONS. I had a whole, like, TED talk going for the throw pillow. About how, you know, the federal rescheduling thing is dragging—
Astoria: Right, like the petition the prohibitionist groups just filed at the DC Circuit.
Daisy: Trying to STAY the Schedule Three move. Like, c'mon.
Astoria: I do want to push back on you for a second though.
Daisy: Push.
Astoria: You — high — explaining federal cannabis policy to a throw pillow — is not a credentialed analyst.
Daisy: Wow.
Astoria: I'm sorry.
Daisy: WOW.
Astoria: I'm not saying the take was wrong.
Daisy: You're saying the pillow shouldn't have had to listen.
Astoria: I'm saying the pillow didn't consent.
Daisy: The pillow is fine.
Astoria: Did you... did you actually know the timeline on the rescheduling thing, or were you just vibing.
Daisy: Honestly? At the time? Vibing.
Astoria: Mhm.
Daisy: I knew the Trump administration moved it to Schedule Three back in April. That part stuck.
Astoria: Right.
Daisy: But like, the DEA hearing dates and all that, I had to look it up after I peeled myself off the couch.
Astoria: There's a substantive hearing at the end of June, right?
Daisy: June twenty-ninth. And the notifications for who gets to participate go out a week before that. Like, the twenty-second.
Astoria: Okay so this is happening basically right now.
Daisy: This is happening RIGHT now. While we are sitting here. While I am still slightly mad at a throw pillow.
Daisy: And here's the thing. The prohibitionist groups, the ones trying to stay it? They are SO mad.
Astoria: They've been so mad for so long.
Daisy: It's been their whole personality for like sixty years. At some point you gotta get a hobby. Take up pickleball.
Astoria: Take up pickleball.
Daisy: Knit something.
Astoria: Okay so — pop culture hot take.
Daisy: YES. Okay.
Astoria: What do you got.
Daisy: My hot take is — and I want you to push back on me, because I know you will—
Astoria: I will.
Daisy: Strain naming has gotten WORSE than band naming.
Astoria: Oh.
Daisy: Okay. Stay with me.
Astoria: Okay.
Daisy: Bands in the seventies, eighties, nineties, even the two thousands, bands had to NAME themselves. You had to pick something that looked good on a t-shirt.
Astoria: Right.
Daisy: You couldn't be like, "we are Strawberry Cough Banana Marshmallow Number Forty-Two."
Astoria: That sounds like a K-pop subunit.
Daisy: But weed is just... whatever. Hash Burger. Donny Burger. GMO. Like, you guys aren't even trying.
Astoria: Counterpoint.
Daisy: Go.
Astoria: That's the charm.
Daisy: Oh, the charm.
Astoria: It's GENRE. Like, you don't go to a hardcore show expecting the band to be called "Susan." You go expecting them to be called like, "Concrete Casket."
Daisy: Okay that's fair.
Astoria: Strains have their own naming logic. And honestly, Hash Burger as a name does its JOB. It tells you what you're getting into. It's brown, it's funky, you're gonna want a nap.
Daisy: It's brown, it's funky, you're gonna want a nap.
Astoria: That's a tagline.
Daisy: That's a TATTOO.
Astoria: Don't.
Daisy: I'm gonna get it. Right here. On the forearm.
Astoria: Please don't.
Daisy: Okay but here's where I'm gonna admit I lose the argument a little.
Astoria: I'm listening.
Daisy: Because over in Europe, they just authorized like, an actual pharmaceutical cannabis medicine.
Astoria: Right, the German and Austrian thing.
Daisy: Yeah. It's like a full-spectrum extract. For chronic lower back pain.
Astoria: That's a big deal, that's like the first pharmaceutical-grade one approved over there.
Daisy: And it has a real name. Like a real, boring, pharmaceutical name. Which I am not going to butcher on this podcast.
Astoria: Smart.
Daisy: But the point is, when it's MEDICINE, suddenly the name gets serious. It's not Hash Burger. It's not Donny.
Astoria: It's a brand name with a hyphen and a number.
Daisy: Exactly. It's giving aspirin. It's giving "ask your doctor."
Astoria: Commercial launch is supposed to be September, I think.
Daisy: September of this year, yeah. Which means — and this is the part that breaks my brain a little — there's a world where your grandma in Munich gets prescribed cannabis for her back—
Astoria: Mhm.
Daisy: —and is talking about it at brunch the same week some guy in Denver is rolling up Donny Burger.
Astoria: And those are the same plant.
Daisy: Same PLANT. Different lives.
Astoria: That's actually a beautiful thought.
Daisy: I have those sometimes.
Astoria: One a year.
Daisy: One a year. Use 'em or lose 'em.
Daisy: Okay so wait, before we get out of here, I want to give people the actual takeaway.
Astoria: Yes. The takeaway. Because we have been a MESS.
Daisy: We have been such a mess.
Astoria: Okay so. Hash Burger.
Daisy: Hash Burger.
Astoria: If you are looking to be a person on a couch—
Daisy: A person of the couch.
Astoria: A person OF the couch. And you don't mind a smell that is honestly closer to a kitchen than a flower shop—
Daisy: It's a savory smoke. It's a savory experience.
Astoria: —then yeah, give it a shot. But like Daisy said, if your brain spirals, take it easy. Small. Little. Pulls.
Daisy: Two pulls put me in the dirt.
Astoria: Two pulls put her in the dirt.
Daisy: I am dirt-adjacent right now.
Astoria: And if you DON'T want to be in the dirt, you know, pick something else. There are a million strains. This is just the one wearing the crown right now.
Daisy: The funky funky crown.
Astoria: The funky funky crown.
Daisy: And don't lick the jar.
Astoria: Please don't lick the jar.
Daisy: That's the real takeaway. Hash Burger, two pulls max, do not put your tongue in there.
Astoria: That should be on every label.
Daisy: Surgeon general.
Astoria: Surgeon general's warning.
Daisy: Daisy's warning.
Astoria: Daisy's warning is more specific.
Daisy: Daisy has been there.
Astoria: Okay we gotta wrap.
Daisy: We gotta wrap.
Astoria: This was fun.
Daisy: This is always fun. You are always fun.
Astoria: you are also fun.
Daisy: If you want more of this, more strain talk, more news that I will absolutely get wrong on a couch, more Daisy yelling at pillows—
Astoria: That's the brand.
Daisy: That's the brand. Find us, find more stuff, at mncannabishub dot com.
Astoria: mncannabishub dot com.
Daisy: Go forth.
Astoria: Be gentle with yourselves.
Daisy: Don't lick the jar.
Astoria: Bye.
Daisy: Bye.
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