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We unpack Hash Burger — Leafly's 2025 Strain of the Year — a 28-35% THC indica-leaning hybrid that tastes like a cheeseburger and sleeps you like one. Plus: the DEA's June 29 rescheduling hearing, Virginia's recreational sales deal, and ATF's cannabis-and-guns guidance.
Daisy and Astoria break down Hash Burger, the umami-forward indica hybrid Leafly crowned 2025 Strain of the Year, then pivot to the federal cannabis news dropping this week — including the DEA rescheduling hearing that kicks off the day after this episode.
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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 went, this woman needs to be horizontal.
Daisy: He DID say "you're gonna have a real nice rest of your night."
Astoria: There it is.
Daisy: That was code. That was code and I missed it.
Astoria: Couch-lock as a service.
Daisy: Couch-lock as a service. That's the tagline.
Astoria: I do think the funniest thing about Hash Burger is the way the whole experience is just... the entire stoner stereotype, condensed into one nug.
Daisy: Right? It tastes like a cheeseburger.
Astoria: It's NAMED after a cheeseburger.
Daisy: It makes you want a cheeseburger.
Astoria: And then it puts you to sleep before you can finish the cheeseburger.
Daisy: It's the snake eating its tail. It's poetry.
Astoria: It's the food coma in plant form.
Daisy: The food coma in plant form. Put that on the jar.
Astoria: So is this our rec for the week?
Daisy: This is our rec for the week. But ONLY at night. Do not, I am begging you—
Astoria: —don't be a hero.
Daisy: Do not be a hero. Do not pack a Hash Burger bowl at noon thinking you're going to "get some emails done."
Astoria: You will not get emails done.
Daisy: You will get nap done.
Astoria: Nap will be the only verb available to you.
Daisy: Okay I love this for us.
Astoria: Pairs nicely with: a blanket, a quesadilla you will not finish, and zero responsibilities until eight a.m. the next day.
Daisy: Eight a.m. is generous. I'd say ten.
Astoria: Ten. Fine. Ten.
Daisy: Okay so. Pivot. Because while we're sitting here talking about a sleepy cheeseburger nug—
Astoria: —which, again, is the most us sentence ever uttered—
Daisy: —while we're doing that, the federal government is, like, LITERALLY tomorrow, starting a multi-week hearing about whether weed should still be in the same legal bucket as heroin.
Astoria: Tomorrow tomorrow?
Daisy: Tomorrow tomorrow. June twenty-ninth.
Astoria: Wait, you actually know the date?
Daisy: Astoria. I read a thing. I read a whole thing.
Astoria: I'm so proud of you.
Daisy: Thank you.
Astoria: Okay, walk me through it.
Daisy: So the DEA is doing this big formal hearing on moving cannabis from Schedule One down to Schedule Three.
Astoria: Which would be a big deal.
Daisy: Huge deal. And the hearing runs through mid-July. Like nine to five, every day, for over two weeks.
Astoria: That is a LOT of meetings about weed.
Daisy: It's the longest group project of all time.
Astoria: At the DEA.
Daisy: At the DEA. In Virginia. Wearing suits.
Astoria: I love that the day after this episode comes out, a federal agency clocks in to sit in a windowless room and argue about whether the thing we just spent twenty minutes joking about is as dangerous as heroin.
Daisy: Right? The timing is so funny to me.
Astoria: Like, congratulations on the cheeseburger nug. Now please report to the conference room.
Daisy: Bring a notebook.
Astoria: Bring two notebooks.
Daisy: Okay so, here's where I'm gonna admit something.
Astoria: Oh no.
Daisy: I don't actually know what Schedule Three would change. Like, for me. The consumer.
Astoria: Honestly? I don't fully know either.
Daisy: Thank you!
Astoria: I know it's not legalization. Like, it doesn't make it legal-legal.
Daisy: Right.
Astoria: But it's a big symbolic move. And it changes a lot of tax stuff for cannabis businesses, I think.
Daisy: So my dispensary might survive.
Astoria: Your dispensary might thrive.
Daisy: My budtender might get dental.
Astoria: Your budtender gets dental, that's the headline.
Daisy: That's the rescheduling pitch. Dental for budtenders.
Astoria: I'd vote for that.
Daisy: There's also this whole side thing where people are fighting just to LIVESTREAM the hearing.
Astoria: Wait, they're not livestreaming it?
Daisy: As of right now? They're pressing the judge on it. It's a whole fight.
Astoria: That's wild. It's the most C-SPAN-able event of the year.
Daisy: It is BUILT for C-SPAN. It is C-SPAN bait.
Astoria: I would put that on in the background while I clean.
Daisy: I would put it on while I smoked a Hash Burger bowl.
Astoria: Daisy.
Daisy: What! It's thematic!
Astoria: It's so thematic.
Daisy: Watching the government decide if my couch-lock cheeseburger is heroin, FROM my couch, ON the cheeseburger.
Astoria: That's a full circle moment.
Daisy: That's the show.
Astoria: Honestly... I want to push back here for a sec.
Daisy: Push back, queen.
Astoria: Because we're joking, but the fact that they have to spend almost three weeks debating this in 2026—
Daisy: —yeah—
Astoria: —when the vast majority of states have already moved on, is kind of insane.
Daisy: It is insane.
Astoria: Like, Virginia JUST cut a deal to actually open up recreational sales.
Daisy: Oh, I saw that!
Astoria: Which, by the way, Virginia legalized POSSESSING weed years ago.
Daisy: Years ago.
Astoria: And only just now figured out, hey, maybe people should be able to BUY it somewhere.
Daisy: That's so funny.
Astoria: Like it took the governor and the legislature five years to go, "wait, where are they getting it from?"
Daisy: "How are they... where is the weed coming from, you guys?"
Astoria: "Has anyone asked?"
Daisy: That is such a "we forgot a step" energy.
Astoria: It's IKEA instructions energy.
Daisy: It's IKEA energy. There's a leftover bag of screws and the bag is recreational sales.
Astoria: Stop.
Daisy: It's the whole second floor of the dresser.
Astoria: Okay but the deal apparently went to the governor's desk, so it's actually moving.
Daisy: Good for Virginia. Welcome to the party. Bring chips.
Astoria: Bring chips. Bring a Hash Burger.
Daisy: Bring a Hash Burger and a blanket.
Astoria: There's also — and this is the one that's been living in my brain rent-free — the ATF thing.
Daisy: Oh god, the gun thing.
Astoria: The gun thing.
Daisy: Explain it, because I have BIG feelings and zero facts.
Astoria: Classic Daisy.
Daisy: Thank you.
Astoria: So the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives—
Daisy: —the longest agency name in America—
Astoria: —said they're going to update their guidance on whether cannabis users can legally own guns.
Daisy: Because the Supreme Court did a thing.
Astoria: The Supreme Court did a thing. They basically said the blanket federal ban on weed users having guns isn't constitutional.
Daisy: So now ATF is, like, doing homework.
Astoria: They have to come up with new guidance.
Daisy: Here is my hot take.
Astoria: Mm.
Daisy: The agency is called Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
Astoria: Mhm.
Daisy: At what point do we just add the M for marijuana?
Astoria: ATMFE.
Daisy: ATMFE. Or ATMFE-X for the explosives.
Astoria: The acronym is collapsing.
Daisy: The acronym is becoming a Mad Libs page.
Astoria: It really is.
Daisy: Like, what's next. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Marijuana, Firearms, Explosives, Energy Drinks—
Astoria: —Vapes—
Daisy: —Vapes. Kratom.
Astoria: Kratom! Yes!
Daisy: Kava.
Astoria: It's just becoming the Bureau of Things Your Mom Worried About.
Daisy: The Bureau Of Things Your Mom Worried About. Astoria.
Astoria: I'm just saying.
Daisy: That's the rebrand.
Astoria: That's the rebrand.
Daisy: Okay but real talk for one second.
Astoria: Real talk.
Daisy: This is one of those weeks where if you're a cannabis person, like, even a casual one—
Astoria: —yeah—
Daisy: —there is actually a lot happening that affects you.
Astoria: Big federal hearing kicking off.
Daisy: A state finally turning the lights on at its dispensaries.
Astoria: A federal agency literally rewriting its rules about you.
Daisy: And the only cultural conversation around it is, like, my podcast about a sleepy cheeseburger.
Astoria: Which... is also valid.
Daisy: It's the most valid.
Astoria: It's the only way I can metabolize federal news, honestly.
Daisy: Same.
Astoria: If you don't laugh, you cry.
Daisy: Cry on Hash Burger. Worst combo.
Astoria: Don't do that.
Daisy: Do not do that.
Astoria: Okay, takeaway.
Daisy: One concrete takeaway.
Astoria: Mine first?
Daisy: Go.
Astoria: If you're going to try Hash Burger this week — and based on the year it's having, you probably should — treat it like dessert. End of the night. Snacks pre-positioned. Phone on do not disturb.
Daisy: Pre-positioned snacks. That's a phrase.
Astoria: That's the move.
Daisy: Mine is — pay even, like, ten percent of attention to that DEA hearing this week.
Astoria: Mm.
Daisy: I'm not saying read the transcripts. I'm saying just, like, glance at a headline.
Astoria: Glance at a headline.
Daisy: Because the rules around this plant we love are actively being rewritten, on the clock, starting tomorrow, and we just spent twenty-five minutes laughing about cheeseburgers.
Astoria: Both things can be true.
Daisy: Both things can be true.
Astoria: Be informed. Be horizontal. In that order.
Daisy: In that order!
Astoria: That's the show.
Daisy: That is the show.
Astoria: Okay we should let these nice people get back to their lives.
Daisy: We should. Even though I personally have nowhere to be.
Astoria: She has nowhere to be.
Daisy: I have a couch and a jar.
Astoria: She has a couch, a jar, and a half a quesadilla in the fridge.
Daisy: You had to bring it back.
Astoria: I had to bring it back.
Daisy: If you liked this, found us via a friend, or you are that friend—
Astoria: —thank you, friend—
Daisy: —come hang with us at mncannabishub dot com.
Astoria: That's where the rest of our nonsense lives.
Daisy: That's where you'll find more recs, more news we barely understand—
Astoria: —and more of Daisy on a floor somewhere.
Daisy: Always.
Astoria: We'll see you next week.
Daisy: Be nice to your budtender.
Astoria: Be nice to your couch.
Daisy: Goodnight, everybody.
Astoria: Goodnight.
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