88 points out of 100

Spring, 2023

Price: $17/gram

Loud, fun, a very Jack Herer sweetness in not-overly-dense bud that looks more classic. Diesel Train comes off terpinolene-forward, and more Ghost Train Haze than Diesel. Smokes Jack-y and terpinolene-y and strong. Full-plant dried, three-week cure, and hand-trimmed.

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90 points out of 100

Spring/Summer, 2023

Price: $65/eighth

Cloud Cover in Missouri excels at this cross of MAC x Lemon Fire, bred by Capulator. Cloud Cover has won Cannabis Cups in Oregon and Michigan—and it shows. The big, chunky, purple and green indoor-grown nugs were the loudest flower in Fresh Karma, KC that day. The lemony pungency carried over to the great-tasting smoke, and superb, strong effect. Tasted like lemon fire, and hit like a Mac truck. A great pre-game for some brisket, Bud Light, and the blues.

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Dried, cured, packaged, and sold buds, reviewed from bag in tastings, are given a single score. A score given as a range (e.g., 90-94) indicates a preliminary score, usually based on a bag tasting of a commercially available bag or jar.

Special Designations
Our editors select cannabis with special qualities like:

Top-shelf: It ain’t cheap, or necessarily plentiful, but it’s really good. Welcome to the top shelf.
Highly Recommended: The season’s most impressive weed. Includes top-scorers and weed that hits the sweet spot of score, price, and availability.
Smart Buys: Weed that delivers fine character at affordable prices while broadly available.
Best Values: Weed with solid scores, modest prices and wide distribution.

Leafly News cannabis ratings and ethics

Leafly News aims to expand its expertise, authority and trust through our expertise and integrity.

Expertise is built through tastings, interviews with growers, visits to weed regions, and accumulated knowledge about cannabis horticulture, taste, history, and culture. Leafly News’ senior editor and freelancers have a combined 50 years of experience with cannabis.
We aim to be fair, impartial and independent, with policies including:

1. Actual tastings—If we didn’t smoke it, we’re not reviewing it. Judgment is strongly influenced by experience, and only using the product can enable rating it. At Leafly Weed Spectator, all official ratings of newly-released strains result from live tastings.
2. Independence—Leafly weed spectators are paid by Leafly and are independent. We gladly accept review units with no promises of coverage or a good rating. Accepting financial favors can compromise a critic’s judgment and lead to the perception of a conflict of interest. Leafly rating staff cannot accept bribes from the cannabis industry. We pay for our own expenses and arrange our own tastings and itineraries; we set up our official tastings in independent locations.
3. Ethical behavior—In order to keep readers’ trust, we act ethically. Every Leafly rater must abide by our Code of Ethics: Serve the reader; and stay close to the plant. Leafly News has been publishing for more than 12 years. Our readers will judge our expertise and integrity, and we have 10 million users per month.