Snoop Dogg’s weed brand Death Row Cannabis launched a 2Pac weed line at the Grand Opening of Snoop’s new dispensary S.W.E.D. in Los Angeles.
Snoop Dogg’s Death Row Cannabis has brought 2Pac to 2024 with a limited-edition weed collection. It is dropping at select stores in Snoop and 2Pac’s home state of California. The unique collaboration is a West Coast love letter.
2Pac famously gave Snoop his first blunt, a story Snoop recounts lovingly.
“That first blunt sparked a friendship that ran deep,” Snoop says. “We’ll always have his music, but this is another way I can bring what was meaningful to 2Pac to his fans.”
Snoop Dogg appeared in person for the line’s launch at his new dispensary in Los Angeles called S.W.E.D., which stands for “smoke weed every day.”
It’s a reference to Snoop’s iconic line that ends the Dre classic The Next Episode.
A line wrapped around the block for S.W.E.D.’s grand opening. The store is an homage to south Central LA, where Snoop’s illustrious career began. The 2Pac collab is part of the store’s inaugural offerings alongside some favorite California brands like Team Elite Genetics and Palettas.
Snoop with the Death Row Records and S.W.E.D. team. (Courtesy Death Row Cannabis)
(Lindsey Bartlett for Leafly)
Death Row Cannabis branded L.A. Pop. (Lindsey Bartlett for Leafly)
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2Pac joined Death Row Records in 1995 just four years after the record’s founding. Snoop Dogg took over as CEO of Death Row Records in 2022. He launched Death Row Cannabis in 2023. The Doggfather personally chose 2Pac as the inaugural artist collaboration for Death Row Cannabis.
Smokers will be able to choose from one of five strains: Alien OG, Take 1, Take 2, Take 3, and Take 4– each phenotype comes from the same parent genetics. Consumers can vote for their favorite flavor through a QR code on the weed’s packaging. The winning cultivar will then be sold in a permanent 2Pac collection that arrives in the fall. Snoop and 2Pac’s jars of flower come with never-before-released collectible photos of 2Pac in front of a Death Row Record graffiti-covered wall, alongside a commemorative matchbook.
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Snoop’s dad was at the grand opening. He says he is very proud to have a weed shop in Inglewood.
“I can’t believe it,” says Papa Snoop. “I can get some free weed.”
He’s excited about the 2Pac strain and looks forward to his own weed line that drops in about eight weeks.
Snoop Dogg included his late friend 2Pac in the success, even though he isn’t around to see how far the legalization movement has come today. 2Pac is among the most influential political and social rappers of all time. Snoop continues to champion cannabis and hip-hop culture, carrying the flame further than it has ever been. Literally. After the store opening, Snoop is off to Paris to host the Summer Olympics.
The 2Pac x Snoop Dogg cannabis line will be released across dispensaries in California beginning on July 19, 2024, and then in Michigan through a partnership with Pleasantrees later in 2024. The new storefront S.W.E.D. in Inglewood is located at 5494 W Centinela Ave.
This September, the nation’s budtenders give us their Budtender’s Choice 2024 picks for the best strain and brand in the state, but you don’t have to wait for the results to come in to smoke that fire.
Leafly Buzz flew up and down California, scooping up tasty nugs and seeing which jars we finished first. After scouring strain search trends and menus—we find ourselves deep in the hype stuff: Blue Gushers, Cherry Gushers, Permanent Marker Bx1, and the like.
Here’s your monthly cheat codes to the best bong loads of September. Here’s September’s Leafly Buzz.
Data grinder
Which strains are on the move in Leafly’s 9,000-strain database? (Sasha Beck/Leafly)
We broke out our calculators, plugged into the Leafly strain database, and ran a scan for zaza. Here’s what the stats tell us.
Lemon Cherry Gelato
No. #2
Lemon Cherry Gelato. (David Downs/Leafly)
So popular you love it or loathe it, Lemon Cherry Gelato climbs into the number two strain spot in the western states this month. For newcomers, it’s a hybrid indica that’s relaxing, soothing, and silly. As popular as a pinot noir, fine cannabis brands each claim their own cut of this cultivar—popularized by Backpack Boyz. Some say LCG is re-branded Gelato #33, others Gelato x Z.
GMO
No. #8
GMO Cookies. (David Downs/Leafly file photo 2020)
GMO Cookies charges into the No. 8 spot out west this month with a stanky, somnambulant stone. Chemmy, gassy, and dank—GMO nugs come super-size for bag appeal. Oregon and Michigan both specialize in GMOs.
Gary Payton
No. #9
All-star Gary Payton. Indica hybrid. (Courtesy Cookies)
Gary Payton hits a slippery spot and drops to No. 9 this month. The dessert strain is built from The Y and Snowman, with a jammy floral fuel note. Bred by Powerzzzup Genetics in the Bay Area, growers coast-to-coast rock Payton in their lineup.
White Runtz
up 22.4%
Sheesh! Umma Sonoma White Runtz. (Courtesy Ummas Sonoma)
Rounding out an all-cookie fam Data Grinder we see White Runtz doing numbers. It’s up 22.4% month over month, with really similar traits to Lemon Cherry Gelato. It’s just a little more calming, and more dense. Both test high in caryophyllene, limonene, and linalool.
New in the Leafly strain database
Leafly adds or fixes 1,000 strains in its database each year. Here’s some of the new-new. (Sasha Beck/Leafly)
Cherry Pie x Z x Biscotti
Cherry Pie x Z x Biscotti by Bosky Genetics. (David Downs/Leafly)
Old-school Cherry Pie gets the candy of Z and the cookie of Biscotti in this 3-way cross. Dark, icy, striking, and dank—this flavor is another end-of-day reward. High-end indoor flower grower Bosky won the Transbay Challenge qualifier of San Diego with Cherry Pie x Z x Biscotti this summer.
Blue Gushers
Made brand Blue Gushers. (David Downs/Leafly)
California and Arizona brand Made grows the Blue Gushers a type of Triangle Kush x Gelato 41 with a blue hue and sweet, gooey, berry taste. Blue Gushers is a sweet hybrid for getting creative or tripping on a nature video.
Pink Froot
Colorado-based Green Dot Labs is back with another exclusive cannabis strain drop, coming in October, GDL’s Pink Frōōt strain has a tropical taffy candy and euphoric, yet functional buzz.
Sour Elvis
Sour Diesel and the strain Elvis (AK-47 x Skunk #1) combine in Sour Elvis, spotted at Hall of Flowers from the East Coast brand Nature Always Wins. It’s a really unique mix of old-school sour with more fuel and dank from the Elvis.
Picks of the dispensaries
(Sasha Beck/Leafly)
New on shelves
Double Rainbow
Happy Trails
Double Rainbow will leave veteran smokers cooked on a 37% THC indica hybrid cross of Rainbow Cookies and Purple Hulk. Happy Trails’ jar of it got me uncomfortably high and yet I’d come back for half-bowls and ride the rainbow, holding on through deep breathing and water. Sometimes you just want a journey. Woman and social equity-owned flower company Happy Trails from Oakland, CA keeps crushing it.
Burning up the charts
Pineapple Jack
Happy Trails
Phew, we broke the cookies spell with some classic Pineapple Jack, jarred by Happy Trails in California. It’s got pineapple, tropical and pine notes and zippy, focused daytime effects. Pineapple Jack is going to make that art project crank by.
Best-sellers
Ballin out
Cherry Gushers
SF Canna
While Made grows Blue Gushers down south, SF Canna has Cherry Gushers (Acai x Black Cherry Funk) for the Bay Area. Candy, gas in a gorgeous, multi-colored, resinous package—Cherry Gushers is great after a meal in the back yard with the gang.
Ballin’ on a budget
Permanent Marker Bx1
Made
Leafly Strain of the Year 2023 Permanent Marker keeps on charging with Permanent Marker Bx1, which stands for backcross. It’s even more of what makes Permanent Marker a winner—magic marker fumes and a dramatic dark look. Bred by Seed Junky and grown at scale by Made—it’s another perfect after-work treat.
High Note
We end with something fuerte. (Sasha Beck/Leafly)
Puffco’s new Storm Peak and Proxy
The annual Puffco party Puffcon has arrived and with it—the latest color for their hit lineup. This time, it’s the smokey, blue “storm” colorway for the New Peak and the Proxy. The Puffco offers the nicest way to onboard a friend who wants to start dabbing. Yet the advanced settings are not to be trifled with.
OK, we’re heading into the fray at Hall of Flowers in Santa Rosa. We’ll be back with even more hot, hot heat from the weed beat.
About Leafly Buzz
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Americans love cake—we love baking it, eating it, and smoking it—and Seed Junky’s cannabis confection Wedding Cake is no exception. A combination of Triangle Kush x Animal Mints, it has traveled across state and national lines and found new names like Pink Cookies and Triangle Mints #23. No matter what you call it, Leafly users have spent the last eight years loving Wedding Cake for its propensity to evoke relaxation, sedation, and even sexual arousal.
The rapid proliferation of this strain across phenotypes and into the genetic families of dozens of other strains still causes some cannabis elite to roll their eyes. But when the Cake hits the table, everybody wants a slice. We crowned Wedding Cake as Strain of the Year back in 2019 for its prismatic, colorful buds and blend of vanilla, fuel, and doughy flavors. It remains one of Leafly’s most visited strain pages of the last four years, occupying the top spot from 2021 to 2023 and currently sitting as the second most-visited of 2024.
It’s not just the masses that enjoy a Wedding Cake cartridge or preroll; it placed first for solvent-infused prerolls at the 2024 Emerald Cup. Its family tree clearly illustrated how this baked good has risen to produce some really strong heroes shaping strain trends in the market even today. So, we thought we would take a look at 12 of the most popular and distinct Cake crosses out there now.
#12 Beach Wedding
Two major names in one dynamite package. That’s the best way to describe what happened when Oni Seeds crossed Wedding Cake with their deeply cerebral Tropicanna Cookies. Dense nugs smell like sweet frosted cereal and a glass full of orange juice and gasoline. Known for producing large amounts of resin, Beach Wedding gives off a heavy body high but a stony, creative headspace.
#11 Dosi-Cake
Potent is the word most often thrown around when describing Dosi-Cake. Bred by Archive Seed Bank, the tag-team of Dosidos and Wedding Cake bring out the maximum stoniness out of each other. Archive says that this combination leans on the Wedding Cake side, and the flavor of sweet vanilla carries a fresh earthiness with it reminiscent of pine needles. This powerhouse left many Leafly reviewers too stoned to make it to the store for snacks, so come prepared.
#10 E85
Well known on shelves in California’s weed-drenched Bay Area, this Grandiflora Genetics creation pairs Wedding Cake with their popular Project 4516. E85 has a lot of that sweet gas on the nose and has gotten a great reputation with daily smokers who say they can smoke this on the daily and still get the same stony high.
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#9 Wedding Crasher
Wedding Crasher. (HubbardSteve/AdobeStock)
Another Cake cross that calls for an uplifting, and mentally creative experience is Wedding Crasher(s). A creation of Symbiotic Genetics, who also bred Mimosa and Amarelo, this strain carries the vanilla notes of Wedding Cake with the berry flavors of the Purple Punch as well. It’s almost like someone cut you a slice with the fresh fruit on top. Also renowned for helping with pain, there are countless reports of people who found smoking Wedding Crasher allowed them to let any problems roll right off them.
Also known as Wedding Driver and Vanilla Waferz, Cannarado’s Nila Wafer pairs up two cultivars that are known for gluing inexperienced smokers to the couch. Most smokers agree that this strain has a blissed out, uplifting effect that brings out the carefree side of your experience. Like a lot of Wedding Cake crosses, there’s a dominant vanilla flavor that gives this strain its name.
#7 Cake Crasher
When it comes to Cake hits, Seed Junky is DJ Khaled—another one! Using his Wedding Cake and Symbiotic Genetics’ Wedding Crasher, the game unlocked a bonus level full of flavor in Cake Crasher. Creative from the couch is the best way to describe the high on this one. Perfect for a day of editing videos, making music, or just playing video games. Cake Crasher is also responsible for helping SHUGA Seeds create their Purple Gelato.
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#6 Grape Cream Cake
Runner-up for Leafly’s 2023 Strain of the Year, Grape Cream Cake is a big hitter from Bloom Seed Company. This winning recipe includes Cannarado’s Grape Pie, Symbiotic Genetics’ Wedding Crasher, and Seed Junky’s Ice Cream Cake. Breeder Harry Palms also isolated a GCC phenotype he dubbed the Dulce De Uva, which helped create the popular Black Maple strain. Grape Cream Cake has vanilla, berry, and roasted nut flavors and Leafly’s reviews show an overall relaxed and sleepy euphoria.
#5 Purple Push Pop
Part of the big Seed Junky Jealousy explosion, Purple Push Pop brings together Ice Cream Cake, Sunset Sherbet, and Jealousy. Like Medellin, this is a Cake cross with a citrus flavor married to those vanilla overtones and the strong floral notes that come with any Jealousy cross. This one has that strong head buzz that drowns out the noise and let’s you sit back and enjoy what’s in front of you.
#4 Ice Cream Cake
Dark Heart Nursery’s Ice Cream Cake, 2021. (Courtesy Dark Heart Nursery)
The army of Seed Junky Cake crosses marches on. Part of the more sedated side of the Cake spectrum, Ice Cream Cake has a proven track record of helping people fall asleep, or just take the night off mentally. With a flavor that’s often described as creamy vanilla, you’ll find page after page of Leafly users giving this strain props for pain relief. Just like Wedding Cake, Ice Cream Cake has helped launch a thousand ships into the water, including a couple from this list.
#3 LA Kush Cake
Give her her flowers: LA Kush Cake from Luminescent Farms. (Courtesy Luminescent Farms)
One of the most famous members of the Cake family, and one of its steamiest, is LA Kush Cake. Named one of Leafly’s top 8 strains for arousal in 2023 and Best Personal Flower at 2019’s Emerald Cup, LA Kush Cake seems to leave people both relaxed and stimulated. Its flavors also run the gamut, with an earthiness that pairs well with notes of peppermint and vanilla. Along with the obvious, this strain also helped Leafly users with feelings of anxiety and depression.
#2 Papaya Cake
Another hit from the duo of Seed Junky and Oni Seed Company. Papaya Cake is as straightforward as it sounds—vanilla blends seamlessly with the unique fruitiness of Papaya strain, a combination as hard-hitting as chocolate and peanut butter. This is one strain that had Leafly user’s snacking like crazy. Looking to unwind, this strain has all the necessary qualifications and has a strong taste regardless of if you found it in flower, vape, or concentrate form.
#1 Wedding Cake
Wedding Cake from Bay Area CRAFT Delivery. (David Downs / Leafly)
The best Wedding Cake is still Seed Junky Genetics Wedding Cake. Being mega-popular means the strain has critics, but Cake just points at the scoreboard. You’ll be able to find it across the country in most dispensaries. You can find it in flower carts, pre-rolls and dabs, and edibles. It’s a commodity crop. It’s top-shelf flower. The branding alone is worth countless tens or hundreds of millions. This 24% THC hybrid indica dessert strain makes people relaxed, aroused, and hungry. The reviews speak for themselves.
“Makes you do the chores even when you really don’t want to. Keeps you married because the house is clean and the sex is fantastic. You’re hella mellow and able to talk to your partner in a civil manner about silly and serious topics. Sounds like a strain that should be in ceremonies!”
And that’s how you become the best and stay the best.
(Leafly)
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A staple of neighborhoods for meats, fresh vegetables and more – will California add in marijuana?
About 12% of people browse and potentially shop a Farmer’s Market on a regular basis. Usually they are pop-ups in a neighborhood with everything from local meat and fresh vegetables to vintage clothing and handcrafted products. Now the question is will California let marijuana be sold at farmers markets? A bill is going through the state legislature to allow small batch farmers and producers to sell at these venues. It could be an another step in fixing the chaos around their cannabis market.
The California cannabis industry has been struggling. With high taxes from state, regional and local governments, the businesses are burdened with high operational costs. Additionally, the state has done little or nothing to reduce the black market. This has lead some companies have gone under. Despite consumer use growing. While there has been lots of talk, this is one of the first major action. When legalization first started sweeping the country, California was the largest market. But with New York slowly getting their act together after chaotic rollout of recreational, they may lose out of being the top market.
This summer, the state legislature developed a bill to allow small producers to sell at local markets. This would be give some of the mom and pop more opportunity to reach consumers. They would only be allowed to see at markets in places like San Francisco where cannabis events are allowed by local governments. It would also cut overhead and the purchase price for customers, potentially reducing the huge black market in the state. The bill was forwarded to Governor Newsom, who is pondering whether or not to sign it and make it possible.
Governor Newson is a seasoned politician who is always looking to the future. This could be the first step in helping a popular, and for the state, profitable industry. Newsom was elected governor of California in 2018 and has stewarded the government’s action toward the industry, this could help provide some much needed relief.
