{"id":48479,"date":"2021-06-24T14:35:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T22:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2021\/06\/24\/gassy-strains-revive-with-east-coast-legalization\/"},"modified":"2021-06-25T01:45:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T09:45:20","slug":"gassy-strains-revive-with-east-coast-legalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2021\/06\/24\/gassy-strains-revive-with-east-coast-legalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Gassy Strains Revive with East Coast Legalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Cannabis legalization in New York City means things are a little looser at the Astor Club, a cannabis speakeasy located somewhere on Manhattan\u2019s Lower East Side (and, like everyone else in the weed game, reliably found 24\/7 on Instagram). The club\u2019s owners recently welcomed in a writer and photographer\u00a0from The New York Times<\/a>, where they caught a distinct whiff of gassy strains from the offerings behind the counter \u2013 a little different from the clouds appearing in Los Angeles, Seattle, or Denver. <\/p>\n

Gassy Cannabis: An Underground Original<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Like everywhere else with millions of people and an enormous appetite for cannabis, New York City\u2019s market for marijuana is measured in the billions of dollars. But unlike, say, Chicago \u2013 headquarters for several of the U.S.\u2019s billion-dollar publicly traded cannabis companies, including some that are buying licenses and setting up shop in New York \u2013 New York City has a homegrown cannabis culture, represented in strain names that have survived contact with legal adult-use cannabis\u2019 currently West Coast-dominant culture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York City Sour Diesel,\u201d an indica-dominant hybrid with distinct sharp notes \u2013 as if someone kicked over a gas can while filling up their lawnmower \u2013 has been a mainstay at seed banks as well as dispensaries coast-to-coast (and in Amsterdam) for decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And there\u2019s gas on the menu at Astor Club: a couple of different cuts of Sour Diesel, plus a few more of Chem Dog, another strain with fuel-like notes and East Coast origins. Off-menu, there\u2019s even more: the clubs\u2019 proprietors and a few close friends are passing back and forth enormous glass jars of their treasured private head stashes \u2013 and every single one of them is a gassy, fuel-y, chemmy varietal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the West Coast, a growers\u2019 ball would be all Gelato and Runtz. Here, it\u2019s a gas party.<\/p>\n

Plant-Based Fuel<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Cannabis plants produce terpenes in response to environmental conditions and stressors. Why cannabis plants started pumping out a fragrant mix reminiscent of petroleum \u2013 an elixir of modern life, completely unknown for the first few thousand years of human-domesticated cannabis \u2013 is an unsolved mystery.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maybe some insect or pest in the Afghan mountains didn\u2019t like the piney, earthy cocktail of pinene, linalool,\u00a0humulene and guaiol.\u00a0Whatever. Humans seem to love something about the invigorating distortion that segues quickly into a pleasantly aware relaxation. At least that\u2019s what gassy strains tend to do to me. And people seem to agree with me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of my most popular strains come from the gas terpene profile,\u201d says\u00a0Jessie Grundy, the founder and CEO of Oakland, California-based Peakz<\/a>, a licensed distribution company active in Oklahoma and Arizona, as well as California. Peakz\u2019s first popular proprietary strain, which Gundy mischievously dubbed \u201cGrandpa\u2019s Belt,\u201d came from a cut of Sour Diesel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re being technical, gassy strains are everywhere in popular cannabis. OG Kush\u2019s earthy and piney scent is part of the bouquet in most cuts where Cookies is in the lineage. However, as much as gas seems to trigger something in the human brain and body, the market is still moved by aesthetics.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know people want that gas profile, but they want that purple look, too,\u201d Grundy added. \u201cIt\u2019s about finding that balance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still a Gelato-Worl<\/strong>d<\/h4>\n

The wise heads at Astor caution that gas isn\u2019t taking over cannabis anytime soon, and a preference for gassy strains might be a sign of aging than anything else: you\u2019ve just been smoking so long that you associate a gas terpene profile with nostalgia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone still wants Gelato,\u201d one of the Astor owners tells me (we\u2019re offering anonymity for now, given the legal gray area in which the club operates). \u201cWe\u2019re just old-school heads.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, there\u2019s something here. If legal commercial cannabis is still in its infancy in the United States, the East Coast is an unborn homunculus, still waiting to see the first light of life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

How the national market will respond to New York\u2019s entrance is still an open question. But even West Coast entrepreneurs and cultivators think gas is primed for a comeback \u2013 and if tastemakers\u2019 palettes are any indication, gas is already everywhere premium cannabis is found \u2013 and just waiting for the right moment to reclaim center stage from the purple-tinged, Cookie Family-inspired cuts currently in the jars (and lungs) of the hype beasts whose appetites move dispensary menus (and keep legal cannabis entrepreneurs in the black).<\/p>\n

\u201cI really miss the gas, personally,\u201d says Neil Dellacava, a San Francisco-based industry veteran and co-founder of the Gold Seal brand.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people are really flocking towards the purple weed,\u201d he admitted, \u201cbut sours are still really popular, at least with the underground market.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

If that underground market maintains its habits in the commercial space, it\u2019s not impossible to imagine an industry powered by gassy cannabis strains.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the East Coast opens up, hopefully it also opens up a plethora of palettes: more flavors and more things coming out,\u201d Dellacava said. \u201cI\u2019d really love to see gas make a comeback. More gas! That\u2019s what I\u2019m all about.\u201d<\/p>\n

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