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November 08Blue Dream Strain Review + Massachusetts Votes to Keep Legal Weed
This week we review Blue Dream, the strain every dispensary seems to carry, and cover Massachusetts voters choosing to keep legal weed.
In this episode:
Blue Dream basics: Leafly calls it a sativa-dominant hybrid, bred from Blueberry and Haze.

Effects users report most: creative, euphoric and happy. Common downsides: dry mouth, dry eyes and dizziness.

Flavor and terpenes: berry, blueberry and sweet, with myrcene as the main terpene, then pinene and caryophyllene.

Potency: Leafly lists about 21% THC and 0% CBD, and says it can be more than 20% THC.

Massachusetts Question 8: in the November 3, 2026 election, voters rejected a measure that would have repealed recreational cannabis sales and home growing.

The margin: 76% no to 24% yes, according to the Associated Press, with about 80% of ballots counted.

Broken Lizard, the comedy troupe behind Super Troopers and Beerfest, made a video ad explaining how to vote on the confusingly worded ballot.

Reactions from NORML's Paul Armentano and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, plus the signature gatherer the campaign says it fired.
Sources:
Leafly: Blue Dream strain profile

Marijuana Moment: Massachusetts voters decide to keep marijuana sales legal
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Daisy: Okay, but that's the thing about a beige Camry. Nobody brags about it. Nobody. And yet it's in every single parking lot.
Astoria: Daisy. We are two sentences in and you're already comparing weed to a car.
Daisy: Because it's the PERFECT comparison! Blue Dream is the beige Camry of weed. And I mean that with love.
Astoria: Oh, with love. Very generous.
Daisy: It's reliable! It starts every time! Every dispensary has it. Everybody's cousin swears by it.
Astoria: Okay... my cousin does swear by it. That part's true.
Daisy: See? Everyone has a Blue Dream cousin.
Astoria: And mine says it like it's a secret. Leans in, real quiet, "Have you ever heard of a little something called Blue Dream?" Yes. Yes, I have. Everyone has.
Daisy: It's like whispering, "Have you guys heard of pizza?"
Astoria: Okay, but hold on. I'm gonna push back on the Camry thing a little.
Daisy: Here we go.
Astoria: A Camry is boring. You're calling it boring and then you're about to spend ten minutes telling me it changed your life.
Daisy: It didn't change my life. It changed my Tuesday. That's different.
Astoria: Fine. Your Tuesday.
Daisy: Okay so, real quick, for anybody who doesn't know it. What actually is it?
Astoria: Leafly calls it a sativa-dominant hybrid. It's a cross of Blueberry and Haze.
Daisy: Which explains the name. Half the family tree is a fruit and the other half sounds like a 1970s rock album.
Astoria: "Haze." Opening for somebody in a stadium.
Daisy: Big hair. Smoke machine. Somebody's dad has the vinyl.
Astoria: So the effects people report most are creative, euphoric, and happy.
Daisy: Which, honestly, those are three things I would like to be. Any day. Pick one.
Astoria: And the downsides are dry mouth, dry eyes, and dizziness.
Daisy: So you pick your poison. Cotton mouth or desert eyeballs.
Astoria: Or both. Both is an option.
Daisy: Both is usually what happens to me. I'm a both kind of girl.
Astoria: Flavor is berry, blueberry, and sweet.
Daisy: Yeah, it tastes like... if a muffin was legally allowed to be relaxed.
Astoria: That's not a flavor note, Daisy.
Daisy: It's MY flavor note.
Astoria: Okay, and terpenes. Leafly says myrcene is the main one, then pinene, then caryophyllene.
Daisy: Okay, I'm just gonna be honest with you. I do not know what caryophyllene is. I don't even know how I'd spell it. I've been nodding at that word for years.
Astoria: You've been nodding at it?
Daisy: Somebody says it at a dispensary counter and I go, "Mm. Yes. Love that one." Like I'm at a wine tasting. I have no idea what I'm agreeing to.
Astoria: That is the most you thing I've ever heard.
Daisy: Fake it till you... caryophyllene it.
Astoria: That doesn't work.
Daisy: It doesn't. I heard it as I said it.
Astoria: And potency. Leafly lists it around 21 percent THC, zero percent CBD, and says it can be more than 20 percent.
Daisy: Which is the part people forget. Because it's the Camry. You think, "Oh, it's the friendly one." And then the friendly one takes you somewhere.
Astoria: Okay, so this is the story. I can feel it coming.
Daisy: This is the story. So. It's a Tuesday night. I'm home, I've got nothing going on, and I have a little Blue Dream. Small amount. Responsible amount.
Astoria: Sure.
Daisy: It WAS responsible! And within, like, twenty minutes... the creative thing kicks in. And I don't mean, like, "Oh, I might journal." I mean I decided I was a songwriter.
Astoria: Oh no.
Daisy: And I look around my apartment for inspiration, like a real artist does, and my eyes land on my fern.
Astoria: No.
Daisy: And I wrote a song. For the fern. About the fern. From the fern's point of view, at one point, there was a bridge...
Astoria: Hold on. Hold on. You did not write a song about a fern.
Daisy: I did. His name is Fernando.
Astoria: Of course it is.
Daisy: And it's going GREAT. I'm euphoric. I'm happy. I'm creative. All three! I'm hitting the whole list! And I get to the emotional part of the song, the part where Fernando is worried I don't water him enough...
Astoria: Which you don't.
Daisy: Which I DON'T, and that's why it hit so hard. And I feel my eyes start to sting. And I think, wow. Wow. I'm crying. I've made art so powerful that I'm crying at my own fern song.
Astoria: Oh, Daisy.
Daisy: I was not crying. My eyeballs were just dry. It was the desert eyeballs. I was having a breakthrough and it was actually just... dehydration.
Astoria: So you were sitting in your apartment crying at a plant, but you weren't even crying.
Daisy: I was fake crying for real, if that makes sense.
Astoria: It doesn't.
Daisy: So then my mouth is like a beach. Like I've been chewing a sweater. So I go, okay, I need water. And I stand up. FAST. Like a fern songwriter with somewhere to be.
Astoria: The dizziness.
Daisy: The dizziness. The whole room did a little spin, like it was showing off. And I sat back down, but not on the couch. Into the laundry basket.
Astoria: Into it?
Daisy: Into it! I folded...
12 min
November 01Super Troopers Crew on Question 8, Blue Dream & Hiking High
The Super Troopers guys try to explain a confusing Massachusetts marijuana ballot question, Daisy reviews Blue Dream after a "hike" that went sideways, and a new poll shows just how many hikers get high on the trail.
In this episode:
Broken Lizard, the comedy group behind Super Troopers and Beerfest, released a roughly two-minute video about Massachusetts' Question 8 (reported by Marijuana Moment on October 26, 2026).

Why voters are confused: the measure is titled "An Act to Restore Sensible Marijuana Policy," but voting YES would end legal adult-use sales and repeal home growing. Voting NO keeps the current dispensary system.

Lines from the video: "You guys got duped," and "When it comes to Question 8 on Election Day, just say no." Disclosure: the video was paid for by the Committee for Responsible Cannabis Policy, which is campaigning against the measure.

The two sides have spent nearly $6.5 million on the Question 8 fight.

Strain of the week: Blue Dream, which Leafly calls a sativa-dominant hybrid and a cross of Blueberry and Haze. Leafly lists it at about 21% THC and 0% CBD.

Blue Dream effects users report most on Leafly: creative, euphoric, happy. Most-reported downsides: dry mouth, dry eyes, dizzy. Flavors: berry, blueberry, sweet.

A Climbing Kilimanjaro poll of 1,008 U.S. adult hikers found 35% have hiked high, more than any other substance in the poll. 23% have hiked after drinking alcohol.

Of hikers who use substances on the trail, 48% say they do it to feel more connected to nature, 51% stick to short, easy trails near home, and only 5% do it on harder hikes or climbs.
Sources:
Marijuana Moment: The Super Troopers guys help explain the confusing anti-marijuana question on Massachusetts's ballot

Marijuana Moment: Supporters and opponents of the Massachusetts anti-marijuana ballot question have spent nearly $6.5 million

Marijuana Moment: More than a third of hikers use marijuana to enhance their experience on the trail, poll shows

Leafly: Blue Dream strain
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Daisy: Okay so, no, I need you to understand. I wasn't LOST. I knew exactly where I was. I just didn't know where anything ELSE was.
Astoria: That's... that's what lost is, Daisy. That's the whole definition.
Daisy: It's a mindset.
Astoria: Okay. Back up. Where were you?
Daisy: So I go on a hike. And I'm using the word "hike" very generously, because it was a paved loop. Near my house. There was a trash can every, like, forty feet.
Astoria: Wow. Very rugged. Did you pack a compass?
Daisy: I packed a granola bar and a vibe.
Astoria: Okay, I'm gonna push back right away, though. That's not a hike. That's a walk with ambition.
Daisy: Hold on - there were trees. Some of them were tall. One of them had a little sign.
Astoria: The sign said "park."
Daisy: The sign said park. Okay. But here's the thing, Astoria. I am apparently EXTREMELY normal. Did you see this poll?
Astoria: The hiking one? Yeah. I sent it to you.
Daisy: You sent it to me, I didn't open it, then I saw it somewhere else and thought I discovered it.
Astoria: That's very you.
Daisy: So, Marijuana Moment wrote this up back in October. An expedition company, Climbing Kilimanjaro, polled 1,008 adult hikers in the U.S. And thirty-five percent said they've hiked high.
Astoria: Thirty-five percent. More than a third.
Daisy: More than a third! And it was the most-used substance in the whole poll. Twenty-three percent had hiked after drinking.
Astoria: Which, honestly, hiking drunk sounds way worse. You'd just... fall into a creek with confidence.
Daisy: Confidently wet. Okay, but my favorite part. Of the people who use something on the trail, forty-eight percent say they do it to feel more connected to nature.
Astoria: Mm-hm. Sure.
Daisy: And then fifty-one percent of them stick to short, easy trails near home.
Astoria: Your sidewalk.
Daisy: MY sidewalk! I'm the majority! And only five percent do it on harder hikes or climbs. Which, thank god. I don't wanna be the five percent. The five percent are dangling off something.
Astoria: The five percent need to make different choices.
Daisy: The five percent need a helmet and a therapist.
Astoria: Okay, so what were you actually on? Because I feel like this is where the story turns.
Daisy: Okay so this is my recommendation this week, and I stand by it. Even after what happened. Blue Dream.
Astoria: Classic. Very classic.
Daisy: It's a classic for a reason! So, Leafly lists it as a hybrid. The exact words are "sativa-dominant hybrid." It's a cross of Blueberry and Haze.
Astoria: Which explains the name. Blue. Dreamy.
Daisy: Right. And I'll be honest with you... I've said "Haze" out loud probably a thousand times in my life, and I don't actually know what Haze is. Like, as a plant. I just nod.
Astoria: You don't know what Haze is.
Daisy: I know it's a parent! That's all I know. It's like knowing your friend's mom's first name. Have I met her? No. Would I recognize her at a grocery store? Absolutely not.
Astoria: That's fair, honestly. Most people are just repeating the family tree off a label.
Daisy: Okay, numbers. Leafly has it around twenty-one percent THC, zero percent CBD, and they say it can be more than twenty percent.
Astoria: So not a gentle little afternoon thing.
Daisy: Not a baby's-first-anything, no. And the effects people report most are creative, euphoric, and happy.
Astoria: Okay. And the downsides?
Daisy: Dry mouth. Dry eyes. And dizzy.
Astoria: So creative and euphoric, but you'll need eye drops and a chair.
Daisy: You need eye drops and a CHAIR. Which is the story. That's the whole story.
Astoria: Go. Tell it.
Daisy: Okay. So I have a little, before the walk - hike. Before the hike.
Astoria: Walk.
Daisy: And at first it's GREAT. The creative thing is real. I'm looking at a tree and I'm like... that tree has a backstory. That tree's been through a divorce.
Astoria: Oh no.
Daisy: I'm naming them. I'm giving them arcs. There's this little bush next to it, and I decide it's the tree's nephew, visiting for the summer, and he does NOT want to be there.
Astoria: The nephew bush.
Daisy: The nephew bush! And I'm happy! Euphoric, even. I'm connected to nature. I'm the forty-eight percent.
Astoria:
11 min
October 25Blue Lobster Strain + Michael Douglas & Danny DeVito's Joint-Swallowing Story
Daisy and Astoria break down Leafly's October 2026 Editor's Pick Blue Lobster, then unpack Michael Douglas's instantly-iconic Danny DeVito traffic-stop story from Joe Rogan, before closing on the Massachusetts fight to keep legal weed legal.
In this episode:
Leafly names Blue Lobster its October 2026 Editor's Pick in the Strain of the Year 2026 hunt
Blue Lobster stats: indica-hybrid, 27% THC, lineage of Apples and Bananas × Eye Candy
Bred by Cipher Genetics (Maine Trees) — a Maine breeder with on-brand lobster-themed naming
Leafly describes the effects as "relaxed, euphoric, talkative" and calls it a "precisely dialed indica-hybrid"
Blue Lobster was also a 2025 nominee — the "Susan Lucci of strains" running it back for round two
Michael Douglas tells Joe Rogan (episode released Oct 14, 2026) that Danny DeVito swallowed their joints during a traffic stop after an illegal left-hand turn
Douglas shared the story while promoting his memoir One Helluva Ride; he and DeVito have been friends since 1960s acting school
Massachusetts lawmakers — including the House speaker and Senate president — urge voters to reject a November ballot measure rolling back legalization
Sources:
Leafly — Best Cannabis Strains (Blue Lobster, October 2026 Editor's Pick)
Yahoo — Michael Douglas says Danny DeVito swallowed their joints during a traffic stop
Marijuana Moment — Massachusetts lawmakers urge voters to keep cannabis sales legal (Oct 19, 2026)
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Daisy: —no, no, you don't get it, I ate the whole sandwich IN the parking lot. Like, standing up. Next to my car. Like a raccoon with a job.
Astoria: Daisy. It's eleven in the morning.
Daisy: Astoria, it was a very emotional sandwich.
Astoria: What is an emotional sandwich.
Daisy: It had pickles on it. That's all I'm going to say.
Astoria: Okay. Okay, we're recording, by the way.
Daisy: Oh we are? Hi everybody. I just confessed to raccoon behavior, cool, cool, cool.
Astoria: Great start. We should actually talk about the thing.
Daisy: Right, the thing. The strain. Okay so I have been losing my MIND over this one, because Leafly just dropped their October editor's pick in the whole Strain of the Year hunt, and the name is Blue Lobster.
Astoria: Blue Lobster.
Daisy: Blue. Lobster.
Astoria: Like the crustacean.
Daisy: Like the crustacean, Astoria. Like the thing with the little claws.
Astoria: And this is... a real strain, that real people, in real dispensaries, are asking for by name.
Daisy: With a straight face. Which I could not do. I would walk in there and immediately start giggling.
Astoria: You already do that.
Daisy: Fair.
Astoria: Okay so what IS it. Give me the stats.
Daisy: Indica-hybrid, 27% THC per Leafly, and the lineage is Apples and Bananas crossed with Eye Candy—
Astoria: Hold on, Apples and Bananas is a strain?
Daisy: Apples and Bananas is a strain.
Astoria: Who's naming these. Is it a toddler. Is a toddler in charge.
Daisy: It's giving produce aisle. It's giving smoothie bar.
Astoria: It's giving... "I asked my four-year-old what to call the weed."
Daisy: And then that got bred with Eye Candy, which, okay, cute. And the breeder is Cipher Genetics, out of Maine Trees, which is a Maine breeder.
Astoria: Of course it is.
Daisy: Of COURSE it is. The strain is called Blue Lobster. It's from Maine. The branding is self-aware. I respect it.
Astoria: So we've basically got a lobster-roll strain.
Daisy: We've got a lobster-roll strain. And here's the kicker. Leafly describes the effects as "relaxed, euphoric, talkative."
Astoria: Talkative.
Daisy: TALKATIVE. They literally wrote — and I'm paraphrasing but close — "not slack-jawed, but talkative and activated." They called it a "precisely dialed indica-hybrid."
Astoria: Oh, precisely dialed. Like a sommelier wrote it.
Daisy: It's giving pinot. It's giving tasting notes.
Astoria: Okay but talkative-indica is a real thing I've chased my whole life. Like, I don't want the couch. I want to be ON the couch but also HAVE opinions.
Daisy: Right? That's the dream. Because most indicas, I'm done. I am a throw pillow. I am part of the furniture.
Astoria: You ARE the couch.
Daisy: I AM the couch. But this is apparently the one where you can still, like, finish a sentence.
Astoria: Which, for you, would be a first.
Daisy: Rude!
Astoria: I'm just saying. The whole premise of this podcast is you can't finish a sentence.
Daisy: Okay well now I'm going to try Blue Lobster just to spite you.
Astoria: Good. Science.
Daisy: And here's the OTHER thing I love about this. Blue Lobster was ALSO a nominee last year. So it's like, back for round two.
Astoria: Oh, so it's the Susan Lucci of strains.
Daisy: It's the Susan Lucci of strains! Always a bridesmaid!
Astoria: Someone give Blue Lobster its daytime Emmy.
Daisy: Give it the trophy, Leafly. End the suffering.
Astoria: Okay I want to say something petty.
Daisy: Please.
Astoria: A strain named after a crustacean, bred in Maine, that makes you talkative, is just... weed engineered for the end of a lobster boil.
Daisy: That's EXACTLY what I was going to say.
Astoria: It's for when everybody has a bib on and nobody wants to go home yet.
Daisy: It's for the moment where someone cracks a claw open and goes, "you know what, I love you guys."
Astoria: Right. It's the "I love you guys" strain.
Daisy: It's the "I love you guys" strain. Blue Lobster. 27 percent. Maine. Done.
Astoria: Okay, Daisy, serious question.
Daisy: Serious.
Astoria: Have you ever actually been to Maine.
Daisy: No.
Astoria: Mm.
Daisy: Not even a little.
Astoria: Have you ever had a lobster.
Daisy: One time. At a wedding. And I didn't know how to break it so I just kind of... held it.
Astoria: You held the lobster.
Daisy: I held the lobster. For a WHILE.
Astoria: Okay, I love that this is the person recommending Blue Lobster to the audience.
Daisy: Look. I don't need to have cracked a claw to appreciate the branding. I'm a critic. I'm a curator.
Astoria: You're a raccoon.
Daisy: I'm a RACCO...
13 min
October 18Hash Burger: Leafly's 2025 Strain of the Year & Jameson Williams' $27K Weed Fine Appeal
Daisy brings home Leafly's Strain of the Year and immediately gets removed from the timeline — then the hosts dig into the NFL overturning Jameson Williams' touchdown-celebration fines.
In this episode:
Hash Burger named Leafly's Strain of the Year 2025, bred by California Seed Bank — a Han Solo Hash Plant × Double Burger cross testing 28–35% THC.
Slightly indica-dominant (~60/40), with reported effects of sleepy, relaxed, and euphoric — a classic couch-lock evening flower.
Dominant terpenes: myrcene, caryophyllene, and limonene — mango, pepper, and lemon on paper, skunk and ammonia in the jar.
Aroma reality check: Leafly describes it as skunky, garlicky, earthy, with notes of ammonia, umami, and onion — Daisy's "cheeseburger in a glove box" verdict stands.
The anti-burger paradox: a strain named Hash Burger that makes you physically incapable of making a burger (cereal over the sink was involved).
NFL rescinds two fines totaling $26,867 against Detroit Lions WR Jameson Williams for his Week 2 puff-pass celebration against Buffalo.
Williams' winning appeal argument: "marijuana is legal in some states" — Michigan's adult-use legalization is the backbone of the defense.
Hall-of-Fame LB Derrick Brooks, the appeals officer, rescinded the fines on October 13, 2026 but added a dad-note about celebrating "in the best professional manner possible."
Sources:
Leafly — Hash Burger strain profile
GreenState — Hash Burger: 2025 Strain of the Year
NBC Sports — Jameson Williams wins appeal of smoking celebration fines
WILX — Lions' Jameson Williams wins appeal over celebration fine
The Marijuana Herald — NFL rescinds nearly $27,000 in fines
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Daisy: Okay so I bought it. I bought the burger weed.
Astoria: Daisy.
Daisy: What.
Astoria: You said you were done impulse-buying flower because of the name.
Daisy: This is different.
Astoria: Why.
Daisy: Because Leafly named it Strain of the Year. 2025. It's not an impulse buy, it's RESEARCH.
Astoria: Oh, it's research now.
Daisy: Astoria, it is deeply researched. By them. Not me.
Astoria: Right. You outsourced the research to a website and bought a cheeseburger.
Daisy: A hash burger.
Astoria: What is the difference.
Daisy: Okay so Hash Burger is a cross of two things. Han Solo Hash Plant, which — I know, incredible name — and Double Burger.
Astoria: Who is naming these.
Daisy: Men. The answer is men.
Daisy: And it is slightly indica-dominant, so like a 60/40 lean, which means it's gonna put you on the couch.
Astoria: Mm.
Daisy: And it tests, Astoria, HIGH. Like 28 to 35 percent THC range.
Astoria: That is not a range, that is a spectrum.
Daisy: That is a spectrum, yes.
Astoria: Okay. So you bought a very strong indica named after food. Walk me through what happened.
Daisy: Right so first — the smell.
Astoria: Which is.
Daisy: Okay I had read the Leafly write-up. I had done the homework. They say the aroma is like... skunky. Garlicky. Earthy. With notes of ammonia, umami, and onion.
Astoria: Stop.
Daisy: I am quoting.
Astoria: That is not a cheeseburger. That is a cheeseburger that has been in a glove box.
Daisy: THANK YOU. That is exactly what I said at the dispensary.
Astoria: Out loud?
Daisy: Out loud. To the budtender. And he just goes, "yeah."
Daisy: Like he's heard it. He has heard the glove box line before.
Astoria: He has absolutely heard it.
Daisy: So I get it home, right, I open the jar — Astoria, my apartment immediately smells like someone was fighting in a fast food parking lot.
Astoria: Oh no.
Daisy: My neighbor knocked.
Astoria: Daisy.
Daisy: She was like, are you cooking? And I was like... yes. Spiritually.
Astoria: You said that.
Daisy: I said that.
Astoria: Okay. And then?
Daisy: And then I smoked a very small amount. Because I am a professional.
Astoria: You are not a professional.
Daisy: I am a professional of this.
Astoria: Fair.
Daisy: And twenty minutes later I was lying on the kitchen floor explaining the plot of a movie to my cat.
Astoria: Which movie.
Daisy: I don't remember.
Astoria: You don't remember the movie you explained for forty-five minutes.
Daisy: I don't even know if it was a real movie. I think I may have made up a movie.
Astoria: Oh my god.
Daisy: The reported effects, by the way, are sleepy, relaxed, and euphoric.
Astoria: Which is a polite way to say you will not be a person anymore.
Daisy: You will not be a person anymore, correct.
Astoria: What are the terpenes.
Daisy: You care about terpenes now?
Astoria: I care enough to pretend.
Daisy: Myrcene, caryophyllene, limonene. Which, if I remember right —
Astoria: Mango, pepper, lemon.
Daisy: Look at you.
Astoria: I retain things.
Daisy: Myrcene is the sleepy one, right? That's the couch locker.
Astoria: I think so.
Daisy: Honestly I am not a hundred percent on that. I know it's one of them.
Astoria: Okay.
Daisy: But between the myrcene and the 30-ish percent THC, this strain's whole brand is "you were going to do laundry, and now you are not."
Astoria: That should be on the jar.
Daisy: Here is what killed me, though. The strain is named Hash Burger. It smells like a burger. And its primary effect is making it physically impossible for you to make a burger.
Astoria: It is anti-burger.
Daisy: It is anti-burger! It is a burger that eats your burger ambitions.
Astoria: Okay stop.
Daisy: I'm serious. I had patties in the fridge. I had them.
Astoria: And?
Daisy: Cereal. I ate cereal. Standing up. Over the sink.
Astoria: Of course you did.
Daisy: Like a raccoon with WiFi.
Daisy: And that is my recommendation. Hash Burger. If you want to be put down like a farm an...
11 min
October 11Blue Dream, NY Hits $4B, Massachusetts Question 8 Repeal Vote
Daisy and Astoria break down the Blue Dream strain (and one unfortunate dental appointment), then dig into New York's $4 billion legal cannabis milestone and the Massachusetts ballot measure that could repeal recreational weed.
In this episode:
Blue Dream explained: a sativa-dominant hybrid crossing Blueberry x Haze, popular across North America for over a decade
Reported effects per Leafly user data: creative, euphoric, happy — with dry mouth, dry eyes, and dizziness as the common downsides
Potency can test above 20% THC with very low CBD; Leafly calls it a fan favorite for both novices and veterans
New York cumulative adult-use cannabis sales cross $4.1 billion since the market launched in late 2022, announced at the Oct. 1, 2026 Cannabis Control Board meeting
Q3 2026 alone pulled $512.6 million, with roughly $1.41 billion through the first nine months of 2026
Massachusetts Question 8 on the Nov. 3, 2026 ballot would make it the first state to repeal recreational legalization
Latest UNH poll shows 71% of Massachusetts voters plan to vote NO on repeal, up from 63% in the spring
WBUR pegs the Massachusetts industry at roughly $8 billion; medical cannabis would remain legal regardless of the vote
Sources:
Leafly — Blue Dream strain profile
Marijuana Moment — NY dispensaries cross $4B
Marijuana Herald — NY Q3 2026 record sales
Shanken News Daily — NY on track for record year
WBUR — Massachusetts Question 8 explainer
NORML — MA voters oppose Question 8 repeal
Cannabis Business Times — MA governor urges "no" vote
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Full transcript
Daisy: —and that's when I realized I was explaining the plot of Shrek to my dentist.
Astoria: Daisy. Daisy, you were in the chair?
Daisy: I was in the chair. Mouth open. Just... Shrek.
Astoria: Okay but WHY.
Daisy: Because I had a Blue Dream pen in my car and I thought, you know what, dental anxiety, I'll take the edge off.
Astoria: Oh, the edge. Sure.
Daisy: Listen—
Astoria: You didn't take the edge off, you took the whole knife.
Daisy: I took the drawer.
Astoria: You took the drawer.
Daisy: And here's the thing, Blue Dream is sativa-dominant, right? So it's not supposed to glue you to the couch.
Astoria: Right.
Daisy: It's supposed to be the "clean the garage" strain.
Astoria: And instead you were...
Daisy: Recapping an animated film to a man with a drill.
Astoria: Oh my god.
Daisy: In my defense, he asked a question.
Astoria: He asked you to open wider.
Daisy: That is NOT what I heard.
Astoria: Okay, so this is the strain of the week. Confirmed.
Daisy: Blue Dream. The Toyota Camry of weed.
Astoria: Is that your line or did you steal it.
Daisy: It's... borrowed. From the collective consciousness.
Astoria: Mm.
Daisy: But seriously, Blue Dream is like, if a budtender recommends it, one of two things is happening.
Astoria: Which are?
Daisy: Either they genuinely trust it and they want you to have a good day...
Astoria: Okay.
Daisy: Or they do not want to talk to you anymore and this is the fastest way to end the conversation.
Astoria: That's so mean.
Daisy: It's the truth! It's a cross of Blueberry and Haze.
Astoria: And people say it tastes like a blueberry muffin.
Daisy: They do say that. And I want to push back on that.
Astoria: Why.
Daisy: Because I have never, in my LIFE, smoked anything that tasted like a muffin.
Astoria: Fair.
Daisy: It tastes like berries. Sweet berries. Sure. But muffin implies, like, a crumb.
Astoria: A crumb situation.
Daisy: There is no crumb! There is no butter!
Astoria: Okay, okay.
Daisy: Anyway. Per Leafly, people report it as creative, euphoric, happy.
Astoria: That tracks with the Shrek incident.
Daisy: Very creative. Deeply euphoric. Weirdly happy about dental work.
Astoria: And the downsides?
Daisy: Dry mouth. Dry eyes. Dizziness.
Astoria: Oh, the holy trinity.
Daisy: The holy trinity. And can I just... can I just say something about dry mouth.
Astoria: Please.
Daisy: Why does it feel personal.
Astoria: What?
Daisy: Like, my mouth isn't just dry, it feels... offended.
Astoria: Offended.
Daisy: It feels like my tongue is mad at me.
Astoria: Daisy, your tongue is a muscle, it does not have feelings.
Daisy: Astoria, you don't know my tongue.
Astoria: I don't WANT to know your tongue.
Daisy: Also — can test above 20% THC. Very low CBD.
Astoria: So it hits.
Daisy: It hits. Which is why Leafly calls it a fan favorite for novices AND veterans, which, by the way, is a wild sentence.
Astoria: Why.
Daisy: Imagine any other product being great for total beginners AND experts.
Astoria: Like what.
Daisy: Like, "this surgical scalpel — fantastic for first-time users and professional surgeons."
Astoria: Okay, that's a nightmare.
Daisy: It's a nightmare! But with Blue Dream it's somehow true.
Astoria: Because it's balanced.
Daisy: It's balanced. Cerebral stimulation, full-body relaxation.
Astoria: Hence: Shrek, dentist.
Daisy: Hence Shrek, dentist. Yeah.
Astoria: Okay I want to move us.
Daisy: Move me.
Astoria: New York.
Daisy: What about it.
Astoria: Legal weed sales just crossed four billion dollars.
Daisy: Four BILLION.
Astoria: Four point one, actually. Since the market opened in late 2022.
Daisy: Okay wait. Hold on. I have a question....
10 min
October 04Hash Burger: Leafly's 2025 Strain of the Year & NY Hits $4B
The hosts break down Leafly's 2025 Strain of the Year — Hash Burger — and pivot to New York's legal cannabis market crossing a $4 billion milestone. Expect garlic-onion-ammonia tasting notes and a record-smashing Q3.
In this episode:
Leafly names Hash Burger its 2025 Strain of the Year — an indica-leaning hybrid that averages ~33% THC.
Lineage breakdown: Double Burger (Donny Burger × GMO) crossed with Han Solo Hash Plant (Han Solo Burger × Black Triangle Kush).
Flavor profile: garlic, onion, cheese, and black pepper over a skunky, ammonia-tinted base.
Reported effects per Leafly: body relaxation, mood lift, then gentle sedation; used for anxiety, stress, and depression.
Riff on how strain naming has gone fully off the rails — from Blue Dream and Northern Lights to Hash Burger and GMO.
New York adult-use cannabis sales cross $4 billion program-to-date, announced Oct 2, 2026 at the Cannabis Control Board meeting.
2026 quarterly pace: Q1 $421M → Q2 $479.9M → record Q3 of $512.6M, with YTD sales over $1.4B.
Market shape: 1,981 licensed adult-use businesses, 548 retail dispensaries, 370 CAURD stores, and ~64% of new licenses going to social and economic equity applicants.
Sources:
Leafly: Hash Burger — Strain of the Year 2025
Marijuana Moment: NY dispensaries top $4 billion in recreational sales
The Marijuana Herald: NY cannabis Q3 record $512.6M; $4.1B program-to-date
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Full transcript
Daisy: okay so I'm looking at this bag and the budtender goes "it's called Hash Burger" and I'm like... sir.
Astoria: sir?
Daisy: SIR. I came here to get high, not to order lunch.
Astoria: I mean the name is doing a lot.
Daisy: It's doing EVERYTHING. It's doing cardio.
Astoria: what does that even mean.
Daisy: I don't know Astoria, I'm just vibes right now.
Astoria: Okay but Hash Burger is actually... that's Leafly's strain of the year.
Daisy: Wait, for real?
Astoria: 2025 strain of the year. They crowned a cheeseburger.
Daisy: oh my god.
Astoria: It's a Double Burger crossed with a Han Solo Hash Plant.
Daisy: I'm sorry — Han Solo Hash Plant?
Astoria: Han Solo Hash Plant.
Daisy: So it's a burger... stacked on a burger... stacked on hash.
Astoria: Essentially yes.
Daisy: That's not a strain, that's a dare.
Astoria: it's a dare at a diner.
Daisy: Okay and here's the part that got me. It tests at like 33% THC on average.
Astoria: Wait, average?
Daisy: Average! Some cuts go higher.
Astoria: Daisy, the "strong" shelf at most dispos tops out in the mid-twenties.
Daisy: Right? This thing reads your resume and still lays you down.
Astoria: it reads your resume—
Daisy: It reads your resume, nods politely, and then just... closes your eyes for you.
Astoria: That's a felony.
Daisy: That's a weighted blanket with a felony record.
Astoria: okay you have to tell them what happened.
Daisy: Do I.
Astoria: You do. You absolutely do.
Daisy: okay. So. I had like a crumb.
Astoria: A crumb.
Daisy: A crumb! I didn't know it was 33%, I'm thinking it's a normal Tuesday.
Astoria: You were not thinking.
Daisy: I was not thinking, you are correct. So I take one hit, I go "oh that's nice," and I decide to make a snack.
Astoria: Uh huh.
Daisy: I open the fridge... and I just stand there.
Astoria: for how long.
Daisy: Astoria.
Astoria: How long.
Daisy: I don't want to say.
Astoria: HOW LONG.
Daisy: Forty minutes.
Astoria: forty—
Daisy: Forty minutes of just... reviewing the fridge. Like a landlord.
Astoria: Like a landlord!
Daisy: Clipboard energy. I'm appraising a yogurt.
Astoria: you were appraising a yogurt.
Daisy: And then I close the fridge and I go "I'll think about it."
Astoria: You negotiated with your own groceries.
Daisy: I did! And I lost!
Astoria: Okay, okay. So, in your defense—
Daisy: Thank you.
Astoria: —in your defense, the Leafly write-up says the effects go body relaxation, then mood lift, then gentle sedation.
Daisy: That's exactly what happened. I was relaxed. I was happy. I was... horizontal.
Astoria: In that order.
Daisy: In that order! It's a three-act play.
Astoria: And the reported uses are like, anxiety, stress, depression.
Daisy: Yeah which, respectfully, if I eat a crumb of a cheeseburger and nap for four hours, my anxiety is GONE.
Astoria: it's gone because you are gone.
Daisy: It's gone because I'm GONE.
Astoria: Okay the other thing I wanted to ask you about—
Daisy: Yeah.
Astoria: —the flavor profile. Have you smelled it.
Daisy: Oh I have smelled it.
Astoria: Describe it. For the people.
Daisy: oh it's a top note of garlic...
Astoria: Mmhm.
Daisy: ...a middle note of onion...
Astoria: Classic.
Daisy: ...and a long, lingering finish of cheese and black pepper.
Astoria: you sound like you're reviewing a wine at a steakhouse.
Daisy: And then underneath all of that there's just this... skunk. Little hint of ammonia.
Astoria: Ammonia?
Daisy: Leafly said ammonia! I'm not making this up!
Astoria: Hold on — so you're telling me the strain of the year smells like a burger... with cleaning product.
Daisy: It smells like someone grilled a burger in a laundromat.
Astoria: in a laundromat—
Daisy: And honestly? I respect it.
Astoria: You respect it.
Daisy: I respect the commitment to the bit. They named it Hash Burger, they made it smell like a burger, they made it hit like a burger coma.
Astoria: It's a conceptual piece.
Daisy: It's performance art.
Astoria: Okay but can I push back on something.
Daisy: Please.
Astoria: I think strain names have officially gone off the rails.
Daisy: oh they're gone.
Astoria: Li...
12 min
September 06Gary Payton Strain Review + Congress Delays Hemp THC Ban
This week: a strain review of Gary Payton — the balanced hybrid named after the NBA Hall of Famer — plus the Washington cliffhanger that almost pulled every hemp-derived THC seltzer and gummy off the shelves.
In this episode:
Gary Payton strain spotlight: bred by Powerzzzup Genetics, a cross of Snowman × The Y

Leafly categorizes it as a balanced hybrid, with users reporting giggly, relaxed, euphoric effects and an "even-keeled experience"

Why a chatty-but-chill strain is perfectly on-brand for the trash-talking Sonics point guard

On Sept. 2, 2026, the House passed a Senate-approved funding measure delaying the federal recriminalization of hemp-derived THC products — now headed to President Trump's desk

What was at stake: Delta-8 gummies, THC seltzers, and hemp beverages in gas stations and liquor stores nationwide

Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) tried to block House leadership's agenda in protest of the delay — and lost

Lawmakers are now pivoting from banning hemp THC to figuring out how to regulate it

Key distinction: state-legal dispensary cannabis is untouched — this fight is only about the hemp-derived THC loophole
Sources:
Leafly: Gary Payton strain

Marijuana Moment: Hemp ban delay passes Congress, heads to Trump's desk

Marijuana Moment: Lawmakers turn focus to hemp THC product regulation

Marijuana Moment: Senate votes to delay hemp THC product ban
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Full transcript
Daisy: —and I'm telling you, I opened the jar and my dog LEFT the room.
Astoria: Your dog left the room?
Daisy: Astoria, she got up, she made eye contact, and she walked out. Like she had somewhere to be.
Astoria: Okay that's not a review, that's a restraining order.
Daisy: It was Gary Payton. The strain. Not the basketball player.
Astoria: I was gonna say. I was like, did Gary Payton come to your apartment.
Daisy: "Hey, it's The Glove, let me in, I brought snacks."
Astoria: Wait, is it actually named after him though?
Daisy: Yes! Yes. Powerzzzup Genetics. It's Snowman crossed with The Y, and they named it after Gary Payton, the Sonics point guard, Hall of Famer, guy who trash-talked people until they cried.
Astoria: Huh. And what's it supposed to do to you?
Daisy: Okay so Leafly has it as a balanced hybrid. Not a knockout, not a racehorse. People report giggly, relaxed, euphoric. They literally use the phrase "even-keeled experience."
Astoria: Even-keeled. Named after Gary Payton.
Daisy: I KNOW.
Astoria: The most un-even-keeled man in professional sports history.
Daisy: Right? The man was NOT even-keeled. He was famously... keeled.
Astoria: He was fully keeled.
Daisy: But here's the thing, and this is my hot take, the terpenes actually check out. Because it's chatty but chill. It's a strain that makes you WANT to talk. Which is on brand.
Astoria: Okay that's fair. A weed that makes you run your mouth in a good-natured way. That IS Gary Payton.
Daisy: That's The Glove.
Astoria: So back up. Your dog left the room.
Daisy: My dog left the room. Because I opened the jar and I went, "OH." Out loud. In an empty apartment. To no one.
Astoria: You scared her with your enthusiasm.
Daisy: I scared her with my enthusiasm for a jar.
Astoria: Daisy.
Daisy: I know.
Astoria: You're a grown woman.
Daisy: I'm a grown woman who yells at cannabis.
Astoria: Okay and then what, you smoked it, and did the even-keeled thing happen or did you become Gary Payton?
Daisy: So this is where I have to be honest. I don't actually know what a normal hybrid is supposed to feel like anymore.
Astoria: What do you mean.
Daisy: Like. I've been smoking for so long that "balanced" doesn't register. Someone hands me a balanced hybrid and I'm like, is this doing anything, is this a placebo, am I dead.
Astoria: Oh no, the tragedy of the seasoned professional.
Daisy: I'm serious! I don't have a control group anymore. My baseline is broken.
Astoria: So you can't even tell us if it worked.
Daisy: I can tell you I giggled. I can tell you I ate a sleeve of Ritz crackers. I can tell you I texted my mother, which I never do sober.
Astoria: Wait, wait, what did you text your mom.
Daisy: I texted her, "you were right about the crockpot."
Astoria: What?
Daisy: I don't know! I don't know what it means! I don't own a crockpot! She hasn't responded!
Astoria: Oh my god she's staring at that text right now trying to figure out if you're okay.
Daisy: She's gonna call my sister. My sister's gonna have to do a wellness check.
Astoria: Because of Gary Payton.
Daisy: Because of a balanced hybrid.
Astoria: Okay okay okay, so, giggly, relaxed, euphoric. Check, check, check. It's on the label. It did what it said.
Daisy: It did what it said. Which, honestly? Refreshing.
Astoria: That IS refreshing. Because half the time you buy something and it says "creative energizing daytime" and you wake up nine hours later with a pizza box on your chest.
Daisy: "Creative and energizing." I made a pizza appear. That's creative.
Astoria: You manifested a pizza.
Daisy: I manifested a pizza. That's a daytime strain.
Astoria: Okay so the rec is, if you can find it, Gary Payton, it's a real strain, it's not made up, it's out there in dispensaries, and it does the thing.
Daisy: It does the thing. And say his name out loud when you light it. Show some respect.
Astoria: "For Gary."
Daisy: For Gary.
Astoria: Okay. Speaking of respect. Or lack thereof.
Daisy: Uh oh.
Astoria: Did you see what happened in Washington this week?
Daisy: Astoria I'm gonna be honest with you, I have been actively not looking at the news.
Astoria: Okay well, buckle up, because this one is actually about your fridge.
Daisy: My fridge?
Astoria: Your THC seltzer, specifically.
Daisy: Not my little cans.
Astoria: Your little cans almost got illegal-ed this week.
Daisy: WHAT.
Astoria: So, September 2nd, the House passed the funding bill the Senate had already passed, and tucked inside it was language to delay the federal ban on hemp-derived THC products. It's on Trump's desk to sign.
Daisy: Wait....
11 min
August 30Weed Beats Cigarettes: Gallup Poll, CDC Survey & Blue Dream Strain
A historic scoreboard flip: for the first time in Gallup polling history, more U.S. adults are smoking marijuana than tobacco cigarettes. We mark the moment, roast the CDC's proposed survey wording, imagine your mailman's new route, and close with a love letter to Blue Dream.
In this episode:
Gallup poll finds more U.S. adults now smoke marijuana than cigarettes, with cannabis smoking more than doubling since 2013 and cigarette use at an all-time low
The CDC's proposal to add a marijuana question to a major federal health survey — with the literal wording "for fun or to get high" vs. medical
State officials say USPS, FedEx, and UPS could end up delivering medical cannabis under federal rescheduling
Strain of the day: Blue Dream, the sativa-dominant hybrid cross of Blueberry × Haze born in California
Why Blue Dream's balanced high skews energizing with cerebral stimulation and full-body relaxation, not couch-lock
Its sweet berry flavor, THC topping 20% with low CBD, and Leafly's "fan favorite of both novice and veteran cannabis consumers" status
Why medical patients reach for Blue Dream for stress, anxiety, and depression
Sources:
Leafly: Blue Dream strain
Marijuana Moment: Cannabis smoking outpaces cigarettes in US, Gallup poll shows
Marijuana Moment: CDC wants medical cannabis question on federal health survey
Marijuana Moment: USPS could deliver medical cannabis under rescheduling, state officials say
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Full transcript
Daisy: —okay so I have to tell you something and you have to promise not to look at me like I'm insane.
Astoria: I make no such promise. Go.
Daisy: I microwaved my weed.
Astoria: You WHAT.
Daisy: In my defense—
Astoria: There's a defense?
Daisy: In my defense, I read one time that you can... reactivate it? Like leftover pasta?
Astoria: Daisy. Weed is not leftover pasta.
Daisy: I know that NOW, Astoria.
Astoria: What did it smell like.
Daisy: Like a house fire in a Bath and Body Works.
Astoria: Oh my god.
Daisy: My smoke detector gave me a standing ovation. It was like, finally, content.
Astoria: Okay, we have to move on or I'm gonna cry. What is even happening in the world today.
Daisy: Oh, big news actually. Weed just beat cigarettes.
Astoria: Beat them at what, a footrace?
Daisy: At being smoked! In America! Gallup poll — more adults are smoking weed than cigarettes now.
Astoria: Wait, seriously?
Daisy: Cigarette use is at an all-time low, and cannabis smoking has more than doubled since like 2013.
Astoria: That's actually kind of historic.
Daisy: It IS historic. The Marlboro Man just got dunked on by a guy in Rick and Morty socks.
Astoria: The visual.
Daisy: Sixty years of cigarettes being cool in every movie. Sixty years of weed being the punchline. Scoreboard.
Astoria: Okay but hold on — I feel like you're leaving out that vapes exist. Kids aren't picking up Camels, they're huffing a USB stick.
Daisy: Fair. Fair pushback.
Astoria: I just don't want us to be like, weed WON, when really cigarettes lost because they got replaced by a different lung crime.
Daisy: A different lung crime. That's the tagline.
Astoria: But yeah, no, it's still wild. First time in Gallup history the joint beats the cig.
Daisy: Big Tobacco is having a midlife crisis. It's out here buying a convertible. It's dating someone named Chelsea.
Astoria: Stop.
Daisy: It's like, "I still got it." And weed is like, buddy. You do not.
Astoria: Okay, related — did you see the CDC thing?
Daisy: No, what CDC thing.
Astoria: The CDC wants to add a weed question to one of the big annual federal health surveys.
Daisy: Oh that's actually smart, that's data.
Astoria: Sure, but the wording, Daisy. The wording.
Daisy: What's the wording.
Astoria: They want to ask if you're using it — and I quote — "for fun or to get high" versus medical.
Daisy: "For fun or to get high."
Astoria: That is the literal proposed wording. From the CDC.
Daisy: Those are the same thing! Those are the same option!
Astoria: I know!
Daisy: "Sir, please clarify. Is this for FUN or to get HIGH." Sir. Yes.
Astoria: Yes. The answer is yes.
Daisy: Imagine a CDC surveyor calling my uncle. On a landline.
Astoria: Your uncle has a landline?
Daisy: My uncle IS a landline. He's beige and he yells.
Daisy: And they're like, sir, medical or recreational. And he goes... yes.
Astoria: Click.
Daisy: Click. Data collected.
Astoria: Truly rigorous science we're doing.
Daisy: Hey, don't drag the CDC, they're trying.
Astoria: I'm not dragging! I'm just saying, whoever wrote "for fun or to get high" needs to be in the room where it happens.
Daisy: They ARE in the room. That's the problem.
Daisy: Okay wait, one more news thing and then I have a recommendation.
Astoria: Go.
Daisy: There's talk that if weed gets rescheduled federally, USPS could deliver medical cannabis. Like, and FedEx, UPS, the whole crew.
Astoria: Get OUT.
Daisy: State officials floated it.
Astoria: The mailman?
Daisy: The mailman.
Astoria: My mailman is a very sweet older gentleman named — well, I'm not gonna say his name, but he does not know what's coming.
Daisy: He's about to have the most interesting route in America.
Astoria: He's gonna be so popular.
Daisy: Every dog on the block is gonna be like, why does Dave smell AMAZING today.
Astoria: Why is Dave GLOWING.
Daisy: And you know the tracking is gonna be cursed. "Out for delivery." Since Tuesday.
Astoria: Since Tuesday!
Daisy: "Package delayed due to weather." It's SUNNY, USPS. What are you doing.
Astoria: "Package acquired by processing facility." Sure it was.
Daisy: Processing facility. Sure. That's what we're calling Kevin's break room now.
Astoria: I would like to push back on one thing though.
Daisy: Push.
Astoria: I actually think if USPS handled it, it'd be more reliable than half the ...
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