This week we dig into Leafly's 2025 Strain of the Year — Hash Burger — and a long-overdue legalization deal out of Virginia. One smells like a 2am cheeseburger having a crisis; the other is five years late to its own party.
Hash Burger named Leafly Strain of the Year 2025 — an indica-leaning hybrid testing around 33% THC on average
The absurd lineage: Double Burger (Donny Burger × GMO) crossed with Han Solo Hash Plant (Han Solo Burger × Black Triangle Kush), descended from Chemdawg
Bred by Respect & Mrs. Respect of California Seed Bank with Skunk House Genetics' Skunk Master Flex
Leafly's flavor description: "a heaping helping of umami: garlic, onion, cheese, and pepper atop a skunky, ammonia-tinted base"
Reported effects: sleepy, relaxed, euphoric body relaxation — classic couch-lock; 4.7/5 user rating
Virginia lawmakers and Gov. Abigail Spanberger reach a deal to legalize recreational cannabis sales through the state budget, targeted for June 2026
Virginia legalized personal possession in 2021 but never built a legal retail market — this closes the loophole
Timing note: the deal lands the same month the DEA opens an expanded rescheduling hearing on June 29
Leafly: Hash Burger — Strain of the Year 2025
Marijuana Moment: Virginia cannabis sales legalization deal reachedSubscribe: mncannabishub.com
Daisy: —no but that's the thing, I genuinely thought it was a sandwich.
Astoria: You thought what was a sandwich.
Daisy: Hash Burger. I saw it on the menu at the dispensary and I was like, oh cute, the budtender's moonlighting.
Astoria: Daisy. It was at the WEED store.
Daisy: I know that NOW.
Astoria: Oh my god.
Daisy: In my defense, it's called Hash Burger. Like, the entire name is two foods.
Astoria: Hash is a weed thing.
Daisy: Hash is a breakfast thing.
Astoria: Okay sure, in your house.
Daisy: In every house! Hash browns? Corned beef hash?
Astoria: Corned beef— we are not doing this.
Daisy: We are doing this. Because this is Leafly's Strain of the Year. For 2025.
Astoria: Right.
Daisy: And it is named, officially, after a burger.
Astoria: It's named after a lineage of burgers, actually. Which I think is funnier.
Daisy: Wait, what?
Astoria: So I looked this up. Hash Burger is a cross of Double Burger and Han Solo Hash Plant.
Daisy: Han Solo Hash Plant.
Astoria: And Double Burger is Donny Burger crossed with GMO.
Daisy: I'm sorry, Donny Burger?
Astoria: Donny Burger.
Daisy: That's a guy. That's somebody's uncle.
Astoria: That's a guy who runs a body shop in New Jersey.
Daisy: Donny Burger has opinions about the Mets.
Astoria: Donny Burger has a very specific way he wants his lawn cut.
Daisy: Okay so the family tree is Donny Burger, Han Solo Burger, Double Burger, and then Hash Burger.
Astoria: Correct.
Daisy: The breeders just gave up. They were tired. They ordered off a menu.
Astoria: They were like, what if the strain... was also dinner.
Daisy: And then they bred it with Black Triangle Kush at some point in there, which sounds like a band that opens for a band you actually wanted to see.
Astoria: Stop.
Daisy: I'm just saying, the Black Triangle Kush guys are LOADING in right now while everyone's at the merch table.
Astoria: Okay but here's the thing that I need you to sit with.
Daisy: Okay.
Astoria: This strain tests around thirty-three percent THC.
Daisy: Oh no.
Astoria: On average. Some cuts are higher.
Daisy: That's not a strain, that's a CONSEQUENCE.
Astoria: That's a life event.
Daisy: Thirty-three percent. For an indica-leaning hybrid named after a sandwich.
Astoria: It's not a sandwich—
Daisy: It's CALLED a burger, Astoria.
Astoria: A burger is not a sandwich, that's a whole separate episode.
Daisy: You're right. Tabled. Tabled for later.
Astoria: But yes, thirty-three percent THC, indica-leaning. The Leafly write-up basically calls it couch-lock.
Daisy: So it gets you horizontal.
Astoria: Horizontal.
Daisy: And it tastes like a burger.
Astoria: Okay so I need to read you the actual flavor description because I cannot do it justice.
Daisy: Please.
Astoria: Leafly describes it as, quote, "a heaping helping of umami: garlic, onion, cheese, and pepper atop a skunky, ammonia-tinted base."
Daisy: ...ammonia-tinted.
Astoria: Ammonia-tinted.
Daisy: They put that in print. About a product. That people pay money for.
Astoria: And it has a four-point-seven out of five user rating.
Daisy: STOP.
Astoria: People LOVE it.
Daisy: People love the ammonia burger.
Astoria: People love the funk.
Daisy: Okay so this is the most American plant we have ever talked about on this show.
Astoria: Hands down.
Daisy: It's named after a burger, it smells like garlic and cheese, it gets you horizontal, and it's the strain of the YEAR.
Astoria: It's basically a Super Bowl ad.
Daisy: It's a Fourth of July parade in a jar.
Astoria: Stop.
Daisy: Okay so I have to tell you what happened.
Astoria: Oh god.
Daisy: Because I tried it.
Astoria: You tried Hash Burger.
Daisy: I tried Hash Burger. Last Tuesday.
Astoria: On a TUESDAY?
Daisy: Yes, Astoria, on a Tuesday, like a normal woman with a normal life.
Astoria: You are not a normal woman with a normal life.
Daisy: That's fair. So I get home, I have my little setup, I'm feeling cute, I'm feeling powerful.
Astoria: Mm.
Daisy: And I take ONE hit. One. Hit.
Astoria: At thirty-three percent.
Daisy: I did not know that yet! I did not have the research brief, Astoria, I am not a journalist.
Astoria: Oh my god.
Daisy: So I take one hit, and immediately the flavor hits, and I'm like, why does my mouth taste like a sandwich.
Astoria: Burger.
Daisy: Why does my mouth taste like a BURGER.
Daisy: And not even a good burger! It tasted like a burger that was going through something.
Astoria: A burger with personal problems.
