Featured MMJ Strain: Girl Scout Cookies
Girl Scout Cookies, also known as GSC or Cookies, is a potent bay area strain. This cup winning hybrid is notorious for its euphoric effects coupled with its high cannabinoid content, as well as its unique terpene profile. Girl Scout Cookies tends to make patients feel happy, relaxed, euphoric, creative, and uplifted. Medicinally, Girl Scout Cookies is well known for intense stress relief, combatting depression, elevating mood, relieving pain (analgesic), relieving insomnia, and stimulating a weak or nonexistent appetite.
Girl Scout Cookies is a cross between two notoriously potent and tasty strains: OG Kush and Durban Poison. From OG Kush, the strain gets its stress relieving and analgesic properties, while from the Durban poison, the strain gets its energetic sativa-like effects. GSC exists in many phenotypes, which are physical expressions of the genetic information stored in the seed. The genetic blend behind cookies is so well done that the strain has become famous across the world, winning many awards including Cannabis Cups.
Girl Scout Cookies has a delicious and complex terpene profile. From the OG Kush, significant amounts of limonene can be detected just by sniffing a batch. However, many other terpenes exist that work with the limonene to create the unique aroma of Girl Scout Cookies, particularly B-Carophyllene, B-Myrcene, linalool, and in smaller levels, A-Pinene. Overall, this blend of terpenes brings out a flavor that almost resembles cookies or cake with a bakery-type savory sweetness. One can expect overtones of fuel or skunk smell, but not without the cookie undertone.
Included below are three reviews of Girl Scout Cookies which MMJ patients posted on Leafly, a marijuana strain network for medical marijuana patients.
“Exceptional herb, now firmly placed in my Top 3 go-to meds for pain relief, nausea & lack of appetite, and insomnia… v good pain relief, reduction in nausea with increase in appetite, and an overall sense of engaged well-being.” -nagchampa
“I have been a type 1 diabetic for 22 years and suffer from pain peripheral neuropathy and gastrointestinal problems and this girl treats them all day or night.” -aaronburks
“I would recommend this for daytime use to counteract headaches and nausea.” -palewoodendoor