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My Favorite Strains: Girl Scout Cookies, Source: Original Photography by Phe HarphaIt’s that time of year where groups of Girl Scouts are everywhere trying to earn their badges and sell us all those boxes of delicious cookies. Those sweet little cookies have become part of our culture, but now a new type of “cookie” is emerging.

In cannabis culture, we now picture a sweet, earthy tasting, beautiful, yet powerful flower (named after the delicate cookies themselves), Girl Scout Cookies. This is a bud dense with sparkling trichomes… long, thick orange hairs crawling out from between the cracks and hues of purples… greens and yellows popping out at every new angle. Every little bud packs a complex terpene, or taste and smell profile that can be experienced over and over again with each preparation.

However, because there have been many phenotypes, or variations of the original strain (starting with the forum cut, to two other very popular strains of GSC – Thin Mint and Platinum Cookies – and newer Grand Daddy Purp cuts, named Candyland and  Phantom Cookies), these flavor profiles and physical attributes are tweaked with each hybridization or breeding.

I am lucky enough to have come across a perfectly grown and naturally cured harvest of the forum cut of Girl Scout Cookies, at my local dispensary. This specific phenotype is one to definitely look out for, and ask your favorite bud-tender about, as it is considered the original” cut of the Girl Scout Cookies strain, derived from an F1 (or mother) Durban Poison x OG Kush. Although, there is some controversy with this strain, as its original genetics have not been leaked, and some speculate a Cherry Pie/Cherry Kush cross is in there somewhere also.

My Favorite Strains: Girl Scout Cookies, Source: http://swamis420.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/girl_scout_cookies_indica.jpgThis cut of GSC packs a punch cerebrally and gives a happy, euphoric high that can range from easily meditative, to a more elated state. The taste, as it first touches your tongue, is that of a creamy, sweet, “green,” with an almost toasted taste of lavender becoming more apparent in the aftertaste.

I personally use this strain frequently for pain relief and social anxiety. Though it is not an actual pain reliever in my opinion, it provides the mental strength to overcome the pain, without the fogginess of an Indica-dominant strain. If vaporized in higher doses, or in a concentrated form, such as shatter or wax, these euphoric effects can only be enhanced, even to the state of talkativeness or the giggles (as I’ve witnessed with first time GSC indulgers and in myself).

Overall, I get a relaxed, care-free and motivated state of mind from this specific Girl Scout Cookies strain-forum cut, and feel it can be enjoyed during any time of day, due to the balanced nature of its hybridization. That being said, I personally use it mostly as my wake-and-bake go-to in the mornings. It never has a “drag-me-down” feeling, even as a post-high effect, and I find it rather helpful with yoga and morning meditative practices also.

At the end of each session, I affirm that Girl Scout Cookies undoubtedly remains one of my favorite of the more popular strains, due to its wide array of tastes, smells, effects and medicinal quality.

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