New Grower [OPINION] Does strain name matter?

[medic grower]

Nowadays its all bout the Hype. Give a famous Rapper or Dj or Actor Your Strrain and let them tell bout it or rap bout it. Loo at the Cookies Hype it all began with a Few Rappers from the Bay Area.

 

[TimeTraveler]

I'm not concerned with the names like "crack" or "meth" affecting The Cause(tm). When have marijuana haters and prohibitionists EVER let the truth come between them and their beliefs? It wouldn't matter if every strain was sold as "Cannabis Variety #X: THC %Y CBD%Z", they'd still argue smoking it would make you eat babies, rape cars, and steal women, and Nancy Grace would have a special soon after called, "Marijuana: Evil Drug or Worst Drug?"

As for me, some of the names are stupid, sure, and some I would openly mock with the dispensary worker selling it, but otherwise I actually like it as part of the marijuana culture. The names that really make me shake my head in disgust are "Sativex" and "Marinol". Yay, our beloved plant turned into a chemically extracted, for-profit, copyright-protected trade good devoid of any soul or love.

As long as someone is debating buying strains with names like "Purple Dank Balls" and "Devil Shit Kush", there's hope that the culture is alive and well.

 

[dankstyle J]

I want nothing to with anything having to do with street drugs that harm and kill why not give a new herb strain a name that showcases it's. Medical properties or highlights

 

[GoAuto6]

Okay so you don't like the name? what about the people that do like off the wall names ? Do they have to change because you or you or him and her don't like? If you don't like the name don't buy the strain!!!! and for a bunch of freedom of speacher's and what not's you sure all want to push your feelings on every one and expect them all to change!!! get over it it's just a name...

 

[Corgy]

Me too.......

Suppose some folks think that provocative marketing and "there's no such thing as bad publicity", and it might attract a young exploring audience.

Hey man, what have you going?

Some purple heroin!

Really, I just got 10 angel dust groupies soaking!

That's cool, I've been looking at the un-dead zombie kush from Pol Pot skulls, sounds like a decent potent yeilder, don't you think?

Well, I heard that Hidler Fumes has got some even better Zyklon-C smokers back in stock.........!

Bah, have you been vaping the L.S.D BLACK DEATH from the jar not quite cured yet..... Its the schoolgirl hooties that back in stock, as well as the Krystal Tet offensive..... You get it dude?


And so on........ Oh well, different folks different strokes...... Legalisation is around the corner no sweat.

 

[dankstyle J]

Wasn't trying to change anything just questioning reasons why something is what it is not tripping I'm just a small med farmer one guy not buying something isn't going to affect bottom money profits this seed company still gonna be rich there products will sell

 

[TimeTraveler]

I assure you, if the name is that distasteful Corgy they'll disappear. People are more than welcome to name their beans "Pol Pot-Head" and "Third Reich Dankenfuhrer", but they won't move them. The rest of us are more than welcome to pay them only in stiff middle fingers....

Unless you've got some weird compulsion to buy anything and everything you see, regardless of utility or name. In which case, I'm sorry to hear about your crippling disability, but that's still no good reason to squash the culture. It'll prune itself.

 

[TimeTraveler]

You don't see "Holocaust O's" (6 Million Casualties of FLAVOR) in the cereal aisle, do you? Someone out there might be tasteless enough to try it with some strains, doesn't mean they'll get anywhere.

 

[blue]

I'm really influenced by a name! Of course, it would need to have some banging reviews or a recommendation from a smoker i trust knows what they're talking about

But ... "Ghost Train Haze" ... "Fire X C99" ... "Girl Scout Cookies " "Super Natural OG Kush" (Give!) ... lol need i say more! They get me every time!

I bought "Strawberry Banana" based on the name and the Breeder - I've got no idea why i thought it would be a tasy smoke lol who wants strawberrys AND bananas in their smoke!

 

[TaNg]

It's the risqué names I don't get like naming a harmless cannabis strain after a life destroying drug like Crystal Meth or Crack...where do we draw the line on decency? Will there be strains in the future with names like 'baby killer' or 'I hope your mom gets cancer' . A name is just words but when they can cause offence it should be frowned upon whether you like the name or not.