Super Gremlin

Super Gremlin is a modern hybrid that shows up from more than one grower, and the cuts don't test the same: batches range from the mid-20s all the way into the mid-30s for THC. If potency is your deciding factor, read the label on the jar in front of you rather than assuming every batch is equal. The genetics check out: Super Gremlin was bred by Bloom Seed Co as a cross of Animal Cookies and Sherbanger, which explains both the funk and the weight. Animal Cookies brings the heavy, cookies-style body; Sherbanger brings the gassy-sweet nose. What comes through consistently is a funky, gassy profile with a sweet edge underneath, the kind of smell that makes you re-seal the jar quickly if you're trying to be discreet. The effect is a fast-arriving euphoria that gets a little silly at the front, then eases into a heavy, relaxed body feel. People who like a strain that starts social and ends on the couch tend to come back to it. At the top of its range, newer consumers should take it slow; a single bowl of a hot batch will do plenty. Super Gremlin is the kind of strain that ends up as somebody's regular order without ever getting much hype: dependable weight, loud jar, no pretense.

Super Gremlin comes on quickly, with a bright, giggly euphoria in the first ten minutes that makes it easy to talk and easy to laugh. Over the next half hour the body feel catches up and gets heavy, loosening muscles and slowing things down. At the high end of its THC range it can tip into couch-lock, so plan accordingly. It winds down slowly rather than dropping off a cliff.