Talk:Kush (cannabis)

How about yung joc saying "blow the kush in they face" maybe kush means sperm

it is probably a reference to a shotgun Ettiesniffs 03:23, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

OG Kush should indeed be merged as a sub category under herb.  Although a fairly new term it is widely recognized throughout the West Coast as referring to a strain of Cannabis.

Minnehaha 18:06, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

i agree. I can almost guarantee without any doubt, that if kush is ever mentioned in a popular culture reference, it is almost certainly in reference to the cannabis strain. there is no ambiguity about the term. it either means cannabis, or it literally refers to the region in asia known as the Hindu Kush. there exists no usage of the word kush as slang, unless you consider the title of the strain as being a slang usage of the actual word, in which case the only slang usage refers to the cannabis strain.

also, chemdawg, og kush, sour diesel, diesel, etc are all not CONFIRMED as kush strains. Dawg, which was the original name of the strain that is now more commonly referred to as chemdaw, was first developed from bagseed. the bag that the seed came from was a large amount of cannabis that was sold to the originator of the strain at a grateful dead concert (i think). the guy who bought the bag knew he bought some gold, and so searched and found several seeds, which he grew out and mothered. the name "chemdaw" refers to the fact that this strain is generally difficult to grow using organic soil amendments and generally requires the use of CHEMical fertilizers and stabilizers to produce a high yielding high quality crop. there exist many conflicting stories about the history of chemdawg/og kush/sour diesel. one story tells that some east coast growers got there hands on a clone of chemdawg and crossed it with Massachusetts's super skunk. this story is out of the cannabible. another story goes that chemdawg, og and sourd are all actually the same strain. the story basically says that og kush and sour diesel are actually just cuttings from a chemdawg plant, and that the east coast growers renamed the strain to sour diesel because they believed that the name "chemdawg" would deter people from buying it. the west coast version, as the story goes, was renamed to og kush, because the originator, who goes by various handles online usually chemdawg, believed that there were some hindu kush genetics in chemdawg.

the point is that, kush or not, og kush, sour diesel, and chemdawg are all bagseed. no one really knows what the actual genetics are because no one has done any dna testing to determine the actual genetics of the strains. there is obviously a possibility that og kush, chemdawg and sour d are real kush strains, but there also exists the possibility that none of them are even closely related to hindu kush.

heck, most growers call sour d a sativa, and many people would call chemdawg a sativa, but most people call og kush an indica. hindu kush is an indica.

i believe that there should be a separate subsection for og kush, as there is not enough information to classify it as a true kush

also, when rappers refer to kush they are either referring to purple kush, which flooded california before the recent huge rise in medical marijuana, or og kush. purple kush was a strain that the hells angels and other gangs popularized along with white widow, hashplant, and orange krush.

btw, kush strains are good, and chemdawg strains are also good, but the best strains are sativas like kali myst and ak-47. they can achieve thc concentrations in the high 20% range and almost reaching 30 percent thc by weight. TheRealGordonliu 02:13, 16 April 2007 (UTC)