“Lemon Skunk might smell like a lemony skunk.” Others might be pop culture references or “legacy” names that have been used for decades as plants are re-propagated year after year. “Some of the names are useful and descriptive,” Ferrarese said recently.
Some are named for what they smell or taste like. Rino Ferrarese, executive vice president for Verano’s north region, explained that strains are named by the breeders, who either work for or sell their seeds to growers like Verano. Verano’s website says the company grows more than 160 individual strains across its nationwide operations, and plants at the Rocky Hill facility are labeled with well known monikers, not the specific-to-Connecticut trade names. “Connecticut’s program is fairly unique relative to the state’s requirement that cannabis operators rename legacy strains before sale,” said Grace Bondy, a spokesperson CT Pharma parent company Verano, which operates in 13 states including the largest cannabis cultivation and processing site in Connecticut. It’s a regulation that may be unique in the United States. “Anybody who is not a regulator or a politician, anybody who actually consumes cannabis realizes how silly this is, and really how big of a disconnect all this really is.” His site tracks names of cannabis strains. “I'm pretty sure everybody thinks these names are silly,” said Paul Kirchberg of Milford, founder of. Instead of “Purple Haze” or “Sour Diesel,” you might buy “Auralex” or “Baccaden.” The name of every cannabis strain sold in Connecticut must be registered with and approved by the state, and that registry lists hundreds if not thousands of product names, and they are all unique to Connecticut. In fact, the name of the strain of cannabis bought in Connecticut will be totally different from the name of the cannabis bought in Massachusetts, even though the plant itself might be nearly identical.Ĭonnecticut law stipulates that “the names cannot be identical to or confusingly similar to any existing non-cannabis product, cannot appeal to children, and cannot be obscene or indecent,” according to Kaitlyn Krasselt, spokesperson for the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection.
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