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Snow Dream—A Golden State, California, summer 2023

Published on July 10, 2023 · Last updated August 14, 2023
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92 points out of 100

Summer, 2023

Price: $60 per 3.5 grams

Genetics: Mochi Gelato x Zkittlez

Dense purple, green, and orange buds show off this unique cultivar’s iridescent trichomes. Snow Dream’s lineage of Mochi Gelato x Zkittlez offers a 1.92% terpene profile that’s heavy in the trans-nerolidol. This rare terpene gives the strong flavor profile of lemongrass, rose, and jasmine undertones. It’s sweet, complex, and gassy on the palate. Other terpenes in this bud include limonene, caryophyllene, linalool, myrcene, and humulene.

The dry hit tastes like a snow cone. Upon lighting, it feels smooth on the throat. The growing processes at A Golden State are meticulous: This bud drinks water from the Cascade Mountains. The result is a creamy, smooth, and pungent draw. The effect gifts a strong body high and sinking, sultry, sedative experience. Along with a complex flavor profile, it clocks in at 32.6% THC, and has become a fan favorite of A Golden State’s connoisseurs for its potency and creating a purple-hued, dreamy chillscape.

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Lindsey Bartlett
Lindsey Bartlett
Lindsey Carmela Bartlett is an author, photographer, and social media editor who has documented the evolutionary cannabis industry for the past decade. Born in Denver, Colorado, today she resides in Los Angeles, California. Bartlett is a current contributor at Forbes and Insider and a two-time judge at The Emerald Cup. Her career includes roles at The Denver Post and The Cannabist, which was the first cannabis publication ever founded by a Pulitzer Prize-winning daily newspaper. Her reporting grew to include an industry focus at MJBizDaily and Hemp Industry Daily, where Bartlett led social media coverage for MJBizCon, the largest cannabis business conference series in the world. She has taken on writing, social media, and editing roles at Weedmaps, Green Entrepreneur, High Times, Westword, Marijuana Moment, MJBizDaily, Leafly, and Merry Jane. Bartlett is a cannabis media fellow alumni of the UVM Pace Plant Biology program.
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