{"id":39537,"date":"2016-09-20T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/sour-diesel-marijuana-strain-history\/"},"modified":"2016-09-20T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T14:00:00","slug":"sour-diesel-marijuana-strain-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/health\/sour-diesel-marijuana-strain-history\/","title":{"rendered":"How Sour Diesel Grew Out of Giuliani-Era NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLTIh6Cj-idHh5_lD09QAdOeJgrIJjNhU9\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-f2a896fd-44b9-f914-a774-01a49cc339b5\">In this episode of <\/span><em>Seed to Strain<\/em>, MERRY JANE spotlights the development of one of the most popular sativa strains ever, <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/goods\/sour-diesel\">Sour Diesel<\/a>. Many daytime smokers who want to be productive favor&#xA0;the bud, which is known for its long-lasting cerebral high and jolt of energy.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-f2a896fd-44b9-f914-a774-01a49cc339b5\">Sour Diesel developer AJ, who refers to himself not as its creator but its &#x201C;servant and keeper,&#x201D; takes us back to the beginning, in the early &#x2019;90s in NYC, when good weed was an expensive rarity and Mayor Rudy Giuliani&#x2019;s Quality of Life\/Broken Windows policing strategy made smoking in public extremely risky. Watch&#xA0;the video to learn about the origins of&#xA0;Sour Diesel<\/span><span>&#xA0;and its name (which has nothing to do with its taste).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-f2a896fd-44b9-f914-a774-01a49cc339b5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/culture\/video-original-seed-to-strain-pinkman-goo\">Seed to Strain<\/a><\/span> is a MERRY JANE original series spotlighting the behind-the-scenes people and worlds of <a href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/culture\/elevate-your-in-home-grow\">growing cannabis<\/a>. Subscribe to MERRY JANE on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/MERRYJANE\" rel=\"nofollow\">YouTube<\/a> to catch all of our original videos on cannabis culture.<\/p>\n<p><em>Special thanks to&#xA0;associate producer Sam Caroll.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developer AJ shares the bud\u2019s origin story on \u201cSeed to Strain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3037],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Sour Diesel Grew Out of Giuliani-Era NYC - Merry Jane<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/health\/sour-diesel-marijuana-strain-history\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Sour Diesel Grew Out of Giuliani-Era NYC - 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