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Leafly Nation, did you know weed can smell and taste like coconuts? 

If you’ve just fallen out of a tree and are coming up to speed on the latest in cannabis—come along with us. Here’s a tour of the best coconut weed strains and products perfuming the zeitgeist.

Coconut Horchata

(Courtesy Dubz Garden)
(Courtesy Dubz Garden)

Break out the Venn Diagram—weed can have nutty, creamy, sweet, vanilla, and even spicy tropical notes all in one. The first wave was the Horchata strain—often attributed to Compound Genetics, as well as Wyeast Genetics. Now we have Coconut Horchata, a Dubz Garden brand “classic staple.” It’s available as flower and in a collaboration with Sacramento pre-roll makers Sluggers. Around since at least 2022, reviewer The Fire Scale states, “the smoke could not be any more creamy throughout the entire process.”

Coconut Horchata is on sale across California, including at Purple Star MD in SF.

Coconut Milk

The great thing about creating new strains from a banger pool of parents is that they get to exist in the context of all the strains in which they live, but they are also unburdened by what has been. Coconut Milk comes from a heavy legacy, Cereal Milk x (Jungle Cake x GMO). It should be a sweet dessert strain that’s very smelly, or ‘loud.’ A legacy strain might share the same name. Spotted in California, New Mexico, and Massachusetts.

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Coconut Cake

Want to fall out of the coconut tree and onto a cake? Wedding Cake and Ice Cream Cake are two top strains in the US. It’s no surprise we see more ‘Cake’ offspring out there, including one Coconut Cake that we see sold by Cru brand cannabis in California. Cru has been working on Ice Cream Cake, and Jungle Cake, so Coconut Cake fits right in. Coconut Cake can be a blend, or a strain. For example, Hawaii breeder 808 Genetics has a Wedding Cake x Heirloom Thai they call Coconut Cake. They say it smells like “coconut, vanilla, and gas.”

“Coconut” is also now an artificial flavoring some companies are using on joints and vapes in certain states.

Top coconut weed strains and products across US shops

Each legalization state has its own lineup of brands and strains, and coconut pops up on menus nationwide. Here are some top ‘coconut’ weed strains and products if you’re hitting the campaign trail, or just road tripping. 

California

San Diego

Sluggers x Dubz Garden Coconut Horchata

Probably the most popular coconut pre-roll in the US.

Dee Thai x Your Highness ‘Coconut Tropical Thai’ gummies

A top gummy brand, and a top fashion brand pump out these top-shelf tropical gummies.

Big Pete’s mini V coconut cookies

Get that ‘V’ for victory with these mini coconut cookie from California’s most notable edibles brand.

San Francisco

Coconut Matcha THCV mints

After a hard day locking up some mofos, you could see a prosecutor chillaxing with these tasteful, discrete Coconut Matcha THCV mints—which won’t smell or look like weed at all.

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Los Angeles

Dee gummies Thai Coconut

Oregon

Coconut Milk flowers

Up in Portland, the Coconut Milk strain has also found a lane.

Washington

Coconut Cake infused Joint

Gold Leaf Gardens thaws the Seattle freeze this summer with these potent pre-rolls.

Colorado

1:1 Blackberry Coconut infused soda

(Courtesy Keef Brands)

Avoid the modern stigma of smoking—Keef Brand drinks has drenched Colorado in coconut soda.

New Mexico

Coconut Milk flower

The new legalization state of New Mexico rolls deep for the Coconut Milk strain. We see it from the brands House and PurLife.

Illinois

Coconut Cream Pie flower

Chicago convention-goers can unwind this August with Illinois-grown legal Coconut Cream Pie, produced by the brand Savvy. The brand Verano has Coconut Cream Pie in extract form.

Massachusetts

Coast Cannabis Almond Coconut Sea Salt Milk chocolate bar

Nectar Seltzer in Pineapple Coconut-Express

Maine

All Kind Salted Coconut chocolate bar

Michigan

Redbud Roots bring the beach to you, even in the Midwest, with their flavor-forward vape cart. Full-Spectrum Coconut Cake cartridge by Redbud Roots 

Missouri

Lime in the Coconut candies by Tsunami 

(Courtesy Tsunami)
(Courtesy Tsunami)

Over in Kansas City, Missouri they put the lime in the coconut for you with these edibles from the brand Tsunami, stacked at 100 mg THC per piece and 1000 mg total. Drink it all up.

Florida

Sunburn Lime Coconut chews 

Maryland

Juicy Jay Coconut Rolling Papers 

Meditate on the significance of the passage of time, and the 33-year career of Three 6 Mafia Juicy with these flavored rolling papers. 

New York

Nanticoke Coconut Cream flower

(Courtesy Naticoke)
(Courtesy Naticoke)

Ohio

Ube Coconut Crunch Chocolate by Standard Farms 

(Courtesy Standard Farms)
(Courtesy Standard Farms)

Why not pair coconut with another divine flavor, ube, aka purple yam? Standard Farms have created an island escape in this infused chocolate bar.


OK, joyful warriors for legal weed. Here’s the link for you to search for coconut flavored weed and products near you. (Be sure to get local results by selecting your location in the top right corner of the search page.) Get out there, go coconuts, and have a great summer and fall. And if you’re in Florida, be sure to register to vote on legalization by October 1.



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California regulators suspend cannabis lab’s business license for questionable test results

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BelCosta executives asserted any problems were innocent mistakes rather than nefarious acts.

California marijuana testing facility BelCosta Labs in Long Beach lost its business permit for allegedly inflating THC potency results for clients and other infractions, MJBizDaily reported Thursday, citing an April 10 letter from state regulators to the lab which said its permit was suspended “effective immediately.”

The California Department of Cannabis Control also accused the lab of clearing marijuana products for sale that had failed contamination tests and were a potential threat to consumers.

A spokesman for the lab, however, told MJBizDaily that the company believed it “was doing everything right” and obeying all state cannabis testing regulations.

“We also don’t believe that we were anything close to a public safety or health concern,” BelCosta Vice President Nate Winokur told MJBizDaily.

On Thursday, the DCC’s license database listed the lab’s permit as “suspended.” The license is set to expire April 30.

It’s also not clear from the DCC letter if BelCosta has any immediate remedy to restart operations. CEO Myron Ronay indicated the lab may wind up suing the state if its permit is not restored.

“If we cannot come to an agreement that salvages the business we have built over the last 8+ years we will be forced to resort to the court system,” Ronay wrote in an email to MJBizDaily.

BelCosta executives also took to YouTube to publicly refute the DCC charges in the suspension letter and proclaimed that any issues were innocent mistakes, not nefarious rulebreaking. Winokur also suggested to MJBizDaily that his company may have been “singled out” by regulators for some reason.



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Sonoma County joins growing list of California localities rolling back cannabis taxes

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Sonoma County officials took another step to deliver tax relief to struggling marijuana growers, as the number of licensed cultivators shrank by almost two-thirds under the burden of hefty state and local taxes.

The County Board of Supervisors this week approved lowering the gross receipts tax to just 2.5% for legal cannabis growers, a reduction of 45%, The Press Democrat reported.

The move came in response to industry pressure, as businesses warn that many are on the brink of moving back into the underground market just to survive. The number of licensed cultivators in Sonoma County has plummeted to just 66 from 155 in May 2023, The Press Democrat noted.

The tax rate for outdoor growers will be slashed to 36 cents per square foot of cultivation canopy from its current rate of 69 cents, The Press Democrat reported, while rates for mixed-light cultivators decrease to $1.15 per square foot from $2.51, and indoor growers will see their rates decrease to $3 from $7.58. The rates will go into effect July 1 after a second board vote to confirm the ordinance’s passage.

The move is the fourth adjustment in the county’s cannabis tax rate since it was established in 2017, and it’s the first time the board has moved to permanently reduce rates. A previous rate reduction in 2022 was temporary.

The move is intended to help stabilize the local cannabis industry, a county marijuana program official told the board, who cited broadly decreasing wholesale prices for cannabis growers in California. The average price per pound of outdoor-grown marijuana flower, the board was told, has plummeted to $143 per pound from $277 a year ago, while indoor flower goes for just $240 a pound, down from $606 a year prior.

Sonoma County is the latest in a string of California localities to cut taxes on struggling marijuana companies in recent years. The Southern California cannabis-friendly town of Desert Hot Springs is also weighing another cannabis business tax cut this month to help dispensaries, to 5% of gross receipts from the current 10%, KESQ reported this week. The city’s mayor even threw his support behind the tax cut.

The move also comes amid a backdrop of fear by California cannabis companies heading into the summer, given that state marijuana taxes are set to increase on July 1, from a 15% excise tax rate to 19%, unless the legislature takes action to forestall the hike.



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California seizes over $316 million of illegal cannabis

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California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that over $316 million worth of illegal cannabis was seized in the first quarter of 2025. The state said the seizures demonstrated its commitment to the legal cannabis market. The value of the seizures might be a little generous as the state is placing a roughly $2,600 price per pound while the average is generally around $1,000 per pound.

The statistics for the first quarter are as follows:

  • 212,681 illegal cannabis plants eradicated
  • 120,307 pounds of illegal cannabis seized
  • 99 warrants served
  • 35 firearms seized
  • 29 arrests
  • $474,462 cash seized

“This task force continues to make impressive progress disrupting illegal cannabis operators and their supply chain,” said Nathaniel Arnold, Chief of the Law Enforcement Division for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW). “UCETF’s accomplishments demonstrate the dedication of all agencies involved in the taskforce.”

The Governor’s Unified Cannabis Enforcement Task Force (UCETF), the Department of Fish & Wildlife (DFW), and the Department of Cannabis Control (DCC) all worked together for the task force.

The UCETF said in a statement that it seized a total of $67,258,232 worth of unlicensed cannabis during the first quarter of the year. The task force’s enforcement efforts also included:

  • 19 search warrants served
  • 77,923 illegal cannabis plants eradicated
  • 40,747 pounds of illegal cannabis seized
  • $330,808 cash seized

Agencies involved in UCETF’s first quarter enforcement actions include Department of Cannabis Control, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, California State Park, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, California Department of Pesticide Regulation, Employment Development Department, California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, Oakland Fire Department, City of Oakland Police Department, Torrance Police Department, Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, and California Air National Guard.

DFW’s enforcement efforts for the first quarter 2025 included:

  • $97,476,308 worth of illegal cannabis seized
  • 47 search warrants served
  • 101,473 illegal plants eradicated
  • 8,340 pounds of illegal cannabis seized
  • 11 firearms seized
  • 9 arrests
  • $27,073 in cash seized

DCC’s enforcement efforts for first quarter of 2025 included:

  • $151,752,966 worth of illegal cannabis seized
  • 33 warrants served
  • 33,285 illegal plants eradicated
  • 71,220 pounds of illegal cannabis seized
  • 24 firearms seized
  • 20 arrests
  • $116,581 in cash seized

“We remain unwavering in our aggressive, strategic approach to reducing illicit cannabis activity,” stated Bill Jones, Chief of DCC’s Law Enforcement Division. “By staying ahead of the threats and swiftly dismantling illegal operations, we are driving up the cost of doing business for bad actors and delivering on our commitment to protect California’s communities and the legitimate industry.”



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