Girl Scout Cookies (Cannabis flos S-LAB): one pharmaceutical version and three descendant strains
Lineage from OG Kush and Durban Poison, terpene profile from one source, and only one pharmaceutical version. In this cluster, Girl Scout Cookies appears more often as a parent than as a commercial position.
| Strain card | Girl Scout Cookies |
|---|---|
| Producers | S-LAB (1 pharmaceutical position) |
| Medical brand | the same as the producer |
| Alternative names | none |
| Category according to sources | indica |
| Leading terpene | caryophyllene |
| Other terpenes | humulene limonene myrcene |
| Lineage | established Og Kush × Durban Poison |
| Source consistency | one source |
- Who supplies it. Exclusively S-LAB, so there is nothing to compare versions with, and a supply break means the absence of this strain, not another version of it.
- Profile. Led by caryophyllene, alongside humulene, limonene, myrcene. We do not provide percentage shares because sources calculate them based on different wholes.
- Origin. Established lineage, parents are Og Kush and Durban Poison.
- What is missing. The profile describes one source, so there is nothing to compare it with.
What is Girl Scout Cookies and where does this strain come from?
Girl Scout Cookies is a Californian cultivar with lineage from OG Kush and Durban Poison, popularized by the Cookie Fam breeding collective from the San Francisco Bay area. In Polish pharmacies, it is backed by a single producer, and the genetic description as indica comes from one source and is not the result of measurement.
The established lineage is not a rule in this cluster: among twenty-five of eighty-five strains, the parents remain unknown because the breeder did not disclose them or available records contradict each other. Here, two independent breeding descriptions indicate the same parents, and the name Cookie Fam refers to a group of breeders, not a single seed company.
The indica label conflicts with the second part of this lineage. Durban Poison is considered a South African strain classified on the opposite side of this division, and the division itself describes the plant’s growth habit, not its chemical composition, and in pharmacy descriptions, it is sometimes inherited from the sales material. We do not resolve the dispute; we only show where this discrepancy comes from.
The first part, OG Kush, is the name of an entire family of strains, not a single identified plant. In Polish pharmacies, there is a separate entry under this name, but its own origin has not been established. The common term in both names does not prove kinship in either direction, and in this comparison, the term kush is used by both strains with established lineage and those that have no lineage at all.
Which producers supply this strain to Polish pharmacies?
One. Girl Scout Cookies enters the Polish pharmaceutical market exclusively as S-LAB’s dried flower and corresponds to a single commercial position in our comparison. Comparing versions between producers is unfeasible in this market state because there is nothing to compare, not because the versions would be identical.
| Producer | Registered name without numerical part | What this version carries |
|---|---|---|
| S-LAB | Cannabis flos S-LAB | The only pharmaceutical version of this strain. The declared THC content is in the range of 16.2-19.8%, the genetics are described as indica, and the terpene profile comes from one database. |
The registered name carries a number in the middle because the doctor and pharmacy are obliged to the producer’s declaration. However, this declaration has an allowable deviation upwards and downwards of one-tenth of the value, so quoted alone suggests precision that does not exist. Therefore, we record the name without the numerical part and the content separately, by range.
Availability changes over time, and this position illustrates it well: the database from which the profile description comes marked it as unavailable at the time of data collection, although it left the description. Pharmaceutical dried flower disappears from circulation due to series exhaustion, supply breaks, or expiration of the license, and after months, it returns under the same name. We do not repeat the stock status in the cultivar description; one place that monitors it is a separately updated list of strains.
Dried flower dispensed by a doctor’s prescription is a different category than hemp flower available without a prescription, although both names sound similar. A full list of strains from this producer is collected separately, along with what distinguishes it from the other sixteen suppliers present in this comparison.
What does Girl Scout Cookies smell and taste like?
- humulene humulene
- caryophyllene caryophyllene (leading in the pharmacy list)
- limonene limonene
- myrcene myrcene
The source description is brief: spicy, peppery, and earthy aroma. This is a record from the taxonomy of one database, not the result of sensory analysis, so we treat it as a commercial label. The strain’s name suggests cookie sweetness, which this record does not confirm at all, and the divergence of the name from the description is seen more often in this cluster.
The peppery tone corresponds to what is attributed in volatile chemistry to caryophyllene, also present in black pepper and cloves. The earthy note is more often associated with humulene, known from hop cones. However, this attribution is based on smell, not measurement: neither of these two statements comes from a measurement made on a specific batch of dried flower.
The dictionary from which these terms were taken is closed. It serves 146 pharmaceutical entries with only 28 terms, and all three from this description belong to the most common: earthy returns with 68 entries, peppery with 57, spicy with 43. The description, which is given to about every second entry in the database, does not distinguish one strain from another and should not be read as a characteristic of this dried flower.
The aroma of the dried flower is not a constant feature. It changes with the harvest time, drying method, and storage conditions, and the volatile fraction decreases the fastest of everything that can be described in this raw material. The commercial description is created once and remains on the page, although the batch it referred to has long since left the shelf. The name itself is also not a clue here: the cookie association is carried by marketing, and the source record for this position speaks of spice and earth.
How long does it take for the strain to take effect and how long does the effect last?
Not for this strain, but for the route of administration. Inhaled vapor acts within a few minutes and subsides in a few hours, while an ingested portion responds much later and lasts longer. For the cultivar itself, no one has measured these times, so the difference between strains cannot be indicated here.
The route of administration determines the course more than the strain itself, and the ranges below describe it, not this cultivar, because pharmacokinetic studies for a single cultivar have not been published.
| Vaporization | After ingestion | |
|---|---|---|
| First sensations | after a few minutes | from half an hour to two |
| Onset | another dozen to thirty minutes | slowly, over several hours |
| Total duration | within two to four hours | after six, sometimes eight hours |
| Typical error | none | taking a portion after thirty minutes, which gives both doses at once |
The strain contributes one own number to this picture, the declared content of the active substance, and it determines the portion size, not the clock. Anyone comparing two positions of different potency with the same route of administration compares the dose, not the course. The method of administration and the dose size is determined by the attending physician, as they know the patient’s other medications.
What is known and what is not known about the effects of this strain?
Little is known, and it is better to say it directly. No one has published studies on the strain itself. There are works on caryophyllene, the terpene assigned to this position in our pharmaceutical inventory, but they were conducted on mice and in cell systems, not on patients inhaling vapor from dried flower.
The first of the two works in the evidence base of this project is Gertsch et al.
| Study | Model and route of administration | What was shown |
|---|---|---|
| Gertsch J et al., 2008 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) PMID:18574142 |
mouse (in vivo) and test tube (receptor binding, human cells) | (E)-caryophyllene selectively bound to the CB2 receptor (Ki = 155 nM) and inhibited carrageenan-induced paw swelling in wild-type mice, but not in CB2 receptor knockout mice (Cnr2-/-), indicating a CB2-dependent mechanism; the study did not include any anxiety tests. |
| Klauke AL et al., 2014 European Neuropsychopharmacology PMID:24210682 |
rodent (mouse) | Oral caryophyllene reduced late inflammatory pain in mice in the formalin test in a CB2 receptor-dependent manner, with no effect on the early phase; in a neuropathic pain model, it alleviated thermal hyperalgesia and mechanical allodynia without developing tolerance with chronic administration. |
The second is Klauke et al.
In neither of the two studies was caryophyllene tested on humans or in inhaled form from dried flower; both works concern oral or systemic administration in mice in pain and inflammation models, not sleep or mood.
The terpene profile of this position describes one source and lists humulene, caryophyllene, limonene, and myrcene. We do not provide shares in percentages because the denominator can vary in such comparisons; additionally, two positions stand at the top in a tie, so even this one database does not indicate a single leader. Caryophyllene is listed as the dominant terpene for another reason: this strain was classified as such in the pharmaceutical data, and that is a different criterion than the ranking of shares. Separate from the studies is the sales material, which attributes relaxing effects to this strain. This statement comes from the commercial side, not the result of scientific work, and we mark it here as such.
What side effects have been reported from this strain?
No specific side effects have been reported for this strain, as the reporting system does not use strain names. The registry links an event to a medicinal product and a batch number, and one trade name can be broken down into many batches. Therefore, below is an image for hemp flower as a group.
Reports of side effects are collected for the medicinal product with a batch number, not for the strain name, so the following pertains to hemp flower as a group of raw materials. The most commonly reported symptoms are dry mouth, red eyes, and increased heart rate. Less frequently described are dizziness upon rapid standing, daytime drowsiness, and temporary worsening of short-term memory, as well as anxiety that increases with dosage. A separate issue is medications taken concurrently, especially sedatives and those affecting coagulation: their assessment requires knowledge of the entire list of preparations, not just the description of the plant. We do not provide the frequency of these symptoms numerically because public compilations for hemp flower in Poland do not separate them by individual products.
Additionally, there is the scale. The strain corresponds to one commercial position from one producer, so even when breaking down reports by individual products, the sample would be small. An adverse event is reported to the attending physician or to the national monitoring system, and the strain name is not a decisive field in such a report.
How to vaporize this strain and at what temperature?
There is no single correct number because temperature tables for terpenes contradict each other. Caryophyllene boils around 257 degrees at atmospheric pressure, but the same compound has been measured at 130 degrees when the pressure was reduced to fourteen millimeters of mercury. The boiling point is not a vaporizer setting.
The discrepancy does not arise from carelessness in the tables, but from measurement conditions. The lower the pressure, the lower the number in the column, and sources rarely provide both side by side. Humulene has only been measured in our data under reduced pressure, around 99-100 degrees at three millimeters of mercury, and does not carry atmospheric values at all. Placing such a number next to the atmospheric value of another compound creates a table where the rows are not comparable. Even rows measured the same way diverge: in the same data, limonene has an atmospheric value around 178 degrees, while myrcene around 167.
The second issue is the gap between the setting and the temperature of the raw material itself. The display shows the heater setting, not the state of the flower in the chamber, and the difference depends on the device’s construction and the method of inhalation. For this reason, we do not provide a single number as a recommendation. The method of administering the raw material is described by the doctor in the recommendation, and the evaporation temperatures of individual components are collected separately.
Which strains are related to it?
None, if asking about siblings. In our pedigree graph, there is no pharmaceutical strain that shares an identified parent with this position. Durban Poison does not appear in any other lineage in this comparison, and OG Kush is the name of a family of strains, and such a parental community does not determine anything.
Three other positions have the entry og kush in their lineage: Cataract Kush, Chemango Kush, and Galaxy Walker OG. This does not make them siblings of this strain, as the common term is a family term, not an established plant. An empty sibling list with a known lineage can be a correct result in this project, not a gap to be filled.
The reverse direction looks more interesting. Girl Scout Cookies appears in this cluster primarily as a parent: in the lineages, it has Electric Honeydew, GMO, and Balasa, also described as Gorilla Girl. This is offspring, not siblings, and the graph treats both relationships separately.
A separate case is Gelato 33, whose lineage mentions thin mint gsc. This name indicates a phenotype derived from the same line, but it has been recorded as a separate entry, so the graph does not automatically link both entries, and we do not do so either. A parent added by intuition is harder to remove later than to add.
Frequently asked questions about Girl Scout Cookies
Can Girl Scout Cookies be purchased in a pharmacy without a prescription?
No. Hemp flower is a pharmaceutical raw material in Poland dispensed by a doctor’s prescription in the Rpw category, and the pharmacy fulfills a prescription issued by a doctor. The strain name does not change the dispensing mode.
What is the THC content in the pharmaceutical version of this strain?
The producer’s declaration for the only pharmaceutical version gives a range of 16.2-19.8%. We provide a range, not a single number, because the declared value has an allowable deviation of one-tenth in either direction.
Is Girl Scout Cookies an indica strain?
One database describes it as such, but this description is not a measurement. The lineage includes Durban Poison, classified on the opposite side of this division, and the division itself speaks of the plant’s growth habit, not its chemical composition.
Which terpene dominates in this strain?
In the pharmaceutical data, this position is assigned to caryophyllene. However, the ranking of shares from the source database does not indicate a leader, as two positions stand equally, so both records answer slightly different questions.
Are there studies on the effects of this strain in humans?
No. Our evidence base contains two works on caryophyllene, both conducted on mice or in cell systems. No clinical study has been published for the cultivar itself, and sales material is not evidence.
Why do you not provide percentage shares of terpenes?
Because the denominator is unknown. The total shares reported by Polish databases for the same positions reach 46 percent in one compilation and 83 percent in another, so numbers from different sources do not describe the same whole.
Where to check if this strain is currently available?
In the list of available strains, which we update in one place. The description of a single strain intentionally does not carry stock status because pharmaceutical dried flower disappears from circulation and returns under the same name after months.
Hemp flower is a pharmaceutical raw material dispensed by a doctor’s prescription in the Rpw category. The material is for informational purposes and does not replace medical advice or the content of the medicinal product characteristics. The editorial text was prepared by the editorial team of ubucha.pl.
