Jack Haze (Cannabis sativa L. Red No 2): terpinolen in the profile, White Widow in the pedigree
Sativa supplied to Polish pharmacies by one producer. The terpene profile is described by one database, and the pedigree is provided by the brand's website: white widow crossed with haze.
| Strain card | Red No 2 (Jack Haze) |
|---|---|
| Producers | Canopy Growth (1 pharmacy position) |
| Medical brand | the same as the producer |
| Alternative names | Red No 2 and Jack Haze |
| Category according to sources | sativa |
| Leading terpene | terpinolen |
| Other terpenes | myrcene ocimene pinene |
| Pedigree | established White Widow × Haze |
| Source consistency | one source |
- Who supplies. Exclusively Canopy Growth, so there is nothing to compare versions, and a supply break means the absence of this strain, not another version of it.
- Profile. It leads with terpinolen, alongside myrcene, ocimene, pinene. We do not provide percentage shares because sources count them against different totals.
- Origin. The pedigree is established, the parents are White Widow and Haze.
- What is missing. The profile describes one source, so there is nothing to compare it with.
What is Red No 2 (Jack Haze) and where does this strain come from?
Red No 2 (Jack Haze) is a sativa strain supplied to Polish pharmacies by one producer. The pedigree is provided by the Polish website of the Spectrum Therapeutics brand: a cross of white widow with haze, cultivated under the 7ACRES label. The registered name is Cannabis sativa L., Red No 2, while the cultivation name Jack Haze operates alongside it.
Both services that describe this pharmacy position in Polish agree on the genetics and both classify it as sativa. For this position, the declared THC content ranges from 17.1-20.9%, as the label number must include an allowable deviation upwards and downwards, which is one-tenth of that value. A single number would be a promise that no batch of raw material has to fulfill, and the registered name carries it within itself and thus is sometimes read as the result of testing a specific batch.
The pedigree is an exception in the entire set because it comes directly from the entity introducing the raw material, not from a breeding service. The sentence from the brand’s website mentions both parents by name. However, both of these names are broad families of style, not single cultivars that can be pointed out, so the established origin does not translate here into a list of sister strains. I will return to this in the last section because the same distinction determines what is missing in the pedigree graph.
Which producers supply Red No 2 to Polish pharmacies?
One. Canopy Growth, a Canadian company that operates in the Polish pharmacy market under the Spectrum Therapeutics brand. In the inventory of this set, the strain has exactly one pharmacy position, so the table below has one row, and this is not a data gap, but the entire answer to the question in the header.
| Producer | Pharmacy brand | Genetics according to both databases | THC content as a range | Source of the range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canopy Growth | Spectrum Therapeutics | sativa | 17.1-20.9% | budcare.pl |
The table says as much as the entry in the database, and nothing more. It does not have a column for price or current stock status, as both change faster than the page can be updated. The current status is maintained at one address, in the list of strains available in Polish pharmacies, and that is the point of reference, not this description.
The presence of a position in the pharmacy depends on the permit for a given batch, the delivery date, and whether the wholesaler has the goods in a given week. The database from which the profile of this strain comes marked its presence in the market as high, but such a label ages along with the stock it referred to. Outside the pharmacy, a completely different product is in circulation: hemp flower with low THC content, sold without a prescription, and that is a separate category of products, not the same thing under a different name.
One producer has one more consequence. When a delivery is delayed, there is no same strain from another entity that can be reached as a substitute. Other strains from this producer are collected separately because they enter the pharmacy under the same brand and share the same documentation track.
What does Red No 2 (Jack Haze) smell and taste like?
- myrcene myrcene
- ocimene ocimene
- pinene pinene
- terpinolen terpinolen (leading in the pharmacy list)
Citrusy, pine, and a hint of camphor: these are the three descriptions provided by the database that described the aroma of this position. These are words, not measurement results, so they speak about the impression, not the composition. None of these notes has an assigned intensity or method by which it was determined.
The smell of the flower is taken on by volatile compounds, and these diminish over time. The longer the package is left open and the warmer it has been stored, the less remains of what smelled when packed. Therefore, two batches of the same strain can smell differently, and the discrepancy does not have to mean that one is worse. The description from the database was created at some point for some batch, and no one claims that it refers to the one the patient is holding.
Two things can be easily confused here. The set of terpenes given for this strain describes its chemical composition, while the aromatic descriptions describe human perception. The pine note and the presence of pinene in the set agree with each other at the level of association, but the aroma description is not proof of composition, nor vice versa. Databases provide both in the same table, which makes it read like one measurement taken in one laboratory.
How long does it take for Red No 2 to start working and how long does the effect last?
It is unknown because no one has measured this for this cultivar. Known ranges describe the route of administration: inhalation works quickly and briefly, while the oral route works slowly and lasts long. This strain does not have a single number in this regard, and the databases that describe it do not address the topic at all.
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 swallowing | |
|---|---|---|
| First sensations | after a few minutes | from half an hour to two |
| Onset | another ten to thirty minutes | slowly, over several hours |
| Total duration | within two to four hours | after six, sometimes eight hours |
| Typical error | none | taking a dose after thirty minutes, which gives both doses at once |
The only thing the databases add for this position is a label of possible stimulating action. This is a category organizing the list of strains, not an observation from measurement, and does not say anything about how many minutes it takes for anything to start or how long it lasts. Reading such a label as one about the course is often the most common misunderstanding with these tables.
What is known and what is not known about the effects of Red No 2?
No study has been published for the strain itself. However, there are two studies on terpinolen, which stands in its profile, and both have a narrow scope: one concerns mice after inhalation, the other human cells in culture. None of them studied a patient taking this raw material or even the whole plant.
| Study | Model and route of administration | What was shown |
|---|---|---|
| Okumura N et al., 2012 Oncology Letters PMID:22740904 |
test tube (human cell line K562) | Terpinolen reduced the level of AKT1 protein and inhibited the proliferation of human leukemia cells of the K562 line in culture; the study did not concern pain, sleep, or anxiety. |
| Ito K et al., 2013 Journal of Natural Medicines PMID:23339024 |
rodent (mouse, inhalation) | Inhaled terpinolen exhibited sedative effects in mice; the effect also persisted in mice with impaired olfaction, indicating that the action occurred after the compound was absorbed into the body through the nose, not solely through the perception of smell. |
The boundary of this data is sharper than it looks from afar. No action of terpinolen on pain, anxiety, or sleep has been demonstrated in humans or in any animal pain model; the available data only includes sedative action after inhalation in mice and its effect on a leukemia cell line in a test tube. Separately from this stands what sales materials and patient reports carry: the designation sativa and the label of stimulating action are descriptions of a commercial category repeated from the strain database, not conclusions from measurements on humans.
What side effects have been reported after Red No 2?
None specifically for this strain. The reporting system does not know the names of cultivars, so there is no compilation of events assigned specifically to this position. Publicly known descriptions refer to hemp flower treated as a group of raw materials, not to this one name, and that is all that can be said honestly.
Reports of side effects are collected for a 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 are dry mouth, red eyes, and increased heart rate. Less frequently described are dizziness upon rapid standing, daytime drowsiness, and transient worsening of short-term memory, as well as anxiety increasing 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.
For Red No 2, neither the number of producers nor the fact that the position is singular in Poland changes this. A report enters the system with a batch number and the name of the medicinal product, and the cultivation name may be an annotation in the documentation. Anyone looking for statistics for Jack Haze itself is searching for numbers that no one collects in such a division.
At what temperature should Red No 2 be vaporized?
There is no single correct value because the four terpenes in the profile of this strain evaporate at different temperatures. Measured boiling temperatures of pure compounds range from about 156 °C for pinene to about 184 °C for terpinolen, and setting the vaporizer is not the same as the temperature of the flower in the chamber.
| Terpene from the profile | Records in chemical databases | Value at atmospheric pressure |
|---|---|---|
| pinene | 155 °C; 156 °C at 760 mmHg | about 156 °C |
| myrcene | 166-167 °C; 167 °C | about 167 °C |
| ocimene | 177 °C, no pressure given | not calculated |
| terpinolen | 183-185 °C; 187 °C | about 184 °C |
The set of four terpenes comes from one source: it was described by only one of the two Polish databases, the other has this position but leaves the terpene column empty. The same source assigns all four positions identical weight, so from its list, it does not follow which compound predominates. Terpinolen is listed with this strain as leading because that is how it was described in the sales catalog of strains, not because it came out on top in the measurement of shares.
The numbers in the table describe the pure compound in the laboratory, not the plant material in the device chamber. In the flower, terpenes are bound with resin and begin to evaporate below their boiling point, so the value from the table indicates where the process accelerates, not where it starts. The vaporizer sensor usually measures the heater or air before the bed, not the bed itself, and the difference can be significant. Why popular temperature tables contradict themselves and why the device’s indication diverges from the temperature of the material are discussed in separate texts. The state of knowledge about individual compounds is collected at myrcene, ocimene, pinene, and terpinolen.
Which strains are related to Red No 2?
None. The pedigree graph for Red No 2 has an empty list of sister strains, and this is not a lack of data, but a result. Both parents are broad families of style, not single cultivars that can be pointed out, so there is nothing to connect this strain at the sibling level.
In the set, there are three other positions that have some of the same words in their pedigree. Delahaze and White Widow X partially derive from white widow, and Jack Herer has haze among its parents. None of them is placed next to Red No 2 in the graph because a common ancestor at the family level is not enough: under the name haze are hidden dozens of different crosses, and under white widow, more.
The similarity of names is an even weaker premise than a common family. The Haze component in the trade name may be added due to the character of the plant, not due to documented ancestry, and this works the other way around as well: a strain without this word in its name may have exactly the same in its pedigree. Adding siblings by intuition creates connections that no one has confirmed, and that is why the empty list remains empty here. Such an empty column stands in this set for about half of the strains with established origins, not just this one.
Frequently asked questions about Red No 2 (Jack Haze)
Are Red No 2 and Jack Haze the same strain?
Yes. Red No 2 is the registered name of the pharmacy position, while Jack Haze is the cultivation name of the same plant. Both Polish databases describing this position list them together.
What is the THC content in this strain?
The declared content is in the range of 17.1-20.9%. We provide it as a range because the value on the label has an allowable deviation upwards and downwards, and is not the result of testing a given batch.
How many companies supply this strain to Polish pharmacies?
One. The raw material comes from Canopy Growth and reaches the pharmacy under the Spectrum Therapeutics brand. With one supplier, a supply break has no substitute in the form of the same strain from another entity.
Does terpinolen have sedative or analgesic effects?
This has not been demonstrated. The available studies are a sedative study on mice after inhalation and a study on a human cell line in a test tube, and neither of them concerned pain or sleep in humans.
Does this strain have siblings among strains from Polish pharmacies?
No. Both parents are broad families of style, not single cultivars, so the pedigree graph does not indicate any sister strain for it.
Where to find current information about the availability of this strain in pharmacies?
From the current list of strains available in Polish pharmacies, maintained at one address. Availability depends on the batch and deliveries, so each description of the strain ages faster than such a list.
Hemp flower is a pharmaceutical raw material dispensed by prescription in the Rpw category. The material is informational in nature, describes the state of available data, and does not replace a conversation with a doctor or the documentation attached to the product.
Editorial text: editorial team ubucha.pl.
