OG Kush from Bliss Pharma: a single source profile and an unresolved lineage

Where does OG Kush come from and can its lineage be established?

It cannot. In the lineage graph of this compilation, the row for OG Kush has an unknown value and an empty source field, so the parents of this strain remain unresolved. The same record applies to twenty-five out of eighty-five cultivars available in Polish pharmacies, so it is not an exception.

An unknown record does not mean that no work has been done. It means that the available descriptions either remain silent about the parents or provide versions that cannot be reconciled, and the project then does not enter anything. A lineage added by intuition creates a connection in the graph that does not actually exist, and then that connection returns as a reference between two texts and appears as an establishment.

The databases describing the Polish market do not even agree on the type of plant. One lists this entry as a hybrid, while the other as a hybrid with an indica dominance. With a lineage that no one has established, this discrepancy cannot be resolved, as there is no record of the parents to refer to.

Rows with established origins carry in the same file a source address: the breeder's page or a strain database that could be verified. The row for OG Kush has this field empty, and this is information in itself. There is nothing to verify because no one indicated where this knowledge would come from.

Which producers supply OG Kush to Polish pharmacies?

One. In the pharmacy registry where this cluster stands, OG Kush is listed exclusively under Bliss Pharma and in one commercial position. In comparison, the most widely supplied strains from the same registry have several producers at once, which with one position means there is no alternative version.

We provide the registered name here without a numerical component, although both databases include that component. The number included in the trade name repeats the content declared by the producer, and the declaration has an allowable deviation in both directions. Transcribed from the packaging as a point, it appears to be a measurement, which it is not, so we leave just the name.

The profile composition describes one source for this strain, budcare.pl, and lists in it myrcene and pinene. The second database leads the same position, but does not fill in the terpene fields at all, so the comparison of two independent descriptions is not feasible here. Regarding genetics, both express their opinions, and then it turns out they say different things.

One supplier and one position have measurable consequences for the patient: in case of a supply interruption, there is no same strain from someone else in the pharmacy. The state of supplies changes faster than the description of the plant, as it depends on permits, expiration dates of batches, and the importer's decisions, which is why the current assortment collects a summary of available strains, and not this site. Bliss Pharma supplies another strain to Polish pharmacies, Strawberry OG, and on this its presence in this list ends.

What does OG Kush smell and taste like?

Citrusy and resinous. The only public description of the aroma of this strain mentions citrus, spicy, fuel-like, and pine notes, and that's about all that can be said about the scent without guessing. The description comes from the strain database, not from a sensory analysis of a batch, so it is a report, not a laboratory measurement.

The note about the aroma has a weaker status in this material than the terpene composition. Terpenes are listed from documentation, while the scent note is described in words by someone, so two people at the same jar will provide two descriptions, and both will be sincere. Therefore, we quote what is stated in the database and do not add our own impressions.

The scent is also not constant over time. The dried flower releases volatile components with each opening of the package, and along with them, what is felt changes. The pharmaceutical product sits in circulation for weeks, between production and opening by the patient, and no sensory description accounts for such a journey.

The taste of vapor is something different than the smell of the dried flower. When vaporizing, only what has evaporated at a given setting is perceived, not the entire contents of the jar, so the same plant material tastes different at a lower temperature than at a higher one.

How long does it take for OG Kush to take effect and how long does the effect last?

Depending on the method of administration, not the strain. With vaporization, the first sensations come within a few minutes, while after ingestion, it takes several dozen minutes. For OG Kush itself, no one has measured this, so the ranges below describe the method of administration of the raw material, not this specific pharmaceutical product.

The route of administration determines the course more than the variety itself. After vaporization, the substance passes from the lungs to the blood almost immediately, so the first sensations appear after a few minutes, the intensity increases for another ten to thirty minutes, and the whole effect lasts for two to four hours. After ingestion, the raw material first passes through the intestine and liver, so the first sensations are awaited from half an hour to two hours, and the episode can last six, sometimes eight hours. Hence the most common mistake with oral administration: anyone who thinks nothing is happening after thirty minutes and takes another dose will receive both doses at once. The above ranges describe the route of administration, not this variety; pharmacokinetic studies for a single cultivar have not been published.

The manufacturer of this product does not announce its own time characteristics, and since the strain is available in pharmacies in one variant, there is not even a second batch from the same supplier to compare its own course. Therefore, the assessment remains with the method of administration and with the observation conducted together with the prescribing physician.

What is known about the effects of OG Kush, and what remains unconfirmed?

Not much and not about the strain itself. The studies we have concern individual terpenes, not this pharmaceutical product. Pinene, which ranks highest in the OG Kush profile, has so far been studied in mice and in cell culture. Everything else is either the manufacturer's description or a report from a single patient, not the result of a study.

The first of the studies was published in 2016 in Molecular Pharmacology, authored by Yang and colleagues (PMID:27573669). Orally administered (-)-alpha-pinene prolonged NREM sleep time in mice and shortened sleep latency (EEG/EMG recording), acting as a partial modulator that binds directly to the benzodiazepine site of the GABA-A receptor, without affecting the intensity of NREM sleep or the duration of REM sleep.

The second, published a year earlier in The American Journal of Chinese Medicine by Kim and colleagues (PMID:26119957), did not concern the whole animal but rather cells in a dish. Alpha-pinene reduced the secretion of IL-6, TNF-alpha, and nitric oxide, as well as the expression of iNOS and COX-2 in LPS-stimulated mouse peritoneal macrophages by inhibiting the MAPK and NF-kB pathways.

The model determines everything here. A mouse with pure terpene administered to the stomach and cells responding in a dish to an inflammatory stimulus is not a patient inhaling vapor from dried flower, where the same component constitutes a fraction of the profile. No anxiolytic or analgesic effects of pinene have been demonstrated in humans; available data only concern its effects on sleep in mice after oral administration and its anti-inflammatory action on mouse macrophages in culture.

On the side of the strain itself, there remains one word from the catalog. The database describing this product adds possible relaxing effects and does not indicate where this qualification comes from or what it is based on. This is a catalog label, not a measurement result, and we treat it as such here.

What side effects have been reported after OG Kush?

None that could be attributed to this name. Safety monitoring in Poland is conducted for a specific production batch, and OG Kush has one product in pharmacies and no published summary of reports. Therefore, the following description concerns dried flower in general, not this one product.

Reports of adverse effects are collected for medicinal products with a batch number, not for the strain name, so the following pertains to hemp dried flower as a group of raw materials. The most frequently reported symptoms are dry mouth, red eyes, and increased heart rate. Dizziness upon rapid standing, daytime drowsiness, and temporary worsening of short-term memory are less frequently described, 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, as public compilations for hemp dried flower in Poland do not separate them by individual products.

The batch number from the packaging is the only identifier that means anything in this circulation. The trade name does not appear in the report form, so even if all reports concerned this specific product, no public summary would show it separately.

At what temperature is OG Kush vaporized?

There is no single correct value. Alpha-pinene, which ranks highest in the profile of this strain, boils at atmospheric pressure at 156.2 degrees Celsius, while myrcene at 166.8. However, the vaporizer setting is not the same as the boiling point of the pure compound, and the tables circulating online confuse these two things.

The boiling point describes a pure substance in a vessel, not vapor coming from the equipment's chamber. In the chamber lies the ground plant material with its own thermal conductivity, the sensor usually measures in a different place than where evaporation occurs, and individual components are released gradually, not suddenly upon exceeding a threshold.

Source records are also not a single measurement. For alpha-pinene, the base of physicochemical properties provides both 155 degrees and a value converted from the record in Fahrenheit, and some measurements for other terpenes were made under reduced pressure, where the numbers come out significantly lower. Comparing tables from different sites without checking the pressure leads nowhere.

The profile of this strain indicates only that both components mentioned in it evaporate close to each other, at a difference of about ten degrees. How to translate this into equipment settings is described in a separate text about the evaporation of terpenes.

Which strains from Polish pharmacies are related to OG Kush?

None in a way that could be proven. Siblings are derived from common parents, and the OG Kush entry in the pedigree graph has none, so the field for related strains remains empty. However, the name appears in the pedigrees of other cultivars, which is a separate matter.

It appears more often than any other: as a parent, it is mentioned by four positions from this comparison, which is as many as Wedding Cake and more than any other name in this graph. They are Cataract Kush, Chemango Kush, Galaxy Walker OG and Girl Scout Cookies.

However, these are descendants, not siblings, and this bond is weaker than it seems. The parent entry simply states og kush and indicates the family name, not a plant with established origin, as such a plant would correspond to a line with filled parents. The next two positions, King Sherb and Original Gangster Deluxe, also mention another name from this circle, og kush breath, which doesn't even have its own row in the graph. Girl Scout Cookies itself can be a parent to three further entries, so the name reaches a generation deeper, but each such step is a record in the source, not a confirmed lineage.

This is best illustrated by the second strain from the same producer. Strawberry OG has parents recorded along with the breeder's address, which are Bruce Banner #3 and SFV OG IBL. The OG component appears in both names, yet neither leads to the OG Kush row. Therefore, the empty list of related strains is a result, not a gap to be filled.

Frequently Asked Questions about OG Kush

Is OG Kush from a Polish pharmacy the same plant as OG Kush from foreign strain databases?

There is no way to confirm that. The trade name is not protected or registered like an agricultural strain, and the pedigree row for this entry remains empty, so the comparison boils down to juxtaposing two descriptions, not two genotypes.

Why is there no THC content listed in this text?

Because available records provide a single number without the manufacturer's tolerance. The declared content has an allowable deviation in both directions, so being written as a point pretends to be precision that isn't there. Since the source does not provide a range, we do not provide this value at all.

How many producers supply OG Kush to Polish pharmacies?

One, Bliss Pharma, with one commercial entry. The same supplier also offers Strawberry OG in Polish pharmacies, and that concludes its presence in this list.

Does pinene induce sleep?

In mice, oral administration shortened the latency to sleep and prolonged NREM sleep time. This has not been tested in humans, and inhaling vapor from dried flower is a different route of administration and a different concentration than in that experiment.

Is OG Kush related to Galaxy Walker OG?

In the pedigree graph, Galaxy Walker OG lists og kush among its parents, so it would be more of a descendant than a related strain. Since the OG Kush row itself has no recorded parents, this lineage cannot be closed in either direction.

Is dried flower from the online store the same product as OG Kush from the pharmacy?

No. The pharmacy entry is a pharmaceutical raw material dispensed by prescription, while the store dried hemp has a different legal status and different documentation. The same strain name on the packaging does not equate these two things.

Does OG Kush seem available over the counter?

No. Dried flower is a pharmaceutical raw material dispensed by a doctor's prescription in category Rpw, so it is not available over the counter in pharmacies.

Dried hemp is a pharmaceutical raw material dispensed by prescription in the Rpw category. The material is informational in nature and does not replace consultation with the attending physician. Editorial text: redakcja ubucha.pl.