Jack Herer

Berkeley Patients Care Collective’s No. 1 stable sativa strain goes by the name of the legendary Jack Herer. Named for the late marijuana and hemp activist and author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, Jack Herer is a 50 percent Haze, 37.5 percent Northern Lights and 12.5 percent Skunk cross, bred from a massive pool of plants by breeders hoping to do justice to the life’s work of the activist. And justice they did: Jack Herer has an inimitable, award-winning smell like that of hard candy, tropical fruit and lilac. We got a massive eighth nug of the stuff, dense and lumpy, and seemingly sugar-coated. Lime green with a few dark, green leaves and orange hairs, grinding increases the sweet, floral bouquet. This potent sativa-dominant hybrid medicine provides a clear, focused and energetic high, and may help treat depression, stress and anxiety, as well as ADD and alcoholism.