Kush is a particular variety of cannabis that descends from the Hindu Kush mountains. This mountain range spans the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and is one of the few geographic regions where the cannabis plant grows natively.
Having strong Kush genetics usually means a strain will have a few of the following attributes:
Appearance: Your strain may exhibit deep green colas and leaves with hints of purple. Pistils (hairs) can look orange, bronze, or rust colored. Buds are dense, chunky, and knotted, coming from squat, thick plants.
Smell: Aroma can vary between earthy, floral, pungent, pine, incense, sweet fruit, hash spice, pepper, citrus, gas, and herbs.
Flavor: Smoke or vapor should be smooth and herbaceous, tasting of flowers, grape, diesel, citrus, and earth.
"Bright euphoria that puts a smile on the couch-locked consumer"? Sounds right up Lil Wayne's alley. No wonder he smokes so much of it. Luckily for us, given Wayne's preference for kush, "Kush" is not the only song named "Kush" on which Lil Wayne appears. There is also the 2013 Gunplay song "Kush," which although it is also named "Kush," is not the same as "Kush" and in fact references yet another Lil Wayne kush-smoking anthem not named "Kush," the Birdman and Drake-featuring single "Money to Blow."Effects: Kush usually vacillates between hybrid and indica dominance. The effects are typically heavy and sedative. OG Kush crosses are usually coupled with a bright euphoria that puts a smile on the couch-locked consumer. Introspection or internal reflection is a common effect of Kush as well. These cerebral effects make a strong case for Kush as a meditative variety of cannabis.
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I don't smoke no mid
I'm always fucking high
So much we might have kids
And why you babysitting a blunt
That's that shit I don't like
I'm looking for one of these bad bitches
To come ride me like a turnpike
On some real shit I'm a pothead
Please don't blow my high, man
Look into my eyes and
It look like I'm from Thailand
I am smoking on that gas
Life should be on Cinemax
Smoking on that OG in that double-R
I'm Real Relaxed
I smoke so much kill they call me Killa
And I'm on that strong, I'm on that strong, bodybuilder
Light that shit and pass it
My white girl on that acid
But me I'm on that kush, that kush