Dab Habit Shatter - Miracle Alien Cookies

Capulator bred the strain behind this Dab Habit shatter, according to our Miracle Alien Cookies guide, which places it in the Cookies family. Leafly and AllBud both know it by its short name, MAC.

Alien Cookies, Starfighter and a Colombian

Leafly’s description has Alien Cookies crossed with Starfighter and Columbian, and its genetics block shows the first two as parents. AllBud spells the cross out as Alien Cookies bred to a Colombian x Starfighter plant and gives MAC an even 50/50 indica-to-sativa split. MAC Stomper and Purple MAC are the offspring Leafly records, and one Leafly reviewer names Miracle Mints as an outcross.

Orange, flowers and limonene

Limonene tops the terpene figures Leafly draws from Leafly Certified labs, with pinene next and caryophyllene third. Leafly describes a smooth orange taste balanced by floral notes and finishing sweet and earthy, and tags the flavour pepper, citrus and flowery; our guide’s summary is sweet citrus and cream with a touch of spice. One Leafly reviewer was struck by unusually dense trichome coverage and an orange-and-mint smell, and Robert Misic’s tip in our guide recalls another for whom the trichomes looked as if poured on like a glaze.

A creeper, by one reviewer’s account

Leafly rates MAC’s effects mostly energizing, while relaxed, happy and uplifted lead the feelings its reviewers mention. One of them calls MAC a creeper whose full effect landed 10 to 15 minutes after smoking. For THC, Leafly’s strain page shows 22% plus 1% CBG and calls that higher than average, while AllBud’s average range is 14% to 20%.

Taking MAC shatter slowly

Dab Habit’s MAC comes as shatter, a glassy, translucent extract that goes brittle in the cold and is generally dabbed or crumbled onto flower. Our guide to shatter explains how the extract is made and how strong it tends to be. For inhaled cannabis, Health Canada allows up to 30 minutes for the peak to arrive, and it counts shatter with wax, hash and kief as THC-heavy extracts for first-timers and occasional users to leave aside. Under its lower-risk guidelines, a dab of MAC rules out the driver’s seat for 6 hours or longer.