Gas Station Shatter - Gas Mask

This Gas Station shatter carries the name of Gas Mask, a strain whose smell Leafly and AllBud both describe as fuel-like, with AllBud adding skunk and cherry. As shatter, it is a glassy, see-through extract that snaps cleanly when cold, mostly taken as a dab and sometimes crumbled over flower.

Cherry, skunk and a fuel-like nose

AllBud compares the aroma to fresh cherries stirred into sour, dank skunk, potent enough to fill a whole room. Leafly’s account leans on fuel: a very pungent smell with a faint trace of overripe citrus behind it. On the tongue, AllBud notes dank skunk finishing with sour cherry on the exhale, and one AllBud reviewer calls the taste cherry diesel and the smell stanky. Coffee, chemical and diesel are the flavours Leafly users pick most often.

AllBud pictures the buds as weighty and heart-shaped, olive green with purple undertones, set off by dark amber hairs and crystals. Limonene heads Leafly’s terpene numbers for Gas Mask, trailed by linalool, then myrcene.

Bred from Cherry Pie by Pacific NW Roots

Leafly credits the strain to Pacific NW Roots, which made it together with Exotic Genetix, and explains that it came from backcrossing an F2 hybrid of Cherry Pie and Alien Kush. AllBud’s version is a rare indica dominant hybrid, made by a four-way cross of Cherry Pie with Fire Alien Kush F2, leaning 70% indica to 30% sativa, while Leafly classes Gas Mask as an indica. Grown out, it flowers in 8 to 9 weeks with a medium yield, per Leafly.

What Gas Mask users report, and its THC

Leafly describes a strong high that lasts, opening with a heavy cerebral feel before settling into the limbs, and relaxed and tingly lead its reviewers’ reports. AllBud’s version starts with a lifted, heady feeling that adds no energy, then moves on to relaxation, with a tingle spreading through the body. Leafly’s strain-level numbers put THC near 18%, with CBG and THCV each near 1%, and rate the potency above the norm; AllBud lists 20% THC and 1% CBD.

Dabbing a high-THC extract

As shatter, Gas Mask falls in a group Health Canada calls high in THC, along with wax, hash and kief; on its lower-risk page, newcomers and people who use cannabis only now and then are asked to skip the lot. Its timing note for inhaled cannabis: onset in seconds or minutes, and a peak that may wait until the half-hour mark. How bars differ from regular shatter is the subject of our shatter bars explainer.