Heisenberg Shatter Amnesia Haze

In shatter form, Heisenberg’s Amnesia Haze is translucent and glassy, the kind of extract that snaps when it gets cold. People usually dab shatter or crumble it over flower, two methods our guide to shatter goes through.

Two Cannabis Cup firsts

Leafly calls Amnesia Haze a Cannabis Cup winner, with first place in 2004 and first place again in the 2012 Sativa Cup, and our Amnesia Haze guide also describes it as a multiple Cannabis Cup winner. Leafly adds that the strain went on to become popular in Amsterdam.

From landraces to Jenny Kush

Leafly’s write-up traces the strain’s genetics to South Asian and Jamaican landraces, and its genetics panel names Haze and Afghani as parents. The family has grown since: Leafly lists Jenny Kush and Sour Joker as child strains. AllBud calls Amnesia Haze an international strain that turns up more often in Europe than in the US, says it is popular in British Columbia, and judges it sativa-dominant at roughly four-fifths sativa.

How Leafly and AllBud users rate it

Leafly users give Amnesia Haze an average of 4.3 from 1,804 ratings; on AllBud it holds 4.5 from 67 votes and 43 reviews. One Leafly reviewer describes a strong lemon smell carrying some spice and pepper, and AllBud’s profile adds a creative, euphoric high and a fresh, fruity, hash-like taste. Leafly’s own gauges read mostly energizing on the calming-to-energizing scale and above average for THC.

Before a first dab of shatter

Health Canada mentions shatter by name in its high-THC extract warning, next to wax, hash and kief, and that warning comes with advice for beginners and occasional users: leave shatter and its fellow extracts alone. After a dab of Amnesia Haze shatter, or any cannabis, its lower-risk guidelines ask for 6 hours or more before getting in the driver’s seat.