What Happened to "Girl Scout Cookies" Weed?

The bigger commercial cannabis gets, the less you'll see dispensaries selling strains named after established products and entities.

By Herbert Fuego

May 28, 2025

Westword

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Dear Stoner: What happened to Girl Scout Cookies weed? I see "Cookies" shit everywhere, and other strains that came from Girl Scout Cookies or have names that sound the same. Did it go extinct?
Dizzy

Dear Dizzy: The Cookies cannabis and lifestyle brand, founded on the back of the original Girl Scout Cookies strain, is still alive, and so are dozens of strains (Gelato, Do-Si-Dos, Wedding Cake and so on) bred with Girl Scout Cookies genetics and qualities. But the bigger commercial cannabis gets, the less you'll see dispensaries selling Girl Scout Cookies and other strains named after established products and entities.

Owners and rights holders to Girl Scout Cookies, Gorilla Glue, Oreos and Skittles have all sent legal warnings to dispensaries, growers and breeders over the years, demanding they cease and desist from selling weed-centric knockoffs. I can understand why Girl Scouts of the USA or Skittles would have a problem with cannabis being associated with their brands, especially when they're not getting a cut — although the Girl Scouts organization never seems to have a problem if a brewery riffs on the brand or when a little Girl Scout and her parent set up shop outside of a dispensary. (I'm not hating on the kids, either. It's cute. But there's a sprinkle of hypocrisy there.)

You'll still find the occasional dispensary holding firm with strains like Girl Scout Cookies or Gorilla Glue, but are more likely to find alter egos and acronyms.

Kenzie Bruce

You can also thank commercialization and botany for not seeing Girl Scout Cookies weed as often. The cannabis growing world quickly moves on to the next hot strain. Before Girl Scout Cookies was Blue Dream, and after that came Gorilla Glue. After both of them came Zkittles and GMO, and so on. Keeping a mother clone alive for a long time without mutations and health issues gets harder with time, too. So unless a grower was investing into tissue culture in the 2010s or still has a plug for fresh Girl Scout Cookies seeds/clones, it's hard to keep producing good buds from it.

You'll still find the occasional grower and pot shop holding firm with strains like Girl Scout Cookies or Gorilla Glue at their own risk, but you're more likely to find alter egos and acronyms like "GSC," "Cookies Kush" and the "Original Glue," or newer offspring with different (and un-trademarked) names, like Mochi and Peyote Cookies.

Herbert Fuego is the alias of a longtime Westword staffer. Send him questions through [email protected]

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