I feel like modern cannabis names have gone through phases over the last 150 years, and I’m curious to hear if others sense the same shift.
For a while, strains were kinda just named after the places they came from, or perhaps some remarkable attribute. “Nepalese purple indica.”
Then, some agency started to creep in, and the place named started acquiring people names. “Neville’s something something.”
Then strains started getting somewhat abstract names, things like Haze, or White Widow.
I feel like the latest craze is to name strains after things that sound horrible, “I’m crossing Permanent Marker with Urinal Cake, and then I’m going to hit that with Sour Glue and Chem, before taking it back to a cross of Shit I got from Bobbedyboosh Moogoosh, and going to backcross to Literally Heroin before I make an F1 with Baby Poo.”
Like…are you guys okay?! 
What’s your favorite"epoch" of cannabis taxonomy?
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I liked when they called it weed.
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Weed names are getting really weird. I hate that my favourite plant I have found in the last ten years is called unicorn poop but, I want to be responsible with lineage going forward so I now have to use this dumb ass name in conversations with respectable humans. Nice!
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If ppl get hold of a great heirloom, say, panama red or kona gold, from the 70s and 80s, yanno wot the first fucking thing i hear them say? “I’m gonna cross it with some Zkittlezz-Cakez”. Got yer stupid name plus you just diluted a great pheno. Why? All that candy named shit i buy at the dispos ain’t squat compared to the fabulous stuff i smoked in the '60s:'90s. Don’t get me very high, but it sure burns the throat. I must’ve tried 200 different phenos in the last 8 years, and i can’t remember the name of any of them. If there were any that were smooth and got me high, oh, I’d remember the name of it.
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I got some nice pure Hawaiian landraces I’m about to start towards fall puna budder ,Maui wowie
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I remember being around Stony Brook University circa 1998 when, “Blueberry,” hit the streets in large quantities. Man, promises made, promise delivered. “What’re we smoking today? Literally blueberries? That tracks…” Now you smoke wedding cake and it’s like…like a waxy birthday candle. Ew.
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LoL, you made me laugh out loud with that names, so true. I think modern polyhybrid “strains” just contain a lot of junk in their genetics. We need to re-open landraces, it is only they (and the nearest generations) contains a true magic.
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Era of names? Honestly there’s no better time than the present 
we have some of the stupidest names, sure, but lots of great ones too.
Over 25 yrs ago, when i was in my 20s, never did I think I’d be ordering weed by flavor Peanut Butter Breath, for example, easily my favorite strain & i think the name suits it perfectly. Headband was also aptly named IMO because it made me feel like i was in fact wearing a headband or headphones 
I remember hearing of “Alaskan Thunderfuck” and always thought that was a cool name, and IMO probably set the tone for all these weird names we now have. Purple Panty Dropper, Titty Twister, i mean cmon those names are ridiculous.
But yeah, anyways, i still say “now”. The best—and worst—names are right now.
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Blue Dream, AK47, Trainwreck, OG Kush, Chemdog, Jack Herer, White Widow
Basically the broader “turn of the century” era, early millenium era. Gorilla Glue is kinda the line of demarcation I use as the beginning of the modern/current era - same time as Cookies craze. Wild that Cookies is kinda lame in my opinion and that guy is a billionaire. GG never made the orginators truly rich, started a trademark war, and the guy behind it is ded. I love the smoke and flavor of GG.
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Blueberry was originally just called “the Kind”, but ultimately “the kind” notated really good smoke.
By consumers adopting the Blueberry moniker and NOT the breeder, i feel it set the tone for future strains being named for their perceived flavor and/or aroma.
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In my head i always hoped alaskan thunder fuck was also chosen because of the alcohol tobacco and firearms abbreviation, because its none of the three and i appreciate that sort of ridiculousness
Trainwreck is an example of a name that describes what it is on several levels
And unicorn poop is fantastic, lol.
You have to speak all the dialects haha
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