Decade

Cannabis strains from the 1990s

The 1990s were the Cannabis Cup decade. High Times had launched the competition in Amsterdam in 1988, but the 1990s turned it into a global trade show that effectively named the strains a generation of growers would chase. Shantibaba, Neville Schoenmakers, and Howard Marks released White Widow through Greenhouse Seeds in 1995 and watched it sweep the Cup. Serious Seeds' AK-47 dropped in 1992 and won the sativa Cup in 1999, while Sensi Seeds' Jack Herer took the coffeeshop crown in 1994. The Haze brothers' original Mexican-Colombian-Thai-Indian polyhybrid was crossed into Northern Lights to produce Super Silver Haze, and DJ Short's long Blueberry stabilization project finally went public. American clones — Chemdawg, Trainwreck, Cinderella 99 — cross-pollinated Dutch breeding programs throughout the decade, setting up the OG era to come.