Euphoria Gorilla Glue CBD Hash 9 per cent, 1g

An adhesives company sued the breeders, and won a rename

In March 2017 the Gorilla Glue Company, an Ohio adhesives manufacturer, sued GG Strains, a Las Vegas cannabis breeder, over the use of its name on cannabis.

The complaint was not a token gesture. It pleaded trademark infringement, dilution, unfair competition and cybersquatting, brought under the federal Lanham Act, the Ohio Deceptive Trade Practices Act and Ohio common law.

The parties settled on 9 September 2017, and the rebranding took effect on the 19th. Gorilla Glue number four became GG4, also sold as Original Glue. Number five became GG5 or New Glue. Number one became GG1 or Sister Glue.

The agreement went further than the words. GG Strains and its licensees also agreed not to use gorilla imagery or anything else resembling the adhesive company's branding, which is why you rarely see an ape on a legitimate GG4 package.

And then the thing that always happens with names happened. Consumers largely ignored the change. Gorilla Glue was already too embedded in the culture to be legislated out of it, which is why a strain that officially has not been called that since 2017 is still called that almost everywhere.

What that settlement did, and what it did not do

This part matters, because it would be easy to read the section above as an accusation and it is not one.

The settlement bound GG Strains and its licensees. It was a private agreement in a United States dispute, and it did not make the words unusable by every party in every country. Plenty of European producers use the name, and doing so is not the same thing as breaching an agreement they were never party to.

What the settlement did do is make the name unreliable as an identifier. If the breeder who created the strain no longer calls it that, then a package saying Gorilla Glue tells you less about lineage than it appears to, because there is no longer a single authority behind the name.

So read it as a flavour and aroma reference rather than as a claim about genetics. That is true of most strain names on hash, and it is more obviously true of this one than of any other name on our shelf.

None of which is a reason not to buy the product. It is a reason to know what the word on the label is actually doing.

Where the name came from, and why it is funny on a hash

Gorilla Glue got its name from a practical problem. The plant produced so much resin that it gummed up trimming scissors, and the people handling it started comparing it to the adhesive. The name stuck, in both senses.

Which makes this particular product a small joke. Hash is resin. It is the resin separated from the plant and pressed. So a strain named for producing more resin than anyone could conveniently handle has been turned into a product that is nothing but the resin.

That is genuinely why the name persists in the cannabis world despite the settlement. It describes something real about the plant rather than being a marketing invention, and people who work with it have a reason to keep using it.

On aroma, the strain is generally described as heavy, earthy and pungent rather than sweet or fruity, which is what you would expect from something bred for resin rather than for a flavour profile. If you have been working through the sweeter names in this range, this is the other direction.

Nine per cent, in one paragraph

Nine per cent is the entry tier of Euphoria's ladder, which runs six, nine, nineteen, twenty-five and forty per cent across the range.

Our pages on the other pieces in this range do the arithmetic in full rather than each repeating it. The Jamaican Dream page, also at nine per cent, sets out why this tier suits someone starting out. The Candy Jack and Girl Scout Cookies pages work through what a percentage figure means on a one gram container and why the THC figures published across this range do not survive that arithmetic. All three are linked below.

The short version for this page: this is full spectrum, which is the grade that deliberately retains the plant's whole cannabinoid profile. The UK consumer test is a limit of one milligram of controlled cannabinoids per container, covering THC, THCV and CBN, and it is not a percentage. We hold no batch certificate for this piece, so we are not going to tell you it clears that limit or that it does not.

We stock this range on an explicit decision by the owner of this business, and we would rather set out the open question than print a reassurance we cannot evidence.

Where it sits, and what is actually available

Euphoria's hash range is large and thinly stocked at the moment, which is worth knowing before you settle on a specific name.

Eleven of the seventeen hash and solid hash lines we carry from this brand are currently unavailable, including this one. What is in stock sits mostly at the higher percentages, which is the opposite of what a first-time buyer wants.

If nine per cent is what you are after specifically, the Jamaican Dream piece is the same tier and its page explains the case for starting there.

Who should not buy this

If you are buying because you want the specific genetics behind GG4, a strain name on a European CBD hash is not a lineage guarantee, and this name in particular no longer has a single authority behind it. Read it as an aroma reference.

If you face drug testing of any kind, avoid full spectrum products across the board. That applies to the whole grade rather than to this piece in particular, and it applies more forcefully while no batch certificate exists.

If you want a sweet or fruity profile, this is the wrong name in the range. Gorilla Glue is described as heavy, earthy and pungent, and the sweeter names on our shelf are a better fit.

And if you want it today, this one is out of stock along with most of the range. The nine per cent tier is still represented by the Jamaican Dream piece, which is available and linked above.