you're after a EUPHORIC buzz. a lot of strains have that, and even have OTHER different qualities too. if you've been smoking a lot lately, you KNOW what couchlock is... it's that heavy tired feeling you get from most strains on the streets. it sounds like you're in one of those places where you can't get anything BUT stoner bud. i'll go through a bunch of strains i've either read a lot about or tried first hand to let YOU decide which ones sound the best to you.
starting with the stoniest ones first and working up the energy levels:
if you want a strain that gets you high & happy at first, but will creep up on you and put you to sleep after a couple hours,
LSD &
mataro blue are very similar smoking though my LSD was really short and maybe a more indica pheno than other's get. both have slight hints of grape flavor too. these are both reasonably low odor strains though my LSD had a slight sickengly sweet cat piss on flowers & grapes odor when you get really close to it that faded to nicer grapes later in flowering. my mataro blues grew taller & lankier than LSD and without the cat pissy early flowering.
jillybean is an huge favorite everywhere and most smokers love everything by TGA subcool. if you smoke a lot, it will put you to sleep. here, read up on a really good smoke report for it...
https://www.rollitup.org/smoke-reports/451875-uncured-tga-subcool-jillybean-smoke.html that should do a good job of putting a smile on your face if you want a buzz that's more of the "mellow out" end of the spectrum. the odor can be strong for jilly, but it's supposed to be more fruity than skunky.
some other strains that are more in the middle maybe that are known for euphoria include:
blueberry, bubblegum &
skunk #1. i've only tried skunk #1 & a couple blueberries and definitely liked them more than "nothing but stoned" strains, but i don't like ANY couchlock where most people at least tolerate it or even like it, especially for medical strains. the couchlock in these don't sound as extreme as jillybean's can be and blueberry & skunk were definitely more "mid" (in the middle buzzwise) than LSD & MB which do both extremes with heavy finishes. all three of these can get a little to really skunky from what i've read.. never grown any of them.
what smokes like a "true mid" to me is mandala's
8 miles high. i love that buzz as it has absolutely no energy effects if harvested early. (you'll get a stonier buzz out of anything the later you harvest it). it's a strain you can chill out on with movies or music, but that likes to get busy too. i ended up doing the robot to tunes on it and love how it gets everything "just right". it's playful & happy, but not as extreme as more sativa stuff can get. short stuff's super cali haze has a similar buzz that's probably a little more potent and trippy and yields lower & slower maybe, but combine it's buzz with it's delicious grape flavor, and you might not want to smoke anything ever again. i'll take both the high & flavor of this over blueberry every time as it's more authentic. blueberry has a very subtle flavor like you have a grain of artificial blueberry cereal sugar on your tongue.
i haven't tried
laughing buddha yet, but i bet a nickel it has more motivational qualities than jillybean. it's THE strain i most want to try for a euphoric buzz. this is where strains start getting really motivational and lower in odor too.
high quality seed's
haze x skunk is MY current indoor favorite. it's REALLY strong and very psychoactive. it has a little bit of stony lead eye unlike 8 miles high, but that's overpowered by it's creativity & motivation. it's a 12 week strain, but if you want some truly ass kicking potent old school bud, you could do far worse than this. there are many breeders out there that have haze skunk & haze x lemon skunk crosses that should be comparable or possible even better. i just know i WISH i had nothing but this to smoke after indoor strains ruined the street market. this is one that WILL give you the dreaded spinning room syndrome if you bus a couple woofing hits. this is the strain though that not only got me to quit drinking a 6 pack of 16s a night cold turkey, but that also started me dieting & exercising by simply ignoring hunger pangs and sticking with whatever fun i was having. it's a wicked long lasting buzz too and you can still feel it a little the next day. after a couple weeks of wake & baking on it, it started building up in my system so i'd be slightly buzzed all day even when i wasn't smoking with hints of low grade nausea that were easy to ignore by keeping busy. i bet it has great med use potential, but shouldn't be smoked by people that are naturally twitchy or paranoid as this one does give you paranoia as potent sativas will do
for a more clear headed and racy buzz that's reall only suitable for activities, kali mist & C99 are awesome. i'd rather smoke kali mist as it has a delicious spicy crushed red pepper flavor and higher euphoria than at least joey weed's discontinued C99s, but C99 finishes in just 45-55 days which few energetic strains do. i also think the euphoria level in KM might be higher. it's a lot like a shroom trip. BTW, if you want a REALLY euphoric buzz, you should try shrooming at least once. nothing tops that i've tried. i was given some at a concert and ended up walking home in the rain and not caring one bit and feeling at total peace with the universe without the speedy effects of KM & C99. i can see why people have religious experiences shrooming now. back to KM, i couldn't sit still on it to listen to tunes & ended up cleaning the house grinning ear to ear probably singing don't worry be happy. at that point, i missed getting high so much, i eventually begged to buy an eigth for $120 to no avail. those 2 strains are better suited to activities only... work, dates, or playing sports. forget blazing them & taking a nap! i like a more balanced and trippy buzz better as they let you listen to tunes, but would smoke KM & C99 over any street beasters any day.
other breeders have different C99s. JWs were very clear headed, racy, euphoric & creative with a slightly grape taste, but the "best" pheno of C99 is the infamous "potent pineapple" which mosca supposedly has now with a range of highs from stoney to trippy. i haven't tried anything but JWs so far & can't compare them.
something back to a mellower buzz you might like is JW's
C99 x A11 which will be more psychoactive & mellow. it sounds like a funner 24/7 strain. if you want to try that one, hurry as i think it will be off the market soon as JW dropped both C99 & A11 from his line and i expect it to vanish when it sells out too. i don't know where you could get
apollo 11 anymore but that's C99 x genius. it's a mellower stonier buzz with more psychoactivity, so the cross should be somewhere in the middle and be something you can function on though i haven't heard of A11 putting anyone to sleep yet
there are plenty of other strains out there that have euphoria and i think trippy sativas generally have euphoria in them as i've always enjoyed them and would rather smoke mexican brick than any sticky cash crapper strain.
i REALLY want to try world of seeds'
columbian gold to see if it measures up to the absolute best i've ever smoked even if it's 25% indica. i'd expect that one to be more visual than haze x skunk, and probably stonier too, but hopefully not sacrificing that light floating on air & walking downhill effect that gold has. HS isn't shabby, but gold just amps your senses up a little more even if it's not as potent though i'd expect it might gain some potency with the extra resin the indica in it brings. i used to laugh my ass off at the stupidest stuff on gold, have munchies orgasms, and see weird shit like TV looking like it's 3D. that's STILL the absolute best buzz if the knockoff could approximate it, but HS is anything but shabby, just more clear headed and motivational. then again, i never hit that as deep as i used to in the old days which is how you get the trippiest buzz.
there, that should cover a wide range of buzzes for you to pick from and i'm sure others will weigh in on the stuff they've tried too. as euphoric as jillybean is, i bet
romulan is a happy strain too, but i don't like the sound of either it's couchlock or skunkiness, but everyone's tastes are different.
diesel strains are really popular and have nice buzzes, but i think they're about the most disgusting tasting to the point of being hard to smoke. i bought some bud i KNOW was diesel something by the taste and grew out some
onyx that was diesel too. it literally tastes like you scraped up some truck stop oil stain and started smoking it. i hada hard time even blazing it it was so foul to me, but loved the buzz! it was playful & euphoric and particularly sensual. for some reason it kept making me play footsie with myself. that might just be the best buzz to get laid on! i just can't get past the flavor
speaking of bad flavors... i can't stand the taste of licorice either, but
durban poison literally tastes like you're smoking a stick of licorice! it's supposed to be really trippy, but i found it milder than gold and more of a happy motivational buzz with a neutral energy level. it was hard to take big hits on as it expands like a mofo making you woof and for me, it induced dry heaves. i bet that's where it gets it's poison name from. i like the flavor better than diesel though as it's at least "natural" and would even gladly dry heave on it again if it were the only bud i could find to get high on. if you like licorice, it's a really exotic strain with a great old school buzz.
sativa seeds has an oaxican mexican sativa that's described as being euphoric too call
eldorado. i'll have to test it and report back as i have beans waiting to get popped. they're a good source for sativas n the cheap. i have some of their 25% NL#5 urban poison (indoor city?) i wanted to test & breed for fun too and back when their nirvana line still had H19 skunk, i could see it looked more IBL than high quality seeds verson and might have been trippier with less to no lead eye or that mild cigar wrapper taste i didn't like about HxS.
