Lychee Goji Berry Tea: The Strain We Named LGBT

The Name That Named Itself

Nick walked into a tasting meeting in March with a new profile he'd been working on. Lychee on the front, goji berry in the middle, a jasmine tea finish that lingered longer than you'd expect from a distillate cart. We liked it immediately. Someone wrote the initials on the whiteboard to shorthand the name, and the room went quiet for about three seconds.

Lychee. Goji. Berry. Tea.

LGBT.

It wasn't planned. We didn't reverse-engineer the name from the acronym, and nobody sat around brainstorming Pride-themed strain names. The flavor profile wrote the name, and the name wrote itself. Once we saw it, we couldn't unsee it, and honestly we didn't want to. June was two months away. The history of why cannabis is legal in California is inseparable from queer activism, from the Castro to Prop 215 to the dispensary model itself. So we leaned in.

Here's what's actually in the cart, why each piece matters, and where the money goes.

The Lineage: Pink Rozay x Runtz

Lychee Goji Berry Tea is a hybrid descended from the Lychee strain, which is itself a cross of Pink Rozay and Runtz. Both parents are worth knowing because they explain why this one tastes the way it does.

Pink Rozay is a Cookies Fam indica known for its rose-petal and berry nose, a dense floral profile driven by high Linalool and Myrcene. It's the parent responsible for the creamy, slightly floral base that sits underneath everything else in the cart. If you've had Pink Rozay flower and noticed that calm, settling quality it carries, that's what's showing up in the back half of this strain's effect.

Runtz needs less introduction. It's a Zkittlez x Gelato hybrid that brings candy-sweet fruit flavor with balanced, uplifting effects. Runtz contributes the goji berry brightness and the uplifted component of the high. If Pink Rozay is the foundation, Runtz is the color.

The combination produces something that doesn't taste like either parent in isolation. The lychee note on the front end is distinctly its own, a sweet tropical stone fruit character that you won't find in most Pink Rozay or Runtz phenotypes. The jasmine tea finish comes from the interplay between the parents' terpene profiles at specific ratios, which is worth looking at more closely.

Terpene Profile: Limonene, Myrcene, and Bisabolol

The terpene blend in Lychee Goji Berry Tea is Limonene-led, with Myrcene and Bisabolol rounding it out. Each one does a specific job in this combination.

Limonene is the primary terpene, and it's doing most of the heavy lifting on flavor and effect. It's the citrus terpene you'd recognize from lemon peel or orange rind, but in this profile it expresses more as sweet tropical citrus than sharp lemon. Research on Limonene associates it with mood elevation and stress relief, and it's the main reason this strain lands uplifted before it lands relaxed. If you've had a Limonene-forward strain before and felt that clean, head-up energy, that's what's driving the front end here.

Myrcene is the second terpene, and it's doing the opposite job. Where Limonene pushes you up, Myrcene pulls you down (gently, in this ratio). It's the most common terpene in cannabis, responsible for that warm body settling you get in most indicas, and in Lychee Goji Berry Tea it tempers the Limonene lift into something more balanced. You feel uplifted but not wired, relaxed but not couch-locked. The ratio between these two is where the hybrid character actually lives.

Bisabolol is the quiet third. It's the terpene in chamomile, which is partly why this strain has a tea-like finish, and it contributes a soft floral sweetness that smooths out the experience on the back end. If you've ever wondered why some strains finish with that calm, warm fade and others just drop off, the presence or absence of Bisabolol is often the answer.

The Effect: Uplifted and Relaxed, in That Order

At 92% THC, Lychee Goji Berry Tea hits with a noticeable onset. The Limonene lands first, a clean head-up lift that brightens the room a little. Within a few minutes the Myrcene and Bisabolol round out the edges and you settle into something more even. The word "balanced" gets overused in strain descriptions, but this one earns it: you're present and uplifted without being speedy, relaxed without melting into the furniture.

Time of day: late afternoon to evening for most people. It's too relaxing for a morning session if you need to focus, but not sedating enough for a bedtime knockout. The sweet spot is after work, outside if you can manage it, with something to eat nearby. The appetite stimulation from the Myrcene is real and arrives about 30 minutes in.

Dose note: one or two hits is enough for most people to feel the full profile. More than that and the Myrcene tends to take over, which shifts the experience toward heavier relaxation. If you're after the balanced uplifted-and-relaxed zone, start low and let it build. (If you're newer to vapes and not sure where to start, we wrote a guide to choosing a cart that covers the basics.)

Why We Named It LGBT

Here's Nick on the decision:

"The name wasn't a marketing stunt. The strain is called Lychee Goji Berry Tea because that's what it tastes like. When we realized the initials spelled LGBT, we had a choice: pretend we didn't notice, or own it. We chose to own it, because the reason any of us are in this industry traces back to queer activists in San Francisco who built the legal framework while they were dying of AIDS. Dennis Peron and the Cannabis Buyers Club are why Prop 215 happened. That's not ancient history, that's the foundation under every dispensary shelf in California."

We wrote a longer piece on that history last week. The short version: California cannabis owes a direct debt to LGBTQ+ activism, and naming a strain LGBT without acknowledging that debt would have been hollow.

So we put money behind it.

Where the Money Goes: LYRIC

10% of profits from every Lychee Goji Berry Tea sale go to LYRIC (Lavender Youth Recreation & Information Center) in San Francisco. LYRIC has been serving LGBTQ+ youth since 1988 with housing support, mental health services, and leadership programs for young people who need them.

They're six blocks from where Dennis Peron ran the Cannabis Buyers Club on Market Street. The geography isn't a coincidence. We've been supporting LYRIC for four years now and it's one of our favorite things we do all year.

We're not pretending a percentage of one strain's profits is transformative. It's the smallest gesture that makes sense, not the biggest. What matters is that it goes to a place that's been doing the work for almost 40 years, in the same city where the legal cannabis industry started, for the community that started it.

How to Enjoy Lychee Goji Berry Tea

Setting: outdoors, late afternoon, something to eat within reach. This strain rewards a slow session, not a rushed one.

Temperature: start low. The jasmine tea finish is subtle, and higher temps will burn through the terpenes that produce it. If your device has adjustable voltage, stay at the low end and work up.

Pairing: fruit-forward food (lychee itself, mango, peach), iced tea (yes, literally), or something savory if you're chasing the Myrcene appetite curve.

Storage: store upright when not in use. This is a high-THC cart with oil thick enough that gravity matters over time.

Where to Find Lychee Goji Berry Tea in California

Lychee Goji Berry Tea is available now as a high-THC all-in-one disposable, built on the same smooth, anti-clog hardware Halara uses across the California line. Find it on dispensary menus through our store locator, or search "Halara Lychee Goji Berry Tea" on Weedmaps.

If your local shop doesn't carry it yet, ask a budtender to request it. Halara is distributed through Up North in California, and they can get it on the shelf.