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The Official Cannabis collection · sheet 63No 63 · GMO Cookiesvs Blue Cheese

Comparison

GMO Cookies vs Blue Cheese

Leafly’s editors call GMO pot’s equivalent of rowdy blue cheese, and Blue Cheese is the strain named for the taste: a Blueberry × UK Cheese indica whose Leafly flavors are blue cheese, cheese and pungent.1,2 GMO tests about the same in state labs: 26.74% median THC against 25.93% for Blue Cheese.3

Side by side

GMO CookiesBlue Cheese
TypeIndica-dominant hybrid; mostly calming per Leafly4Indica; mostly calming per Leafly2
LineageChemdawg (Chem D) × Girl Scout Cookies (Forum cut)4,5Blueberry × UK Cheese (a Skunk #1 phenotype)2
Median THC (state lab tests)26.74% (2,159 tests)25.93% (288 tests)
Middle half of THC results23.46%–29.83%24.27%–26.87%
Top terpenes (median)Limonene, β-Myrcene, β-Caryophyllene (456 tests)Too few tests report individual terpenes
Leafly’s top effectsRelaxed, sleepy, euphoric4Sleepy, relaxed, hungry2
FlavorChemical, pepper, pungent4Blue cheese, cheese, pungent2
Leafly THC listing28%418%2

Lab rows come from the same state lab dataset and matching rules for both strains.3

Lab-tested THC: GMO Cookies vs Blue Cheese

22% 24% 26% 28% 30% GMO Cookies GMO Cookies: median 26.74%, middle half 23.46%–29.83%, 2,159 tests 26.7% n=2,159 Blue Cheese Blue Cheese: median 25.93%, middle half 24.27%–26.87%, 288 tests 25.9% n=288 Median total THC (dot) and middle half of tests (bar)
Median and middle half of total THC in state lab tests.3

The savory shelf

GMO’s own children carry the cheese note: Leafly lists blue cheese among the top flavors of Garlic Breath and Garlic Juice.6,7 One lab supplied 91.0% of Blue Cheese’s test results, so its median leans on a single lab’s methods.3 Blue Cheese has its own guide in the Official Cannabis network at bluecheese.com.

Which is easier to find

In Weedmaps snapshots from Oct 4, 2026 (GMO Cookies) and Oct 3, 2026 (Blue Cheese), 193 stores within 50 miles of Los Angeles listed GMO Cookies flower on Weedmaps, against 44 stores for Blue Cheese; around New York the counts were 93 and 0.8

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Sources

  1. Leafly, Leafly’s 100 best weed strains of all time (2026-07-14). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  2. Leafly, Blue Cheese strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  3. Cannlytics (CC BY 4.0), cannabis_results: public state lab results (filtered and aggregated by Official Cannabis). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  4. Leafly, GMO Cookies (aka Garlic Cookies, GMO Garlic Cookies) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  5. Weedmaps, GMO Cookies (aka Garlic Mushroom Onion) strain page. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  6. Leafly, Garlic Breath strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  7. Leafly, Garlic Juice strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  8. Weedmaps listings, compiled by Official Cannabis, Weedmaps flower menu snapshot, 27 US markets, Oct 4, 2026. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.