ATF: The Alaskan Strain With A Name Too Wild For YouTube

ATF is one of the most legendary heritage weed strains in history, and this video tells the story of the frozen Alaskan sativa with a name too explicit to say on YouTube. It covers where the strain really came from, its mysterious genetics, its potent daytime high, and the honest truth behind its wild reputation and its unspeakable name. It is honest throughout about the strain's completely unknown genetics, the difficulty of finding an authentic version, and the myth that it was the strongest weed ever. What's covered in this video: Why the strain is abbreviated ATF, and how its full name is far too profane to say out loud on YouTube. What ATF actually is, a legendary sativa-dominant strain with frosty, spade-shaped, orange-haired buds. Its unforgettable Christmas-tree aroma of sharp pine, lemon, menthol, and skunk. Its potent, energetic, clear-headed daytime high, a famous wake-and-bake strain with a creeper effect and a big appetite boost. The strain's origin in Alaska's Matanuska Valley, a farming region near Anchorage famous for growing record-breaking, hundred-pound cabbages under nineteen hours of summer sun. How High Times put the strain on the map in the nineteen seventies, including the legendary claim that it grew right through the snow. Alaska's surprising nineteen seventy-five ruling that protected the private use of weed at home. The complete mystery of its genetics, and why the common Northern California, Russian, and Afghani lineage is just legend, not proven fact. How its clone-only nature means most ATF sold today probably isn't the original strain at all. The claim from Alaskan old-timers that ATF may never have been one single strain, just a name for great local weed. The years-long hunt to find the one authentic cut, including a DNA test with no definitive proof. The honest myth-bust on its potency, and why it almost certainly was not the strongest weed ever. Its massive cultural legacy, from a famous RuPaul's Drag Race queen's stage name to a song by the rapper Afroman. Mentioned in this video: ATF, Matanuska Thunder, Matanuska Tundra, Alaska, Matanuska Valley, Anchorage, High Times, Northern Lights, RuPaul's Drag Race, Afroman.