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Comparison

Durban Poison vs Blue Dream

Blue Dream is a sativa-dominant Blueberry × Haze hybrid from California; Durban Poison is a pure sativa from South Africa. Leafly lists myrcene as Blue Dream’s dominant terpene and terpinolene as Durban Poison’s.1,2 In state lab tests the two land close together: 19.45% median THC for Durban Poison and 19.96% for Blue Dream.3 In our terpene data, Durban Poison leads with terpinolene and Blue Dream with β-myrcene.3

Side by side

Durban PoisonBlue Dream
TypePure sativa2Sativa-dominant hybrid1
LineageA selected line of a South African landrace4,5Blueberry × Haze1
Median THC (state lab tests)19.45% (528 tests)19.96% (2,118 tests)
Middle half of THC results17.33%–21.99%17.62%–22.37%
Top terpenes (median)Terpinolene, β-Myrcene, β-Caryophyllene (235 tests)β-Myrcene, α-Pinene, β-Caryophyllene (483 tests)
Leafly’s top effectsFocused, energetic, uplifted2Creative, euphoric, happy1
Flavor (Leafly)Pine, earthy, sage2Berry, blueberry, sweet1
Leafly orders, 2025#19 (#6 in 2024)6#16

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

Lab-tested THC: Durban Poison vs Blue Dream

16% 18% 20% 22% 24% Blue Dream Blue Dream: median 19.96%, middle half 17.62%–22.37%, 2,118 tests 20.0% n=2,118 Durban Poison Durban Poison: median 19.45%, middle half 17.33%–21.99%, 528 tests 19.4% n=528 Median total THC (dot) and middle half of tests (bar)
Median and middle half of total THC in state lab tests.3

Rivals in Colorado

In 2015, BDS Analytics data put Blue Dream first and Durban Poison second among Colorado’s most popular strains, ahead of Alien Dawg.7

Which is easier to find

In Weedmaps snapshots from Oct 4, 2026 (Durban Poison) and Oct 3, 2026 (Blue Dream), 174 stores within 50 miles of Los Angeles listed Durban Poison flower on Weedmaps, against 293 stores for Blue Dream; around New York the counts were 79 and 129.8

Its own site

Blue Dream has its own guide in the Official Cannabis network at bluedream.com.

More comparisons

Sources

  1. Leafly, Blue Dream strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  2. Leafly, Durban Poison 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. AllBud, Durban Poison marijuana strain information and reviews. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  5. Weedmaps, Durban Poison strain page. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  6. Leafly, The best-selling weed strains of 2025 (2026-02-02). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  7. Westword, Blue Dream is Colorado’s most popular strain: here’s why. 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.