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Comparison

Durban Poison vs Jack Herer

Jack Herer is a sativa-dominant Sensi Seeds strain that combines a Haze hybrid with a Northern Lights #5 × Shiva Skunk cross; Durban Poison is a pure sativa from South Africa. Leafly lists terpinolene as the dominant terpene of both, and its users report focused and energetic effects for both.1,2 In state lab tests the two land close together: 19.45% median THC for Durban Poison and 19.59% for Jack Herer.3 Both lead with terpinolene in our terpene data.3

Side by side

Durban PoisonJack Herer
TypePure sativa2Sativa-dominant1
LineageA selected line of a South African landrace4,5A Haze hybrid × a Northern Lights #5 and Shiva Skunk cross (Sensi Seeds)1
Median THC (state lab tests)19.45% (528 tests)19.59% (910 tests)
Middle half of THC results17.33%–21.99%17.13%–22.00%
Top terpenes (median)Terpinolene, β-Myrcene, β-Caryophyllene (235 tests)Terpinolene, β-Caryophyllene, α-Humulene (413 tests)
Leafly’s top effectsFocused, energetic, uplifted2Focused, energetic, creative1
Flavor (Leafly)Pine, earthy, sage2Pine, woody, earthy1
Flowering7–9 weeks (Leafly)250–70 days (Leafly)1

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

Lab-tested THC: Durban Poison vs Jack Herer

16% 18% 20% 22% Jack Herer Jack Herer: median 19.59%, middle half 17.13%–22.00%, 910 tests 19.6% n=910 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

The terpinolene pair

Terpinolene leads in only five of the 44 strains in our dataset with at least 10 tests reporting individual terpenes, and these are two of them, with medians of 0.93% for Durban Poison and 0.51% for Jack Herer.3 A 2022 study of US commercial cannabis found about twice as many sativa-labelled products in its high-terpinolene group as in the other groups.6

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Sources

  1. Leafly, Jack Herer 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. PLOS ONE, The phytochemical diversity of commercial Cannabis in the United States (Smith, Vergara, Keegan and Jikomes) (2022). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.