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Khalifa Kush strain: what the lab panels show
Khalifa Kush is the OG Kush selection widely told as developed for the artist Wiz Khalifa. It is a licensed brand, and the Medizin cultivation team grows the strain in-house; at Best in Grass Nevada 2025 its flower took First Place in the hybrid flower category. Among the products on the Las Vegas superstore's shelf that carry a lab panel, Khalifa Kush comes as one flower, one pre-roll, one vape and two concentrates from the brand Khalifa Kush.
What it is
By the widely told account, Khalifa Kush is an OG Kush selection developed to the artist's own specification and kept private for years before it went commercial; that is the circulated history, not a lab fact. The brand page covers the partnership.
What is a matter of record: at Best in Grass Nevada 2025, a competition judged anonymously, at home, by everyday consumers, the Khalifa Kush flower the Medizin team grew took First Place in the hybrid flower category, and Khalifa Mints, from the same program, took Third Place in indica flower. What we can state beyond that is what a lab measured: the batches on our shelf now, when a batch is in, and the ones we wrote this guide from, below.
What is on our shelf now
Among the products on the Las Vegas superstore's shelf that carry a lab panel, Khalifa Kush comes as one flower, one pre-roll, one vape and two concentrates from the brand Khalifa Kush. The flower tests 25.3% THC, the pre-roll tests 24.3% THC, the vape tests 79.2% THC and the concentrates test 73.9% to 74.3% THC. Vapes and concentrates are extracts, so their THC reads far higher than plain flower's. Limonene leads three of its five panels (bright citrus, lemon and orange peel, in the terpene guide's words). Our per-batch grade, set by each panel rather than by the name, calls the batches on our shelf indica or indica-hybrid.
| Product | Format | THC | Leading terpenes | Our grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Khalifa Kush Khalifa Kush 3.5g Prepack | Flower | 25.3% | caryophyllene 0.50%, limonene 0.50%, myrcene 0.36% | Indica |
| Khalifa Kush Khalifa Kush 1g Preroll | Pre-roll | 24.3% | caryophyllene 0.45%, limonene 0.44%, linalool 0.32% | Indica |
| Khalifa Kush Khalifa Kush .5g Live Resin Vape Cartridge | Vape | 79.2% | limonene 3.45%, myrcene 2.74%, linalool 0.95% | Indica-Hybrid |
| Khalifa Kush Khalifa Kush .5g Live Resin Badder | Concentrate | 74.3% | limonene 1.30%, myrcene 1.25%, caryophyllene 1.04% | Indica |
| Khalifa Kush Khalifa Kush .5g Live Rosin | Concentrate | 73.9% | limonene 2.22%, myrcene 2.22%, caryophyllene 1.15% | Indica |
From our latest menu update. The grade is the five-class spectrum, read from each batch's own panel; the product page always shows the current batch. Search Khalifa Kush on the live menu.
What the panels showed when we wrote this guide
The 3.5g flower tested 24.8% THC on 18.9 mg/g of terpenes, with myrcene at 0.44% just ahead of caryophyllene, and graded indica; the Khalifa Yellow 14g smalls tested 27.9% THC with caryophyllene first, and graded indica too. The live rosin carried 87 mg/g of terpenes with limonene and myrcene tied at 2.22%, and graded indica-hybrid. The live resin cart put myrcene first at 2.85%, at 83% THC, and the live resin badder put linalool first at 1.21%; both graded indica. The 1g pre-roll led with caryophyllene and graded indica-hybrid.
What that means for you
Across the six products we wrote this guide from, four graded indica and two indica-hybrid, and the lead terpene changed with the product: myrcene on the flower and the cart, linalool on the badder, caryophyllene on the smalls and the pre-roll, limonene and myrcene together on the rosin. The award category is the class the flower was entered in; each batch's grade is read from its own panel on the five-class spectrum.
Questions people ask about Khalifa Kush
Is Khalifa Kush indica or sativa?
Its 2025 award came in the hybrid flower category, the class it was entered in. Our per-batch grade, set by each panel rather than by the name, calls the batches on our shelf indica or indica-hybrid.
How strong is Khalifa Kush?
The flower tests 25.3% THC, the pre-roll tests 24.3% THC, the vape tests 79.2% THC and the concentrates test 73.9% to 74.3% THC. Vapes and concentrates are extracts, so their THC reads far higher than plain flower's. THC is a batch figure, not a property of the name, so the next batch can differ.
What does Khalifa Kush smell and taste like?
Limonene leads three of its five panels (bright citrus, lemon and orange peel, in the terpene guide's words). Terpenes are a large part of a strain's smell and flavor, which is why we read the panel rather than the name; sulfur compounds a terpene panel does not measure add the skunky note some strains carry.
What effects does Khalifa Kush have?
Effects vary from person to person and from batch to batch, so we do not promise any. What a panel tells you is the chemistry: which terpenes lead, and the grade it earns on the five-class spectrum, shown in this page's shelf table for each batch whose panel carries them.
Who grows Khalifa Kush?
Khalifa Kush is a licensed brand; the Medizin cultivation team grows the strain in-house.
Where can I buy Khalifa Kush in Las Vegas?
At Planet 13's Las Vegas superstore, where today's shelf includes one flower, one pre-roll, one vape and two concentrates of it with a lab panel. The shelf changes batch to batch, so search the live menu before you visit.
Lab figures, when a batch is on our shelf, come from its panel and change batch to batch; the product page always shows the current panel. Effects vary by person; nothing here is medical advice. For use only by adults 21 and older.