The Godfather Of Sour Diesel Pot Returns To New York
The Godfather Of Sour Diesel Pot Returns To New York
Joe Murray, the legendary grower behind the cult chronic Sour Diesel, made his name in the black market 20 years ago. Now he’s trying to find sweet success in a chaotic legal cannabis industry.
The man known in New York’s weed scene as “Asshole Joe,” a semi-affectionate moniker for the silver-haired, craggy-voiced 50-year-old pot legend Joe Murray, grew and sold cannabis in the city when it was really illegal. And he has the stories to prove it.
In 1994, a few years before Murray would popularize the cannabis varietal known as Sour Diesel, one of the most-sought-after strains of marijuana that fetched as much as $15,000 a pound back in the day, his best friend was brutally murdered—his head was bashed in with a hammer while trying to collect money owed to him. In the years that followed, Murray set up multiple cannabis grows in apartments in Manhattan, warehouses in Brooklyn, and one inside a Chinatown bordello. Whenever Snoop Dogg came to New York, Murray always had a special stash of the hip-hop mogul’s favorite bud called RBK.
Read the full story on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/willyakowicz/2024/02/04/the-godfather-of-sour-diesel-pot-returns-to-new-york/?sh=492c6d3c23a4
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Wea tf is the sour at?!?!
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Diesel strain sux to trim. It’s like grooming a Sasquatch
Sour Diesel is in my Top 5 Strains.
Haven’t seen in it about 10 years.
Miss It
AJ SourD and ECSD are not the same
🫡💯
15g a pound. Sure. Well, Americans may pay that but BC grown weed was the best at 3500 a pound.
I have his plant growing in my spot. Sour Diesel forever
The real diesel is still in Massachusetts for sure it’s on who u no
Fake Numbers !! Head fell out of a bale of weed ?😂🤣😅
Only a memory now. Back in 07-2012 I dont know what happened… but even reggie, mid was 🔥.. Sour, Loud, dro, purp, kush and upper strains was over kill. You couldnt finish a blunt
We grow Sour Diesel in New York and California! ⛽️
I smoked sour diesel from the legal shops and they dont even get me high.
Nonsense, it’s all chem dawg
Had some Weasels cut recently. Smelled skunky and it was great
what they are calling sour these days is absolutely not the same sour diesel from back in the day. marketing bs
Where you been?!! People are going crazy looking for you!! Put that sour diesel back in the streets!!!!! Thank you, The good people of New York City
He didn’t make Sour D lol
hes a LEGEND
finally some good news
Ehhhhh I dunno man I’ve heard a lot of different stories. This guy just seems to have a lot of Jew friends so he gets the media coverage.
Ny only sells greenhouse legally….until indoor is legalized dour will be thing on the past
Ferry play to him i live in Ireland and used to grow a bit of red diesel and it was great but can’t get the seeds anymore i wish Ireland would make it legal
Never liked Sour Diesel. The buzz wasn’t enjoyable.
#letsgrowtogether I am JJ Hawkins & AJ Sour Diesel talks about our Upstate Northern Lights before his Sour Diesel! Our Northern Lights was legendary even to todays standards, 1 Oz Buds $400 $1k a QP $3,400 a Lb if we knew we could of gotten more in the city we would have taken it there too! Virginia Tech paid $400 a Oz all the way up to $6,400 a Lb! Dr. Green Thumb says I can’t believe we’ve moved over 100k already this year ourselves and we had teams of guys all over the east coast moving it from 98-08 Lime Green nugs Orange hairs covered in frost 1 hit washed over my body like a waterfall instantly relaxing me from head to toe! I was a professional athlete martial artist sport bike riding import car engine building mad scientist first time I was able to focus on one thing in my life, I felt it instantly and had to have that in my life! My mentor Frog gave me a book in 98 called How to grow cannabis. I had been growing out door since 92 but this book opened my mind to many other methodologies and deficiencies nutrient types water lights temperature etc… I am forever in his families debt. Frog turned 75 this year! Mike is another mentor he’s 69 taught me a lot about hunting, growing, life in general! Gerald Brock taught me how to carry myself how to treat others how to build houses and how to be a great friend his son Jesse & I were like brothers at one time he’s the Godfather to my daughters and lifelong friend he taught me about cannabis buds and how to analyze the buds in 1997 when Joey sold me my first brick of seeded Mexican! Jesse said what do you see I said a brick of pot! He said no look closer, do you see those red hairs, Yes do you see the greenish brown plant material, Yes do you see those shiny things on the plant material, Yes Those shiny things are what gets you high! 1997 at 15 years old I was enlightened by this knowledge of this plant! Nobody had ever explained it like Jesse did! First time I met Jesse I was dragging him out of a motor vehicle accident where he was fighting with first responders because he didn’t want his pants cut 28inch bell bottoms worth thousands of dollars, I was a jr fireman called a Rescuer! I intervened and told the medics the bottoms were so big no need to cut them when all your trying to accomplish is visual inspection of lower extremities! They pulled up his pant legs saw no need to cut them no injuries visible! We been friends ever since! State police landed in my mentors back yard one year that’s a crazy story, We had a large warehouse grow in Albany but only 3 of us left alive good story! 30 story apartment building growing Northern Lights 20 Stories of grow 10 Stories of rental property and this is just the beginning!
15,000 a lb
Finance a time machine
2024 🎉
Sour Diesel is my all time favorite strain haven’t found any in years and found the reason the strain died out a few years ago was because of all cheap weed coming out of California at the time… I hope sour Diesel makes its way back into the market
It’s good no doubt about it but it’s not the same as back in the day the smell I remember one nug would stink up the entire house
Northern Lights and basically any kush variety is preferred. Organic only please.
I remember when sour hit the Bronx in the early 2000s and the cops were searching us and they found the sour D and smelled it and said “where did you get this from?” And I swear to everything the cop put it in his pocket and didn’t charge us
I grew clones from a cut of a Sour Diesel X AK47 that originated in the Philadelphia area back in the early 2000’s and it was by far the best pot i ever grew and smoked. Ever since then I have been looking for the real OG Sour D but have come up short. Many claim to have it but nothing has proven to compare to the real deal. I’m giving Humboldt SC’s Cali Sour D a try this grow cycle….we shall see…
I got some sour diesel a few months ago. We grew it at an indoor grow facility I work at located in Northern California. It didn’t taste good at all. But it smelled and looked amazing.
Whenever someone says they have sour diesel nowadays it generates an involuntary eye roll. There will never be anything like the original
Lies he is not the sourman and isn’t from dyckman new york !!! Cap cap cap
Sorry to say but the AJ Sour Diesel by Flowerhouse is a massive disappointment. Doesn’t smell or taste anything like the original..
Ajs sour d is literally the worst sour d cut and obviously not the real sour. 😊
I miss sour disel thers nottij like sour disel
Sour diesel was the first weed I smoked that was Reggie when I was 10
Lighting up a sour diesel joint now! Stay baked
Aj was growing chem,the chem hermed a bit ,produced a few seeds.Sour Deisel is simply chem bag seed but he was bold enough to push "diesel "
Ajs Sour Diesel is garbage
King of weed strain
I remember buying SD for 5-600$ a oz…..every gram back in 2007-8 was worth it
Your out of your mind saying Sour Diesel sold for 15,000, nothing ever sold for more than 60 per 1/8 in the 90’s, your full of sht, 420 per ounce tops.
If you try " Hash oil ? It is 99.99% pure THC … This is the strongest weed ever! It will put you under the table! You will be stoned for 48 hours easy! So , be careful with your usage and stay away from fentanyl overdose and all that bad karma!
Rez Dog is the breeder of Sour Diesel IBL 2000-2006
😮😮I had about 3,000 kilograms in my house now.. but I don’t know where to sell it.
$15,000 a pound is absurd. Nothing should have ever had that price.
That old school new your sour d. iykyk