The quirkiness of cannabis strain names is something similar to micro brew beer names. But since they are for strains. They are fun and make you think for a second, and ultimately maybe help you buy it and probably remember it as well. But it makes the whole thing overly complicated. And this is not considering all the recent phenotype variations that are also getting their own names. If you really are buying this stuff for medical relief or pleasure, you now need to go through a couple of charts to identify what the strain is and likely effects.

If proper naming convention were adopted, a lot of these questions would become obvious from the start.

It would be amazing to have a proper naming convention for strains in addition to the hippy-dippy brand names. These would not end up being cute, funny. But something more like a chemical compound.

Some crosses seam to follow a logical progression, like white widow and AK-47 which results in White Russian. But that's not always the case.