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The Official Cannabis collection · sheet 32No 32 · Grease Monkeyvs Chemdawg

Comparison

Grease Monkey vs Chemdawg

Chemdawg reaches Grease Monkey through GG4, one of whose three parents is Chem’s Sister, a sativa-dominant variation of Chemdawg.1,2 Leafly rates Chemdawg mostly energizing and Grease Monkey mostly calming, and Grease Monkey tests about the same in state labs: 22.84% median THC against 22.94% for Chemdawg.3,4,5

Side by side

Grease MonkeyChemdawg
TypeHybrid; mostly calming per Leafly4Hybrid; mostly energizing per Leafly3
LineageGG4 × Cookies and Cream; Exotic Genetix4Thought to be Northern California bag seed; grown by Chemdog since 19913
Median THC (state lab tests)22.84% (576 tests)22.94% (668 tests)
Middle half of THC results19.39%–27.08%19.25%–25.37%
Top terpenes (median)β-Caryophyllene, Limonene, α-Humulene (55 tests)β-Caryophyllene, Limonene, β-Myrcene (389 tests)
Leafly’s top effectsRelaxed, sleepy, hungry4Euphoric, relaxed, tingly3
FlavorSkunk, earthy, pungent4Chemical, diesel, pungent3
Leafly THC listing22%418%3

Lab rows come from the same state lab dataset and matching rules for both strains.5

Lab-tested THC: Grease Monkey vs Chemdawg

18% 20% 22% 24% 26% 28% Chemdawg Chemdawg: median 22.94%, middle half 19.25%–25.37%, 668 tests 22.9% n=668 Grease Monkey Grease Monkey: median 22.84%, middle half 19.39%–27.08%, 576 tests 22.8% n=576 Median total THC (dot) and middle half of tests (bar)
Median and middle half of total THC in state lab tests.5

The Chem line in GG4

Leafly traces Chem’s Sister to 1996 and lists GG4 among its offspring; GG4 in turn is one of Grease Monkey’s two parents.1,2,4 Chemdawg has its own guide in the Official Cannabis network at chemdawg.com.

Which is easier to find

In Weedmaps snapshots from Oct 4, 2026 (Grease Monkey) and Oct 3, 2026 (Chemdawg), 24 stores within 50 miles of Los Angeles listed Grease Monkey flower on Weedmaps, against 79 stores for Chemdawg; around New York the counts were 24 and 39.6

More comparisons

Sources

  1. Leafly, GG4 (aka Glue, Original Glue) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  2. Leafly, Chem Sis (aka Chem’s Sister) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  3. Leafly, Chemdawg (aka Chemdog) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  4. Leafly, Grease Monkey strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  5. Cannlytics (CC BY 4.0), cannabis_results: public state lab results (filtered and aggregated by Official Cannabis). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  6. Weedmaps listings, compiled by Official Cannabis, Weedmaps flower menu snapshot, 27 US markets, Oct 4, 2026. Accessed Oct 4, 2026. Latest capture Oct 4, 2026.