What Customers Are Saying
No Durban Poison reviews in the pool yet, so these are verbatim reviews of the THCa cart line. They are real and unedited, pulled from this product’s review feed rather than written for the page.
★★★★★
“Very smooth and enjoyable! Already ordered again.”
Jon A.
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“Great product which is easy on the lungs. Will order again.”
Lawrence C.
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“Great effects and fast service”
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“We order twice a month they are always helpful and the products are great”
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“Pleasant, tasty and gets the job done!”
Emily H.
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“This is the REAL DEAL. Excellent.”
Daniel H.
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6,000+ Verified Reviews
Average 4.8 / 5 stars across the catalog.
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Founded in 2017 and still woman-run.
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What Is Inside the Durban Poison Cart
One gram of Durban Poison live resin and the terpenes that came off the same plant, in hardware cool enough to keep the fragile one. Terpinolene leading a profile is uncommon, and it is the whole reason this cart tastes like anise rather than pine alone.
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Live Resin THCa
A full gram, frozen at harvest so the anise note survives the trip into the tank.
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Terpinolene
Leads, which is rare. Piney and faintly floral, and the first thing heat takes away.
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Beta-Myrcene
Second, and the only thing here supplying weight. It keeps the clarity from tipping into edge.
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d-Limonene
Third, adding the citrus that sits over the pine rather than under it.
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Ceramic Core, 510 Thread
Even heat at low voltage, on a thread that fits whatever battery you own.
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Nothing But Oil and Terps
No PG, no VG, no MCT oil, no Vitamin E acetate. Oil and terpenes, and nothing stretching either one.
Science Corner: Why Most Strain Names Tell You Nothing
Durban Poison is one of the few strain names that actually predicts what is in the jar, and there is a study that explains why that is unusual. A 2022 paper in PLoS ONE analysed the cannabinoid and terpene content of commercial cannabis across six US states. The researchers found distinct chemical phenotypes that show up reliably, then compared those against the labels the industry sells them under. The labels did not consistently line up with the chemistry, though some showed a biased association with particular chemotypes. Read that the right way round: chemotypes are real, the names attached to them mostly are not. A terpinolene-forward landrace sits in a small, well-defined corner of that space, which is why this one keeps tasting like itself. PubMed PMID 35588111.
How It Works and How Much To Start With
Inhaled effects land in about two minutes and finish arriving by fifteen, which makes a cart easy to judge by feel. On Durban Poison the whole thing happens in the head, so there is no second wave to wait for and no reason to keep drawing while you look for one.
One draw, ten minutes, then decide. Overshooting a pure sativa reads as restlessness rather than heaviness, and restlessness is the harder of the two to sit through. Effects taper across two to three hours.
| Format | Onset | How long | Character |
| Durban Poison THCa cart, sold here | 2 to 5 minutes | 2 to 3 hours | Head only, no body half |
| Durban Poison THCa disposable | 2 to 5 minutes | 2 to 3 hours | Identical oil and curve |
| THCa flower | Under 2 minutes | 1 to 2 hours | Quickest on, shortest tail |
| THCa prerolls | Under 2 minutes | 1 to 2 hours | Same lift, fixed dose |
| Delta 8 carts | 2 to 5 minutes | 2 to 3 hours | Considerably milder |
| Edibles | 30 to 90 minutes | 4 to 6 hours | Slowest on, hardest to judge |
Third-party lab tested, results on our lab page.
Already own a 510 battery? This is the cheapest gram of it we sell.
Durban Poison THCa Cart FAQ
A full gram of Durban Poison live resin THCa on a 510 thread, one strain and nothing cut into it. Durban Poison is a landrace, which means it developed in one place over a long stretch of time without anyone crossbreeding it into something else. Most things sold as sativas today are hybrids leaning one direction. This one genuinely isn’t, and that shows up in how narrow and consistent the effect is. Live resin extraction matters here because the anise note sits in the volatile end of the profile and a drying rack takes it first. Any 510 battery runs it. You will also see this typed durban poision, durbin poison or just DP, and every one of those spellings lands on this page.
Sweet pine and citrus with a liquorice edge underneath, and that anise note is the tell. Very few strains have it, so once you know what you are tasting it’s hard to mistake Durban Poison for anything else on a menu. There’s earth behind the sweetness rather than gas or cream, and nothing about it reads dessert. People who find fruity carts sickly after a week tend to land here and stay, because the profile is savoury enough to keep. On a cart the anise comes through more clearly than it does on flower, since there’s no combustion smoke sitting over the top of it. If you have only met this strain as flower, the cart is a cleaner read on it.
Terpinolene is the terpene doing the piney, faintly floral work at the front of every draw, and it is rare as a lead. Most cannabis on the market is dominated by myrcene, limonene or caryophyllene. Terpinolene-forward chemotypes are a small corner of the field, and Durban Poison is the one most people have actually met. If you’ve never noticed the note before, you haven’t been drinking much nutmeg. It is also found in nutmeg, apples and tea tree, which is roughly the register it brings. Because terpinolene sits at the volatile end of the range, it’s the first thing you lose to heat, so this is the cart where running low voltage changes what you actually taste rather than just how big the cloud is. Treat the dial as a flavour control.
Morning, and it is the clearest example of a daytime strain we carry. People describe it as alert and clear-headed with the senses turned up, which is different from the wired feeling a lot of sativas produce. There’s no heaviness underneath waiting to arrive, and that’s what people mean when they call it clean. That makes it the cart for a working day rather than a wind-down, and it is the one I would hand someone who says sativas make them jittery, because the clarity is the point here rather than the stimulation, and those aren’t the same thing. If you want something that lets the day close down instead, King Louis XIII is at the opposite end of the menu entirely, and the two make a sensible pair to own together.
It sits in the same 22 to 28% THCa band as every cart in the line, so potency is not the variable here. Direction is. The effect goes almost entirely to the head, arrives quickly, and does not develop a body component later the way a hybrid would. People sometimes read that as weaker when it’s really just narrower, and narrow isn’t a complaint. One draw, ten minutes, then decide, same as anything else. Where Durban Poison differs is that overdoing a pure sativa tends to produce restlessness rather than heaviness, and restlessness is the harder of the two to sit through. Stop earlier than you think you need to, and give it the full ten minutes before you reconsider that.
A single full-gram cart is $60. Two are $100 and three are $150, which saves $20 and $30 against buying them one at a time. Subscribe and save takes 20 percent off the first order and 15 percent off every one after, and you can stop it whenever. There’s no battery in the box, because most people buying 510 carts already have one. If you don’t, our batteries page carries four that fit. Per gram this is the cheapest route into the strain once hardware is handled. On a first purchase the all-in-one pen works out better, since it arrives with the battery included and nothing else to source. After that first one the cart is cheaper every single time you reorder it.
Any 510 battery fits, and low voltage matters more on this cart than on most. Our battery guide puts the low band at 2.5 to 3.0 volts, and terpinolene is the most heat-fragile terpene in the profile, so running hot removes the exact thing that makes this cart taste like Durban Poison rather than generic pine. Everything else in the profile survives the heat. That one doesn’t, and you’ll notice. Thread it finger-tight and no further, because overtightening is the usual reason a cart won’t fire at all. All four batteries we sell run adjustable voltage and carry a one-year warranty. Charge yours fully before the first draw, since a low battery quietly delivers less than the setting on it says it will.
Yes, and there’s no version of this answer that gets you around it. Urine panels screen for THC metabolites and cannot tell a hemp-derived product from anything else, so being federally compliant makes no difference to a lab result. How long it stays detectable comes down to how often you use it, your body composition and where the panel sets its threshold. Occasional use often clears in a few days. Daily use can register for weeks, and there’s no reliable way to speed that up. If a test is coming and the outcome matters, skip this product rather than trying to time it. That advice costs us the order and we would still rather give it than have you find out the hard way.
In most states, yes. Hemp-derived products holding under 0.3 percent Delta 9 THC by dry weight sit inside the 2018 Farm Bill, and this cart is one of them. States write their own rules on top of the federal baseline, and some restrict THCa or hemp vapes on their own terms regardless of it. Our shipping list stays current and checkout will stop the order if we can’t reach your address, which makes it a far better answer than a page written weeks ago. You need to be 21 or older. Orders leave the facility within 48 hours, so nothing sits waiting on our end. If you’re unsure where you stand, put it in the cart and enter your address to find out.
The oil is the same, so this is a hardware question rather than a quality one. This cart is a gram on a 510 thread and needs a battery you supply, which makes it the cheapest per gram over time. The Durban Poison THCa disposable is the same oil in an all-in-one that arrives charged, so it starts at the same price with nothing else to buy. If you’re new to this, take the disposable. If you’re restocking, take the cart. The strain profile covers the landrace history, and Tropicana Cookies is the citrus-forward sativa sitting next to it if anise isn’t what you were after. Same oil quality, different register entirely, and plenty of people keep one of each in rotation.
Sweet pine, citrus and anise, in the format that costs the least per gram.
Keep Exploring
Four places to go next, depending on what you were actually after. The pen version of this strain, the batteries that fit, two other sativas, and the lab page.
Durban Poison Profile →
Landrace history, terpene order, and why pure sativa is rare.
Durban Poison Disposable →
Same oil, battery built in and charged when it lands.
All THCa Carts, 12 Strains →
The whole cart menu, plus the two and three pack pricing.
510 Batteries →
All four we sell, adjustable voltage, one-year warranty.
Tropicana Cookies Cart →
The citrus sativa beside this one. Sweeter, less pine.
Sour Diesel THCa Cart →
Fuel rather than anise, and sharper about waking you up.
Every Sativa We Make →
Carts, pens and flower, filtered to sativas only.
Certificates of Analysis →
Current third-party lab results for the whole catalog.
