Two cold-cure rosins. One shared lineage. One shop.
Nature's Lab is dropping limited quantities of Toad Venom and Demon Toad at Squintz | Foreign, a pair of fire, cold-cure live rosin releases crafted from the Toad Venom lineage.
On July 7th, 2026 at 4:00 PDT, California hash maker Nature's Lab brings Toad Venom and Demon Toad solventless products to Squintz | Foreign in Winnetka as part of a small batch release available exclusively through Weedmaps.
The pop-up centers around the genetics behind Toad Venom, a loud, flavor-forward cultivar family that's earned a loyal following in California hash circles.
Toad Venom combines Sin Mintz x Animal Face genetics into a profile that swings between sweet mint-cookie notes, creamy fuel, earthy kush, and lingering funk. Demon Toad stacks on that foundation by crossing Toad Venom with Sin Mintz F2, pushing deeper into mint, dough, fuel, and diesel territory while retaining the greasy gas and earth that made the original cut stand out.
One Lineage, Two Very Different Expressions
The story starts with Toad Venom
Originally developed through a collaboration between Ronin Seeds and West Coast Connoisseurs, the cultivar combines Animal Face and Sin Mintz genetics into a profile that's become a favorite among hash consumers chasing loud terpene expression.
On paper, the cross almost sounds too busy to work. Animal Face brings fuel, earth, pine, and kush-heavy structure. Sin Mintz layers in doughy mint-cookie sweetness backed by candy-fruit influence inherited through Zkittlez. Somehow it all lands in the same place.
What ends up in the jar is a mix of mint-cookie sweetness, fuel, earth, and candy-fruit notes that shouldn't fit together as cleanly as they do.
That genetic foundation drives both releases in the drop.
Toad Venom hits with sweet mint-cookie notes before moving into creamy fuel, spice, earthy kush, and lingering funk. The profile starts polished and ends unapologetically loud — the kind of cultivar that keeps revealing new layers the longer you spend with it.
Demon Toad takes that foundation and pushes it further. Created by crossing Toad Venom with Sin Mintz F2, it amplifies the mint and dough characteristics while retaining the fuel, earth, and kush notes that made the original cut stand out.
On paper, the profile reads like chaos. In the jar, it's remarkably well balanced. Mint-cookie sweetness, fuel, earth, dough, and diesel all show up, but none of them completely take over.
Running those genetics through a solventless process puts the product front and center, letting the plant express its true terpene profile. The fuel gets louder. The mint gets brighter. Every layer the cultivar carries in flower comes through harder and faster in rosin form.
This isn't some white-label hype jar with a renamed sticker slapped on top. It's a small-batch solventless run built around genetics that already earned attention long before they ever hit a rosin jar.
Nature's Lab: The Hash Crew Behind the Pop-Up
Nature's Lab built its reputation through obsessive consistency long before "solventless" became the industry's favorite marketing word.
For more than 15 years, the operation has focused on tight sourcing standards, repeatable wash quality, and genetics worth actually preserving in hash form. More than 50 competition awards followed naturally.
They're cult-followed in the way that actually means something — not because of flashy branding, but because the jars keep holding up and hash heads keep coming back.
The Toad Venom and Demon Toad release fits directly into that lane: loud genetics, limited quantities, and a wash process built to preserve every weird terpene layer the cultivars are known for.
The SFV Shop Holding The Drop
Squintz | Foreign is the kind of shop where this drop actually makes sense.
The Winnetka storefront is a collaboration between LA operators who've been rooted in San Fernando Valley cannabis culture long before legal weed turned the neighborhood into a destination. The shop is social-equity licensed and majority-owned by a Marine veteran who was prosecuted for medical marijuana cultivation during the same enforcement era that criminalized many of the same communities legal cannabis now profits from.
The team brings nearly two decades of cultivar knowledge and retail experience to the floor. Their shelf standard is simple: if they wouldn't smoke it themselves, it doesn't go up.
The focus here isn't hype or trend-chasing. It's flavor, rosin, and genetics that still impress once the jar is open.
Hosting the exclusive Nature's Lab solventless pop-up isn't a departure from that standard. For a shop that built its reputation on curation, a drop like this feels less like a surprise and more like a natural fit.
The information contained in this article is provided for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical or legal advice.
