The house✦San Fernando Valley

Garagesto storefronts.

Foreign Genetics is a crew from the Valley with two decades of growing behind it. We cultivate, manufacture, distribute and sell our own flower, and we still walk every room ourselves.

01 Where it started

Before the license there were garages in the Valley and warehouses too small to name. We learned on OG Kush, kept the phenos that mattered and threw away the rest. We still work that way.

Flowering plants in the room — In the room

Founded 2015. Licensed. Still ours.

Cultivators who had grown together for years founded Foreign Genetics, Inc. in 2015. When California went recreational we went vertical: cultivation first, then manufacturing and distribution, then the stores.

We opened the first door on Pico, then Sherman Oaks. In Winnetka we opened Squintz | Foreign with Chauncey Leopardi, whose Squintz line we have grown since 2019.

Hand trimming in black gloves — Hand trimmed

02 The years

2015
Foreign Genetics, Inc.
Founded in Los Angeles by a Valley crew with two decades of cultivation between them.
2019
Squintz × Foreign
Chauncey Leopardi's Squintz line comes to the Foreign rooms. Rainbow Chip becomes Squintz; Wendy follows.
2021
Foreign L.A. opens on Pico
Our first counter. The eighth gets its $35 price.
2023
The Liz
Squintz × Foreign × Westside Gunn. Isaac Pelayo's Elizabeth Taylor on a die-cut bag. Tokyo, F1 and Mona Lisa join the signature line.
2025
Squintz | Foreign, Winnetka
A collaboration store in the Valley selling our flower and our friends' at Valley prices.
2026
Foreign Sherman Oaks
The third door, on Burbank Boulevard. Home turf.
2026
Foreign Virgil Village
The fourth door and the first on the east side, on Virgil Avenue by Silver Lake and East Hollywood.