Welcome one and all, to the return of our beloved High Times Cannabis Cup Michigan: People’s Choice Edition 2023! This year marks the fourth year we’ve set up a People’s Choice Edition competition in Michigan, and this most recent winner’s list shows off the thrilling reveal that you’ve all been waiting for. With a massive 21-category breakdown this year, we’re proud to display the winners as determined by our Michigan judges.

Medical Edibles

First Place: Dream Edibles – Dark Chocolate Covered Sea Salt Caramel 2x100mg

Second Place: Covert Cups – Peanut Butter Cups

Third Place: True North Collective – Sweet Summer Peach THC Gummies

Medical Concentrates

First Place: Element x Kai Cannabis – Black Cherry Punch Live Rosin

Second Place: Motor City Melts – Minties Rosin

Third Place: Petro – Ice Cream Cake Live Rosin

Medical Infused Pre-Rolls

First Place: Holey Cannoli – Jealousy x Garlic Cookies Infused Pre-Roll

Second Place: Element x Pro Gro – Sherb Cream Pie Live Resin Joint

Third Place: Ghostbudsters – Crypto Bites Mini Infused Pre-Roll Pack

Medical Non-Infused Pre-Rolls

First Place: LocalGrove – Runtz Pre-Roll

Second Place: Uplyfted – Greazy Runtz Pre-Roll

Third Place: High Minded – Sour Sunset Sherbet Pre-Roll

Medical Hybrid Flower

First Place: New Lyfe – Gogurtz

Second Place: Heavyweight Heads – Wet P

Third Place: Happy Little Tree Co. – Dog Walker OG

Medical Sativa Flower

First Place: Dutch Touch Genetics – Mr. Clean

Second Place: Leilani Bee – Lemon Mai Tai

Third Place: Heavyweight Heads – Lion Order King Clementine

Medical Indica Flower

First Place: MI Loud Farms – Kush Mints

Second Place: Heavyweight Heads – Giraffe Head

Third Place: Doghouse – Garlato

AU Topicals + Tinctures + Capsules + Sublinguals

First Place: Mary’s Medicinals – 1:1 CBD:THC Transdermal Patch

Second Place: Heavyweight Heads – Lion Order by Rohan Marley Lion Balm

Third Place: Northern Connections – Extra Strength 1:1 Topical Relief Cream

AU Edibles: Non-Gummies

First Place: Kiva – Churro Milk Chocolate Bar 200mg

Second Place: Dope Cakes – Peanut Butter Dope Dough

Third Place: Potdots – Sugar Shelled THC-Infused Milk Chocolates

AU Edibles: Non-Solvent Gummies

First Place: FloraCal – Pink Lemonade Live Rosin Gummies

Second Place: Afternoon Delite – Blue Lemonade Hash Rosin Gummies

Third Place: MKX x North Coast x Pressure Pack – Strawberry Lemon Live Hash Rosin Gummies

AU Edibles: Solvent Gummies

First Place: Afternoon Delite – Blue Lemonade Crunch Gummies

Second Place: Dixie – Fast-Acting Juicy Punch Gummies

Third Place: True North Collective – Strawberry Lemonade THC Gummies

AU Non-Distillate Vapes

First Place: Element Pure Live x Pro Gro – Lunar Lemon Live Resin Cart

Second Place: North Coast – Gelonade Hash Rosin Vape Pod

Third Place: Five Star Extracts – Black Cherry Trop Nug Run Sugar Sauce Vape

AU Distillate Vapes

First Place: Workers Cannabis – Unicorn Piss Vape

Second Place: North Cannabis Co – Traverse City Cherry Punch Cart

Third Place: Church x Local Grove – Nitroux Vape

AU Non-Solvent Concentrates

First Place: Pressure Pack x North Coast – Blue Zorbet Hash Rosin

Second Place: LightSky Farms – Grape Breath Live Rosin

Third Place: Society C – Pastries Live Rosin

AU Solvent Concentrates

First Place: HumbleBee x Exotic Matter – Papaya Live Resin

Second Place: Cannabee Extracts – Tahitian Sunset Terp Diamonds

Third Place: Element x Pro Gro – Sherb Cream Pie Live Resin

AU Infused Pre-Rolls

First Place: North Coast x Pressure Pack – Lemon Rain Infused Donut Pre-Roll

Second Place: Uplyfted – Grape Gas Bubble Hash Infused Pre-Roll

Third Place: Crude Boys – King Kong Black Widow Infused Pre-Roll

AU Non-Infused Pre-Rolls

First Place: North Coast x Pressure Pack – Permanent Marker 2g Cannon

Second Place: Uplyfted – Super Runtz Pre-Roll

Third Place: LocalGrove – Ice Cream Cake Pre-Roll

AU Infused Flower + Moonrocks

First Place: Crude Boys – Hans Solo Funk Frosted Buds

Second Place: Cannabee Extracts – Laughing Gas Moonrocks

Third Place: Freshy Fine – Motorbreath Moonrocks

AU Hybrid Flower

First Place: MI Loud Farms – Garlic Cocktail

Second Place: Stone Depot – Cap Junky

Third Place: Pro Gro – Moonbow #12

AU Sativa Flower

First Place: High Level Health – Blue Skunk

Second Place: Pressure Pack – Orange Bomb

Third Place: LocalGrove – Black Marshmallow

AU Indica Flower

First Place: Society C – Spritzer

Second Place: Higher Love – Tokyo Drip

Third Place: LocalGrove – Count Chunkula

If you want to compare results to previous competition winners, check out our winning results from 2022 and 2021 as well! You can look forward to even more People’s Choice Edition news and announcements at Cannabiscup.com.

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First announced on “Twosday” February 22, or 2.22.22, Rohan Marley, son of the legendary Bob Marley, plans to launch Lion Order, a cannabis and CBD lifestyle brand that truly reflects the values of both the Marley family and cultivator Heavyweight Heads. Marley plans to launch the brand, fittingly, on April 20.

Marley played professional football in the Canadian Football League with the Ottawa Rough Riders, and currently performs as a musician periodically with his siblings. He shares his father’s affinity for the herb, both for spiritual and medical reasons. The Lion of Judah is a prominent symbol in the Rastafari faith—representing Emperor Haile Selassie I and as a symbol of strength.

“Lion Order represents the Lion of Judah,” Marley said. “The way of man, Strength, Power, Courage, Determination. Doing things the right way. Moving as a King or Queen, moving with dignity, self-respect and wanting to be a part of a movement and a lifestyle. It’s a way of life and how one should live.”

Marley continued, “Lion Order is a way for us to unite as a people, whether it’s with cannabis, water, psilocybin, coffee or food. We want to get together around a table, all different ethnicities, different religions, nations and have a real talk about life and love.” 

Lion Order’s alignment and synchronization with 2.22.22 is special to Marley as 2 is a special number to him personally. The number 2 was his football number when he played for the University of Miami alongside Warren Sapp, Ray Lewis, and The Rock. That’s also where the concept of Lion Order began, the company explains in a press release.

Partnering with Michigan’s Cannabis Cup award-winning cultivator Heavyweight Heads, the brand will launch on April 20 with its own Lion Order IP strains. Heavyweight Head’s strain Orangutan, for instance, won 1st Place for Best Recreational Sativa Flower at the High Times’ Michigan 2021 Cannabis Cup People’s Choice Edition.  

Marley will announce his complete product rollout in Michigan and other territories where Lion Order product will be sold this coming 4/20, the universal cannabis holiday of April 20.

Lion Order CEO Chloe Villano said, “Lion Order is a movement of the highest order. It represents this industry and all that it encompasses with integrity, authenticity, equality, and justice. This is something that means so much to me being an activist who worked on the ground floor of legalization, and one of the pioneers of the industry. When I connected with Rohan, we realized that we had the same values and the synergy was there to build a monumental movement, brand, and company; we knew that this would be bigger than we ever dreamed of. With the honorable legacy that Rohan Marley carries and the consciousness of the team and partners, this brand is a true staple of leadership, encompassing luxury culture and standards the industry has not yet seen. We aim to create one of the largest, most successful roots culture luxury brands in cannabis while creating a movement of truth that changes the world!”

Lion Order represents Marley’s Ital-approved, holistic way of nutrition, meditating, and training on the beach. Following his career in professional football, Marley founded several successful family brands such as Marley Coffee and House of Marley headphones and speakers. 

Countries such as Italy have observed cannabis for Rastafarian religious beliefs. In the U.S., the use of cannabis in observance of Rastafari sparked a religious debate in states like California and Wisconsin.

Lion Order will be a complete lifestyle brand of cannabis, hemp-derived CBD, clothing, and luxury accessories to enhance the ritual of cannabis consumption. Mike James, another former athlete and one of Lion Order’s company owners, played running back in the NFL for the Detroit Lions from 2016 to 2018.

“Lion Order is something that Rohan has been practicing his whole life and it has been passed down for generations. Now he’s giving our team and the world the opportunity to join this movement. We all want to be a part of something special in our lives. Why not that be liberation in the structure of LION ORDER. As humans, we have a duty to one another to do our best to preserve human life. The mission is to not only do that but to help liberate those lives into freedom,” James said.

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