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High Times Cannabis Cup Michigan: People’s Choice Edition 2023

February 3, 2023 Published by

We’re excited to see the product lineup as it begins to develop, but we’re even more excited to announce that we have pumped our number of categories to 20 this year—that’s three more categories than last year! This year we welcome the expansion of Solvent Gummies and Non-Solvent Gummies to the Edibles categories. We’ve also expanded our Medical categories as well to include Medical Concentrates and Medical Infused Pre-Rolls, but you can check out the whole list in its entirety here:

Entry Categories

  1. Rec Indica Flower (4 entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Adult-Use)
  2. Rec Sativa Flower (4 entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Adult-Use)
  3. Rec Hybrid Flower (4 entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Adult-Use)
  4. Rec Pre-Rolls (3 entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Adult-Use)
  5. Rec Infused Pre-Rolls (2 entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Adult-Use)
  6. Rec Solvent Concentrates (2 entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Adult-Use)
  7. Rec Non-Solvent Concentrates (2 entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Adult-Use)
  8. Rec Distillate Vape Pens & Cartridges (2 entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Adult-Use)
  9. Rec Non-Distillate Vape Pens & Cartridges (2 entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Adult-Use)
  10. Rec Edibles: Solvent Gummies (3 entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Adult-Use)
  11. Rec Edibles: Non-Solvent Gummies (3 entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Adult-Use)
  12. Rec Edibles: Non-Gummies (3 entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Adult-Use)
  13. Rec Sublinguals, Capsules, Tinctures + Topicals (3 Entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Adult-Use)
  14. Medical Indica Flower (4 Entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Medical-Facility)
  15. Medical Sativa Flower (4 Entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Medical-Facility)
  16. Medical Hybrid Flower (4 Entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Medical-Facility)
  17. Medical Pre-Rolls (4 Entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Medical-Facility)
  18. Medical Concentrates (4 Entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Medical-Facility)
  19. Medical Infused Pre-Rolls (4 Entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Medical-Facility)
  20. Medical Edibles (3 Entries Max per Company) (State-Licensed Medical-Facility)

The winners of the High Times Cannabis Cup Michigan: People’s Choice Edition 2022 revealed an outstanding selection of products well-known throughout The Great Lakes State. Brands and companies such as Pro-Gro, FLWRpot, Local Grove, and Canna Boys were just a few of the winners. Feel free to check out the winners from 2021 as well, and you can also look back at the winners of our in-person cannabis cups between 2015-2019.

Can’t wait to get started? Neither can we! Participation for the High Times Cannabis Cup Michigan: People’s Choice Edition 2023 begins on between March 20-30 as the window for submissions. Just in time for 4/20, we’ll have kits available starting on April 15 at participating locations. We’ll give our honored judges just over two months to properly sample and review all of the submissions in their kit, with a deadline of June 25. Finally, just a few weeks after that, we’ll announce the winners on July 9.

Winners receive the coveted High Times Cannabis Cup trophy, a longtime symbol of quality in the cannabis community. It was designed by Alex and Allyson Grey, made from zinc and 24k gold plating.

Judges will analyze the products in their kits through a variety of criteria. For Flower, Pre-rolls, Vape Pens, and Concentrates, judges will take note of a product’s aesthetics, aroma/scent, taste/flavor profile, burnability, effects/effectiveness, and terpene profile. Edibles have a slightly different list of considerations, including packaging and labeling. Finally, Topicals, Tinctures + Capsules judges are asked to review the “ease of use” in addition to other criteria.

Because the competition includes both recreational and medical products, the entry requirements differ slightly. From maximum weight limits on products and number of units submitted, we highly recommend that interested participants who want to submit their products adhere to the following requirements:

Entry Requirements

Recreational:

  • Flower: (228) 1g units. We will not accept any 3.5g entries. 
  • Pre-Rolls & Infused Pre-Rolls: (228) units. Pre-Rolls will be capped at 2g flower-only each.
  • Infused Pre-Rolls will be capped at 3g flower-equivalency or 1g concentrate-equivalency each by METRC equations.
  • Concentrates & Vape Pens: (228) .5g units. We will not accept any 1g entries. Batteries required for Carts.
  • Edibles: (100) units with 100mg THC max.
  • Sublinguals, Capsules, Tinctures + Topicals: (60) units with 500mg THC max.

Medical:

  • Flower: (228) 1g units. We will not accept any 3.5g entries. 
  • Pre-Rolls & Infused Pre-Rolls: (100) units: Pre-Rolls will be capped at 2g flower-only each.
  • Infused Pre-Rolls will be capped at 5g flower-equivalency or 5g concentrate-equivalency each by METRC equations.
  • Concentrates & Vape Pens: (100) .5g units. We will not accept any 1g entries. Batteries required for Carts.
  • Edibles: (100) units with 200mg THC max.

The cost of entry is set at $250 for one entry and $100 each for two (both non-refundable); for entries of three or more, it’s $100 each but the deposits per entry are refundable. If you’re interested in sponsoring the event, there are varied levels of sponsorship including Presenting Sponsorship, Silver Sponsorships, Bronze Sponsorships, and General Sponsorships.

Michigan really came out of the gates strong at last year’s Cup, so we can’t wait to see what these local brands bring to the table this year.

A huge thank you to our official intake partner Green Pharm.

Questions? Email Competition@hightimes.com.

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Terp Terms 101

July 12, 2020 Published by

As legalization speeds (or crawls)
forward and we learn more about the plant and how best to enjoy it, a whole
slew of new words and scientific terms have made their way into the mainstream
of cannabis culture and it can be hard to wade through the haze and keep up.

But worry not — your days of working off third-rate definitions from the internet are over. Here’s an overview of some terms, each in their own way associated with terpenes (the compounds that give cannabis its tastes and smells) from the scientific stuff to the slang, excerpted from “Beyond Buds: Next Generation,” a guide to cutting-edge cannabis consumption written by Cannabis Now contributor Ed Rosenthal and Associate Editor-at-Large Greg Zeman.

Study up, and you won’t leave another
concentrate-focused conversation feeling like the only kid in class who didn’t
do the assigned reading.

BHO: An abbreviation
for “butane hash oil”; can refer to any number of concentrates derived from
butane extraction; also can refer to raw, unpurged, liquid solution of butane
and extract bubble hash.

Closed loop:
An extraction approach that recycles the extraction solvent and contains the
process inside a closed system, as opposed to open blasting.

Crystalline: Refers to the molecular structure of a solid; the more orderly that structure is the more it will resemble a crystal. This is the natural state of “pure” cannabinoids, which are solids, and which can be purified and refined using recrystallization processes.

Decarboxylation: the removal of a carboxyl, which is a carbonate molecule (COOH). When carboxyl molecules are attached to the THC molecule, it is called THCA, or THC acid. In this form, THC lacks most of its psychoactivity. Decarboxylation removes the COOH acid molecule, leaving behind THC. Mild heat is often used to convert THCA to THC. This happens during drying, vaporization and smoking. Some decarboxylation happens naturally as marijuana cures and ages.

Diamond mining: Also
known as “Jar Tech,” this is a simple process for recrystallizing freshly
extracted BHO; this process works best using live resin.

Distillate:
The refined high-cannabinoid extract produced by distilling concentrates;
increasingly the most popular option for filling vape pen cartridges.

E-nail:
An electrical heating element for a banger or nail attached to a temperature
controller, allowing for consistent, targeted temperature dabs with no need for
a torch; apart from a quick swipe of a Q-tip, there is no downtime between
dabs.

Live resin: BHO
produced using live or flash frozen live material; the higher terpene content
makes it an ideal choice for producing sauces, sugars and other BHO
consistencies that rely on recrystallization.

Nucleation:
A natural separation process that occurs in all mixtures; in cannabis
concentrates, this means the separation of the cannabinoid solid from the
terpenes, which are natural solvents and fundamentally liquid.

Oil: A catch-all term that refers to any cannabis concentrate produced through solvent extraction, not generally used for hash or rosin.

Open blasting:
The original BHO extraction process; filling a tube with weed, blasting butane
through the tube and collecting what comes out the other side for purging; not
actually as dangerous as often presented, but more or less a non-starter in the
current regulatory climate.

Oxidation: The
action of oxygen when it unites with another substance chemically. This happens
quickly in fire, but also takes place at a much slower pace at room
temperature. For marijuana and its products, oxidation is deterioration. The
oxygen in air interacts with marijuana to reduce its THC content.

Purge: The
act of removing a solvent from a solution, as occurs during BHO or CO2
extraction.

Resin glands: General term for all trichome types on the cannabis plant.

Rosin:
The refined product of applying heat and pressure to raw buds or hash.

Rosin tech:
A mechanical extraction or refinement process for buds and hash respectively;
heat and pressure are used to coax a potent, flavorful, full-spectrum product
that is dabbable.

Shatter:
A highly regarded type of BHO characterized by its translucence and its
brittleness at room temperature; can range in consistency from “true” brittle
shatter (like golden or amber glass) to a sappy snap n’ pull consistency.

Solvent:
A substance that dissolves another substance, creating a solution — water is
the most basic solvent in the universe; because cannabinoids and terpenes are
oils, solvents used to extract them include alcohol, petroleum-based liquids
and liquid CO2.

Subcritical:
CO2 extraction done below the critical temperature and pressure
point of carbon dioxide when it turns to liquid.

Sugar:
In this context, refers to “terp sugar,” which is a sandy, granular variation
of BHO that has a damp appearance and consistency from terpene saturation.

Supercritical:
An unusual phase that occurs when a substance is held at or pushed past its
critical point when it changes from gas to liquid or similar. A supercritical
substance has different characteristics (solubility, diffusivity) than the same
substance has as a liquid or a gas; it is considered a “cloud.”

Winterization:
In bio-industry, the act of removing waxes from
an oil, usually through the application of cold temperature.

TELL US, is there any cannabis lingo that’s left you puzzled?

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Clean Your Bong Without Isopropyl Alcohol

April 9, 2020 Published by

Thanks to the coronavirus, we are all stuck inside as self-isolation has become the order of the day. With all the cleaning and sanitizing going on, isopropyl alcohol has become a hot commodity. Stoners everywhere are facing the choice, toke dirty or risk wasting precious isopropyl alcohol. Save it because there is another way! In […]

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