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January 9, 2023

The Best Weed In America For 2023 (Cannabis Cup Winners) And Where To Buy It

by Leafly, Benzinga Contributor

January 8, 2023 8:10 AM | 5 min read

The Best Weed In America For 2023 (Cannabis Cup Winners) And Where To Buy It

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This article was originally published on Leafly and appears here with permission.

Can you taste it, Leafly nation? 2023 is nearly here. This was an excellent year for weed and weed lovers, both in the cultural and political sense, and itโ€™s only up from here. The new year is the perfect time to clean out that bong and prepare it for new things. 

With dozens of cannabis competitions held this year, from the High Times Peopleโ€™s Choice Cups to the east coast Cultivatorsโ€™ Cup to the Cowboy Cup to the insidersโ€™ Transbay Challenges, winners of 2022 have emerged with a flourish. Here are some of the best strains, edibles, and dabs of 2022, and where you can find them. 

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California

The golden state remains the gold standard for craft cannabis. This year, we surveyed winners from all palates and walks of life, including the Emerald Cup, LA and SF Transbay Challenges (organized by Leafly contributor Jimi Devine), the SoCal High Times Cannabis Cup, the Farmers Cup, and the California State Fair

Boutique brand Wonderbrettโ€™s Orange Banana was the clear Farmersโ€™ Cup winner, sweeping first place overall in addition to best aroma, effect, taste, and highest cannabinoids.

The People of SoCal spoke with their whole chest when they chose Top Shelf Cultivationโ€™s Woah Si Woah and Sense Cannabisโ€™ Pink Certz (also the SF Transbay challenge winner) as their indica and hybrid flower winners. Team Elite Genetics snagged the sativa trophy with Pearadise. Our 2022 Strain of the Year, Jealousy, grown by LitHouse, placed second. 

Fig Farms had a great run at the Emerald Cup, nabbing both the indoor flower crown and the breedersโ€™ cup with Animal Face and Holy Moly! For sungrown flower, Lemon Sponge Cake by Farmer and the Felon came out on top. 

Fig Farms Animal Face. Hybrid. (David Downs/Leafly)

MOCA Humboldt also won half a dozen placements for terpenes and cannabinoids at the CA State Fair for their Wookies, Grape Cookies, and ZOG strains.

If youโ€™re feeling hashy, LA Family Farmsโ€™ Rainbow Belts won best hash at LAโ€™s Transbay Challenge, while Bear Labsโ€™ Kiwi Thin Mintz diamonds came out on top for solvent concentrates.

Rosin-based edibles were a hit this year too. Concentrate brand Kalya Extracts collaborated on two edible winners this year, with Elefanteโ€™s papaya rosin gummies and Cosmic Ediblesโ€™ cookies.

Oregon

Oregonโ€™s Growersโ€™ Cup shows off the best of the Beaver Stateโ€™s buds. Kapricornโ€™s Candy Rain won for indoor flower, while Cannassentialsโ€™ Spritzer clinched sungrown. Avitas won both the peopleโ€™s choice award and placed second in prerolls.

Colorado

Colorado loves its fruit-forward strains this year, and evidently, itโ€™s Runtz. 

While DENRECโ€™s Purple Monkey Face Slap won best flower overall at the Connoisseurs Cup, their Zkittlez Kush Mints also won best sativa. A straight Runtz by Lit Dispensary won for hybrids, and Merakicannaโ€™s Dry Ice was deemed the indica winner. 

In a twist, Harmony Extractsโ€™ Original Glue beat out Runtz for best rosin concentrate. Meanwhile, the Colorado Cannabis Cup dubbed High Level Healthโ€™s Runtz the hybrid winner, along with the brandโ€™s Cookie Monster for Indica and Sour Orange Zkittlez by Veritas Fine Cannabis for sativa. 

Coloradoโ€™s commercial Grow Off strain was Super Soldier Serum #3, which Growlytics clinched for highest cannabinoids and second place for terpenes.

Arizona

The competition is heating up in Arizona for its second year of recreational sales. The Errl (thatโ€™s oil) Cup was the perfect stage for Trumed to assert their dominance with two winning strains, Rainbow Sherbert #11, and CK Jbโ€™s Cut.

Illinois

In the Prairie State, big multi-state brands and grower-retailers still mostly reign supreme at competitions. Rythmโ€™s Brownie Scout took gold and Revolution Cannabisโ€™ Gorillaโ€™d Cheese won for both hybrid flower and concentrates. To our surprise, Bay Area-based Fig Farms won the sativa category with Figment. 

Michigan

The High Times Cannabis Cup (peopleโ€™s choice edition) landed in Michigan, a state we love for their deep-rooted cannabis culture. Despite a long, cold winter, Michigan loves its tangy, tropical terps as Society Cโ€™s Spritzer and Hyphaโ€™s Tropical Runtz beat the competition. 

Massachusetts

Massachusetts knows how to mix the old with the new. Bountiful Farms dispensary won the Cultivators Cup with Slap n Tickle, while Happy Valley scored in two Cannabis Cup categories for Super Lemon Haze and End Game Cookies.

Oklahoma

Yee haw! The Oklahoma Cowboy Cup saw Skye Flowerโ€™s Larry Bird and Bar-H-Industriesโ€™ Royal Kush lasso their way to victory. 

New York

New York loves its classics. The NY Harvest Fest was full of cannabis lovers that will hopefully soon be on shelves as the stateโ€™s first recreational dispensaries come online. While these strains werenโ€™t attributed, Blueberry Muffin beat out all competitors. 

Montana

Montana is for (weed) lovers! The Lovers Cup held its inaugural competition that longtime Leafly contributor Max Savage Levenson called โ€œa DIY celebration of the best weed for sex, the chillest strains for our long winters, and a much-needed opportunity to raise a glass to our unparalleled community of craft growers.โ€ 

The first Lovers Cup champions were Pure Remedies, which won with the Exotic Genetix creation The Woah!!!. Tropical Runtz made another winning appearance for best flavor, this time from Big Sky Buds.

Winners Circleโ€”All 2022 US cannabis contest winners

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