Chalice California
A Southern California festival where live music, glass art and hash competition share a field, and where a 2018 legal first was the plan.
- 109results on record
- 2015–2019years in our data
- 5editions
- 53matched to strains
- California, USAlatest location
01Beginnings
Chalice California is the name behind the Chalice Festival and its Chalice Cup, a Southern California gathering that has paired live music with cannabis culture since 20141. OC Weekly names Doug Dracup as the founder and owner2. According to that July 7, 2017 article, Dracup spotted an opening in California about seven years earlier, which puts his move at roughly 20102.
His Hitman brand started with designing glass pieces such as bongs and rigs, and has since grown to offer more than glass alone2. According to OC Weekly, the festival grew out of that brand idea, as a meeting place for music, glass, hash and art2. The debut edition drew about 5,500 people1. The sources give no exact date or venue for that first outing, so those details are not documented here.
02The story so far
By July 2017, OC Weekly described the festival as a three-day event, and the fourth time San Bernardino had hosted it2. Dracup said the previous year, 2016, brought about 24,000 attendees and that nobody ended up in jail2. GreenState credits the 2016 and 2017 editions with bringing acts such as Wu Tang Clan and Ice Cube to the Victor Valley Fairgrounds3.
Then the law changed the plot. California voters approved legalization in November 2016, but the changes only took effect on January 1, 20181. Under the new rules, events with legal on-site sales had to be held at one of 80 authorized county fair or district agricultural association properties statewide1. The 2018 edition was billed as the first festival of its kind to allow recreational cannabis to be bought on site from legal vendors1.
The announced 2018 lineup included Bassnectar, Ludacris, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Sizzla Kalonji, Curren$y, Cut Chemist, Pharcyde and Thriftworks1. Organizers were preparing for a crowd of at least 45,000, a big step up from the 5,500 who came to the debut1.
03Culture and community
Glassblowers, hash makers and street artists have been showcased at the festival since 20141. Earlier events were aimed at medical cannabis patients and paraphernalia fans, while the 2018 edition added on-site consumption and purchases for adults 21 and over1. The same preview contrasted Chalice with Coachella, which did not let attendees bring legally acquired cannabis onto its grounds1. GreenState lists the festival among its Cannabis Awards 2018 entries, under Excellence in Experiences, describing it as California's leading extract and glass festival3.
The Chalice Cup is the competitive heart of the event. In 2017, OC Weekly reported more than 750 hash makers took part, with about 400 judges, and said all products were tested before entry2. Dracup boasted that no rival competition matches the cup2. That is his own claim, and nothing in the sources independently verifies it.
04Where things stand now
The most recent dated plan in the sources is the 2018 edition, which was open to adults aged 21 and over only1. After that, the trail goes quiet. The sources do not document whether the festival or the cup carried on, whether later editions took place, or who won any later cup. A current status is therefore not documented, and this page will not guess. For up-to-date details, the organizers' own site, chalicecalifornia.com, is named in the GreenState listing3.
05What's next
Dracup's stated ambition for the 2018 edition was to show everyone what a legal cannabis festival looks like1. That is the furthest forward the sources look. No announced plans beyond the 2018 edition were found, so there is nothing to report about future editions, new cup categories or other developments.
The results, in our data
CannaLib holds 109 results from this cup across 5 years (2015 to 2019), 53 of them matched to a strain in the catalogue.
Recent first-place strains
| Year | Strain | Category | Entrant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Mimosa 26 | Best Flower Overall | Jungle Boys |
| 2017 | Snow White | Highest THC Flower | Pharoh Pharms |
| 2017 | Master Blaster | Highest Terpenes Flower | Purple Frost |
| 2017 | Acdc | Highest CBD Flower | 3c Farms |
| 2017 | Purple Punch | Indica Flower | Jungle Boys |
| 2017 | Mimosa 26 | Sativa Flower | Jungle Boys |
| 2017 | Banana Pie | Indica Solvent | Beezle and The Hive |
| 2017 | Blood Orange | Sativa Solvent | Panacea x Luxe x Hive |
| 2017 | Urbols Cannatonic | Highest CBD Solvent | |
| 2017 | Lemon Meringue | Highest Terpenes Solvent | Cali Green Gold |
| 2017 | C Banana | Highest THC Solvent | Utopia Farms |
| 2017 | Orange Drop | Distillate | Gold Drop x Blue River |
| 2017 | Island Girl | Highest THC Distillate | Gold Drop x Blue River |
| 2016 | Clementine | Sativa | WEED.RAR |
Editions on record
- 2015 · San Bernardino, California, USA (July 2015)
- 2016 · San Bernardino County Fairgrounds, Victorville, California, USA
- 2017 · San Bernardino County Fairgrounds, Victorville, California, USA (7-9 July 2017)
Sources
- Chalice Becomes First Music Festival To Allow On-Site Recreational Cannabis Purchases (Live For Live Music)
- Only The Purest Cannabis Brands Can Take Home Chalice Cup (OC Weekly, July 7, 2017)
- Events | GreenState (Cannabis Awards 2018)
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