Copa Cannábica México (Copa México)
A grower-run cannabis cup held on an avocado farm outside Guadalajara, Jalisco, and billed as the first Copa Cannábica in Mexico.
- 21results on record
- 2018–2024years in our data
- 5editions
- 11matched to strains
- Mexicolatest location
01Beginnings
A Vice article in Spanish announced the first edition of the Copa Cannábica in Mexico, sometimes shortened to Copa México, for 18 March1. The article does not give the year, so the source we have does not document exactly when that first edition took place. This page covers the cannabis cup near Guadalajara, Jalisco, not the football competition with a similar name.
The piece quotes one of the organizers, who goes by Dany Grower1. He says the aim was to give Mexican growers a place of their own and some recognition, after what he describes as a long time on the sidelines1. He adds that a group of people with the same ideals decided to launch the cup after seeing what other countries were doing1. The venue was a field on an avocado farm, about half an hour from central Guadalajara1.
02The Story
According to the organizer, others had tried something similar before, but those attempts were very small, and he suggests the right moment had not come until this edition1. The article sets the cup against the legal situation of the time, when legal recreational cannabis in Mexico still looked a long way off, and describes the gathering as a private event1.
The competition ran in two stages. Judging was planned as a tasting a few days before the event, and the awards were to be presented on the day itself1. Winning strains were to receive an international certificate through a process called TAG, short for Trichome Assurance Grading, meant to mark their producers as professional growers1. Entry was by guest list only, with a 200-peso donation instead of a ticket, and the organizers said no minors would be admitted and no alcohol would be sold1.
03Culture and Community
The judging panel was largely Latin American. The article names Gastón Durana from Argentina, Nico Malazarte from Brazil and Juan Vaz from Uruguay, alongside several Mexican judges, and the organizer says four of the judges came from abroad1. Max Montrose, president of the Trichome Institute in the United States, the body behind grower certification in North America, is named as a guest judge1. The organizer says samples came from several Mexican states and from other countries too1.
The organizer also stresses connection. He wants people in Mexico who are interested in cannabis to meet one another, and he calls the cup a growers' movement1. He is clear that it is aimed at growers and consumers and is not a family or children's event1. The programme listed talks, extraction workshops and rosin-pressing demonstrations, along with a playful game called Policías y pachecos (roughly, cops and stoners) and some raffles1.
The results, in our data
CannaLib holds 21 results from this cup across 5 years (2018 to 2024), 11 of them matched to a strain in the catalogue.
Recent first-place strains
| Year | Strain | Category | Entrant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Oaksterdam | Indoor Flowers | The Originals |
| 2020 | Orange Sunshine | Outdoor Flowers | Wero Chronic |
| 2020 | Tropical Daydream | Distillates | 710 Dhomex |
| 2018 | Casey Jones | Flores – índica | |
| 2018 | Zamaldelica | Flores – sativa |
Editions on record
- 2018 · huerto de aguacates, afueras de Guadalajara, Jalisco
- 2020 · Mexico (tasting in forests outside CDMX per Vapotlán)
Sources
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