Green State Cannabis Awards
A small, thinly documented awards programme from GreenState, known only through its 2018 winners and a call for 2019 nominations.
- 54results on record
- 2018–2019years in our data
- 2editions
- 0matched to strains
- Californialatest location
01Beginnings
The earliest edition that the available sources document is 2018, when the GreenState Cannabis Awards recognised winners under broad headings such as products and services12. Beyond that, the origin story is a blank page: no founding date, no named founders and no stated reason for starting the awards appear in the material this page rests on. Rather than invent a tidy beginning, we note the gap and start where the paper trail does.
The awards are hosted on GreenState's own website, and the contact given for nominations is an email address at sfchronicle.com1. That detail suggests a connection with the San Francisco Chronicle, but the sources never spell out who owns or funds the programme. It is best read as a clue rather than a confirmed fact.
02The story so far
The 2018 cultivation prize, listed under products, went to Northern Emeralds, a business based in Humboldt1. The listing gives the company's website alongside its name. The sources do not say how many entrants it beat, who the runners-up were, or how the decision was reached, so the win is best understood as a single data point from one year's roster.
A second 2018 winner shows the range. The activism prize, filed under services, went to the Drug Policy Alliance, an organisation based in New York2. Honouring an advocacy group alongside a cultivation business suggests the awards looked beyond things you can buy. Which other categories existed, and who took them, is not documented in the sources used here.
03Culture and character
According to the winner pages, the awards were selected via an industry panel1. The sources do not name the panelists, describe the scoring, or explain how nominations were shortlisted, so how the choices were actually made remains unknown.
The winner pages also carry the operator's own commentary. The Northern Emeralds page credits the company with two 2017 releases, Blue Sapphire and Titan OG1. That is GreenState's own account rather than independent history, and it gives a sense of the awards' enthusiastic house style.
The activism page makes a policy-history claim of its own, crediting the Drug Policy Alliance with helping pass California's medical cannabis law in 1996 and adult-use legalisation in 20162. Like the other commentary, this is the operator's account, and the sources used here do not independently check it.
04What comes next
The 2018 pages invited nominations for a 2019 edition, with an email address given for submitting a service, product or experience12. That suggests the programme was meant to continue. The sources do not show a 2019 edition, any later one, or whether the awards are running today, and this page will not guess at a revival or a retirement.
The results, in our data
CannaLib holds 54 results from this cup across 2 years (2018 to 2019), 0 of them matched to a strain in the catalogue.
Editions on record
- 2018 · California
Sources
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