Las Vegas Weekly Cannabis Awards
A reader-voted contest that grew into a judged spring ceremony, told entirely through the organizer's own pages.
- 47results on record
- 2022–2026years in our data
- 5editions
- 23matched to strains
01Beginnings: a vote, a ticket draw and a promised party
The Las Vegas Weekly Cannabis Awards started as a public vote. On 22 August 2022, the Las Vegas Weekly opened voting and described the project as a way to honor dispensaries, budtenders, cultivators and products across the Las Vegas Valley1. The first round was decided by readers, with a small twist: fans were told to buy selected products at participating dispensaries and then vote, and every vote went into a draw for a four-pack of tickets to the finale1. The same call for votes promised a closing event in November 2022, which the magazine pitched as a highlight of its year1.
By 10 November 2022 the magazine was presenting the results as its inaugural Cannabis Awards, which places the first set of winners in November 20222. As for motive, the publisher says it wanted to advocate for Nevada's cannabis industry2. Everything here comes from the organizer's own pages, so this origin story is self-reported, and no independent account of how the program was conceived is documented. This page covers only the Las Vegas Weekly program, not any other cannabis awards held in the city.
02The story: from reader ballots to a judging panel
The first vote drew a crowd. The magazine reports close to 20,000 unique voter submissions, which added up to hundreds of thousands of individual votes2. Among the 2022 results, ShowGrow was named best dispensary2. Those figures are the magazine's own tally, and the sources do not explain how votes were checked or counted, so treat the turnout as a claim by the organizer rather than an audited number.
The format then changed. In the edition published on 18 April 2024, results were credited to an expert panel of judges, and the dispensary prize was split into separate State, Local and Philanthropic Choice categories3. Deep Roots Harvest sponsored that edition, and the article says so openly3. The timing moved too, from November 2022 to spring, with results running on 18 April 2024 and 17 April 202534.
The 2025 round shuffled the roster. Oasis Cannabis Dispensary took Best Dispensary Local Choice, while Deep Roots Harvest was described as winning the State Choice category for a second year running4. Green Life Productions won Best Brand in 2025, and the write-up described its operation as an indoor, commercial, no-till living soil facility, which it billed as the oldest of its kind; that is the magazine's description, not a verified record4.
03Culture: people, charity and a very Vegas comparison
The awards make room for people as well as products. Budtenders have their own category, and in 2025 it went to Joe Leon of NuLeaf4. The 2024 judging panel also drew on the trade itself, including Kaila Fehringer, a retail buyer at Deep Roots Harvest and a Las Vegas native, who says she was drawn to the industry after Nevada voters legalized recreational use in 20163. Charity gets a mention too: in 2024 the magazine credited Tree of Life with giving 70 percent of its profits to charitable causes3.
Advocacy has its own prize. In 2024 the Chamber of Cannabis, founded during the COVID pandemic by a group of women leaders, won Industry Innovator3. In 2025 the category went to Layke Martin of the Nevada Cannabis Association, who compared Nevada's young cannabis industry to the long evolution of gaming in the state4. The 2025 ceremony itself was a party, by the organizer's account: cocktails, a snack station, a DJ, a roaming photo booth and airbrush tattoos, with honorees collecting awards and mixing with industry peers5.
04Now: the 2025 edition is the latest on record
The most recent edition documented is the 2025 event, held on 17 April 2025 at StarBase Las Vegas and sponsored by INDO Cannabis, according to Greenspun Media Group5. The organizer's page lists an honoree count of 15 and links to honoree lists, recap videos, photos and digital editions for 2022, 2024 and 20255. It lists no 2023 edition, and the sources do not say whether one took place or why there is a gap.
The 2025 write-up describes the awards as part celebration and part recognition of the Valley's standing in the cannabis industry4. No edition after 2025 is documented in the sources used for this page, so the 2025 ceremony is the most recent one that can be described here.
05Future: no announced plans found
No announced plans for a next edition were found. The organizer's page invites potential sponsors to get in touch, but it gives no date, venue or format for any edition after 20255. Whether the awards stay in spring, keep the judging-panel format or return to a larger reader vote is not documented, and this page does not guess. Check the Las Vegas Weekly and Greenspun Media Group pages for updates.
The results, in our data
CannaLib holds 47 results from this cup across 5 years (2022 to 2026), 23 of them matched to a strain in the catalogue.
Recent first-place strains
| Year | Strain | Category | Entrant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Miracle Alien Cookies Mac | Best Hybrid Flower | Kushberry Farms |
| 2025 | Garlic Cookies | Best Indica Flower | Nature’s Chemistry |
| 2025 | Miss X | Best Sativa Flower | Green Life Productions |
| 2024 | Limoncello | Best Indica | |
| 2022 | Head Cheese | Best Overall Strain | Polaris |
| 2022 | 9Lb Blueberry | Best Flower, Indica | Circle S. Farms |
| 2022 | Silver Hawks Haze | Best Flower, Sativa | GT Flowers |
| 2022 | Bahama Mama | Best Flower, Hybrid | CAMP |
| 2022 | Double Dream | Best Preroll | Cannavative |
| 2022 | Elderberry | Best CBD Consumable | |
| 2022 | Sunset Mac | Best Extract | Roots |
Editions on record
- 2022
- 2024
- 2025
Sources
- Las Vegas Weekly Cannabis Awards - Las Vegas Weekly (22 August 2022)
- Las Vegas Weekly presents its inaugural Cannabis Awards - Las Vegas Weekly (10 November 2022)
- Honoring local excellence with the 2024 Cannabis Awards - Las Vegas Weekly (18 April 2024)
- Las Vegas Weekly's 2025 Cannabis Awards - Las Vegas Weekly (17 April 2025)
- Las Vegas Weekly Cannabis Awards | Greenspun Media Group
Written from the sources above and checked on 2026-10-29. Spot an error? Tell us on the contact page.