Best Product for sale: the Mate Magnetic Lighter

Best Glass Paraphernalia: Hit Man Glass

Best Edible: Captain Kirk's Key Lime Cheesecake (although I've got to say that the Blackberry Salmon Blue Cheese Crustini that took second place looked awful good).

Outstanding Concentrate: C4 LLC with Super Lemon Haze Blo

Highest Level of CBDs (one of the active substances in marijuana): GLCCDC from Cannatonic X with 12.3 percent

Best Sativa: the Obaminator from New World Seeds

Best Hybrid Strain: Sour OG Kush from Travers OG

Best Indica: OG Kush from the M22 Collective

Also, John Sinclair, who writes the Higher Ground column on alternate weeks, received the Lifetime Achievement Award. A High Times spokesperson said that, if it were not for Sinclair, there would be no medical marijuana in Michigan and there would be no medical marijuana Cannabis Cup.

I'll leave you with the words of one of the High Times speakers, who said, "The Medical Marijuana Cannabis Cup is here in Michigan because that's where the action is."

The action may be here, but the High Times is running its nonmedical 24th Cannabis Cup competition Nov. 20-24, in Amsterdam, Holland. That's just about the right time for a northern European vacation.

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