Essie Awards 2024

Essie Awards 2024

The seventh annual Essie Awards, took place on April 7 at El Rey Theater in Albuquerque, NW.

The Essie Awards: New Mexico’s Cannabis Awards were established in 2017 by Kurple Magazine. The awards were built as a commemorative way to celebrate those that provide excellence in New Mexico’s Cannabis industry, in honor of Essie DeBonet.

These are the Winners!

Best Cartridge Distillate
1st Peaches And Dream (Elevated)
2nd Berry White (Dime Industries)
3rd Tie – Blueberry Empanada (Head Space) / Black Mamba 2 gram Vape (Ghost)

Best Cartridge Live Resin
1st Cap Junky (Higher Cultures)
2nd Hash Reak (Urban Wellness)
3rd Grape Bananas Go Pen (Pharmers Quality Concentrates X Honey Hole)

Best Cartridge Live Rosin
1st Gorilla Treats (Nero by Pharmers Quality Concentrates)
2nd Moonshine Slurri (Olio x Sandia Botanicals)
3rd Jet Fuel (Dime Industries)

Best Hash (Ice Water/Bubble)
1st SOUR CANE (OLIO)
2nd Ice Cream Cake (OLIO)
3rd Sacred Sour (Prohibition 37)

Best Caviar/Terp Sauce
1st Lemon Tree (OLIO X Gasd Up Exotics)
2nd Truffle Treats (Elevated)
3rd White Truffle Sugar (Discount Dabs X GH Labs)

Best Diamonds
1st Kandy Kush (Herbal Edibles & Extracts)
2nd Trop Cherry Live Diamonds (Manana)
3rd Lemon OG (Pharmers Quality Concentrates X Daft)

Best Live Resin
1st Cherry Punch (Olio)
2nd Golden Goat (Elevated)
3rd Mod Grapes (Pharmers Quality Concentrates X Sandia Botanicals)

Best Live Rosin
1st Mendocaine (Carver Family Farms)
2nd Chem De LA Chem (OLIO X Gasd Up Exotics)
3rd Purple Marmalade (Gold Lotus X Gold Fish Farms)

Best Live Rosin Jam
1st Toronja (Alabastra X New Mexico High Grade)
2nd Modified Grapes (OLIO)
3rd Grape 33 (Harvest Foundation)

Best Specialty Extract
1st Strawnana (Urban Wellness)

Best THC Topical
1st Rosemary Mint – Cannabis Cosmetix (Multitude Manufacturing)
2nd Lemon Grass Sage – Cannabis Cosmetix (Multitude Manufacturing)
3rd Canna Salve (Minerva)

Best THC Tincture
1st Immune Elixer (Herbal Edibles & Extracts)
2nd Lemon Lavander (Minerva Canna)
3rd Drip (Pharmers Quality Concentrates)

Best Edible – Gummy
1st Sour Raspberry (Olio)
2nd Peach Chamoy Blaze Bite (GH Labs)
3rd Somnia Blue Razz (Kullu Kush)

Best Edible – Hard Candy
1st Watermelon Drops (Elevated)
2nd Blackberry Creamsicle Sugar Cubes
3rd Mango Chamoy Ganja Drop (GH Labs)

Best Edible – Gourmet/Baked Goods
1st Lemon Aid Square (Herbal Edibles)
2nd Chocolate Cake (Canna Cafe Minerva)
3rd Garlic Cheddar Biscuits (Budder Pros)

Best Edible – Snack/Taffy
1st Tropical Haze – Joy Bombs (Olio & Sandia Botanicals)
2nd Milk Chocolate Toffee (Serenity of Budder Pros)
3rd Original – Joy Bombs (Olio & Sandia Botanicals)

Best Edible – Chocolate
1st White Fruity Crisp (Coyote/Lift Equation)
2nd 420 Lavender Lemon Almond White Chocolate (Sacred Garden)
3rd Purple Rain (Phytoremedies)

Best Edible – Specialty Drink
1st Jinja Shooter (GH Labs)
2nd Hot CoCo Marshmellow (Dutch Bliss)
3rd Cherry Lime Shooter (Shake2Bake)

Most Innovative THC Product
1st Ice Cream Cake Dutch Bliss (Dutch Bliss/ Coach Lock)
2nd Obama Runtz x Wedding Cake Hash Paper (Alabastra)
3rd Piattella (Urban Wellness)

Best Seed Company
1st Zia Farm and Seed
2nd Seed Junky
3rd The Growers Circle

Best Delivery Service
1st High Horse Cannabis
2nd Moth Transport
3rd Priscotty

Cannabis Influencer (of 2023)
1st Chad Lozano
2nd Jeffery Castillo
3rd NM Bearded Man

Best Advocate (of 2023)
1st Dr. Joaquin Acosta
2nd James Bajis
3rd Colt De Morris

Best Advocacy Group
1st Bud Board Smokeshop and Dispensary
2nd Dope Moms Society
3rd New Mexico Chamber of Commerce

Best Grow Store
1st Hydro Lyfe
2nd AHL Garden Supply
3rd Dr. Green Hydroponics

Best Budtender (4 stores or more)
1st Trisha Fasolino – High Horse Cannabis
2nd Adam Ramirez – Bud Board Carlsbad
3rd Ashley Noriega – Rocky Mountain Cannabis

Best Budtender (3 stores or less)
1st Tracy Martinez – Dark Matter
2nd Eric Valencia – Enchanted Botanicals
3rd Hannah – Dark Matter

Best Glass Blower
1st Dome Piecer
2nd Space Hippie Glass
3rd Isaiah Trujillo

Best Community Involved Business
1st Carver Family Farms
2nd Headspace
3rd Bud Board Dispensary

Best Customer Service
1st High Horse Cannabis
2nd Dark Matter
3rd Urban Wellness

Best Personal Grower
1st David Hill
2nd About Dab Time
3rd Eric Trujillo

Best Dispensary NE Quadrant
1st Prohibition 37
2nd Lifted Cannabis
3rd Rocky Mountain Cannabis

Best Dispensary NW Quadrant
1st Enchanted Botanicals
2nd Dark Matter Cannabis
3rd Cookies

Best Dispensary SE Quadrant
1st Bud Board Dispensary
2nd High Horse Cannabis
3rd Mr. Good Bud

Best Dispensary SW Quadrant
1st Astro Buds
2nd Buffalo Bud
3rd Urban Wellness

Best Showroom
1st Dark Matter Cannabis
2nd Enchanted Botanicals
3rd Cookies

Best Manufacturer
1st Pharmers Quality Extracts
2nd Bloom
3rd Couch Lock

Best Wholesale Macro Producer
1st Urban Wellness
2nd Green Fuego
3rd Cookies

Best Wholesale Micro Producer
1st Carver Family Farms
2nd High Lonesome
3rd Fire Flower

Best Flower Overall
1st Enchanted Botanicals
2nd Bud Board Dispensary
3rd Cookies

Best Retail Store (4 stores or more)
1st Urban Wellness
2nd Rocky Mountain Cannabis
3rd High Horse Cannabis

Best Retail Store (3 stores or less)
1st Enchanted Botanicals
2nd Dark Matter
3rd Cookies

Best Smokeshop
1st Up In Smoke
2nd Queen Bees Smokeshop
3rd Bud Board Smokeshop

Best Indica Flower
1st Sensi Star (Taos Mountain Grown)
2nd Mac Stomper – Mac X Grape Stomper (Sandia Botanicals)
3rd Permanent Marker (The Good Herb)

Best Sativa Flower
1st Sub Zero (Urban Wellness)
2nd Golden Poppy (Prohibition 37)
3rd Super Boof (Green Fuego)

Best Hybrid Flower
1st Red Runtz (Prohibition 37)
2nd Fiji Belts #5 (Harvest Foundation)
3rd Zookies X SLS Mac (The Good Herb)

Best THC Preroll
1st Super Boof (Green Fuego)
2nd Papaya (Prohibition 37)
3rd Glitter Bomb (Prohibition 37)

Best THC Pre Roll Keif/Infused
1st Gucci Links (Urban Wellness)
2nd Strawberry Shortcake & Berlatti (Kullu Kush)
3rd Trout Slamm Variety (Hippy Trout Cannabis Co.)

Best Blunt/Wrap
1st Horchata (Head Space)
2nd Ojo’s Rojos (Green Fuego)
3rd London Fog Rolled Blunt (Impact Farms X Honey Hole Cannabis)

Best Hash Hole Live Infused
1st Do Si Do & Toronja (Kullu Kush)