The Mississippi Cannabis Festival Southern Bud Bowl is a regional competition for the best hemp-derived products in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Hemp cultivators, processors and brands can submit their products into the competition, which are then packaged by Mississippi Cannabis Festival Committee Team Members into assorted Judge Kits. These Judge’s kits are then distributed across the States for consumers to test and judge each product inside their kit. The kits have a minimum cost paid by the judge to cover shipping, handling and baseline expenses.

Hemp-derived products are products that come from the Hemp plant. These products may include high levels of CBD, CBG, CBN and other non-psychoactive compounds that contain therapeutic properties, as well as low levels of THC. All products are under .3% Delta-9 THC and are federally legal for possession and consumption as stated in the 2018 Farm Bill. With new products coming into the market, legal psychoactive cannabinoids such as Delta 8, Delta 9, Delta 10, HHC, THC-O and more are all federally legal compounds that may be found in the Legal Psychoactive Judge Kits.

All Certificates of Analysis showing CBD, THC and other cannabinoids and compounds in each product are available on the Mississippi Cannabis Festival Bud Bowl homepage. If you need more clarity, please seek further information online at our website before making your purchase.a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.

The Mississippi Cannabis Festival Committee accepts products from brands from February 1st - March 27th. 

Judge Kits become available to the public for ordering on April 1, 2024, at www.cannabisfestivalms.com.

Judge Kits will be shipped to a valid US address only. There is no pickup option.

Judges will have until April 15, 2024, to complete judging for all products in their Kits.

(30) Judge Kits will be sold online first come first served. Anyone who is interested in becoming a judge may do so by ordering starting on March 20th. If you purchase a Judge Kit, you MUST test and submit scores and comments for all products. If you receive products you cannot consume or judge yourself, please find a friend who can help you complete the judging. All of your feedback is important and is anonymously sent to the brands who submitted their product. For more info and updates, please submit your info at cannabisfestivalms.com.

Bud Bowl kits will be assortments of Hemp-derived products from various brands, all contained inside of a Mississippi Cannabis Festival Southern Bud Bowl box.

We anticipate 50+ different products in the competition, spread across multiple different types of kits.

Each kit may include products from the following categories of hemp-derived products: Flower, Pre-Rolls, Concentrates & Extracts, Edibles: Gummies, Edibles: Non-Gummies, Beverages, Topical lotions, Salves, Oils, and Balms, Sublinguals and Tinctures

Each Southern Bud Bowl Judge Kit comes with a Judge’s QR Code which gives you a link to the Southern Bud Bowl Judge Portal and the access code for the specific Judge Kit type you have. Judges will access the Judge Portal to find a list of products within their kit and can choose the product they are testing, then submit their scores and feedback based on the portal’s questions and criteria. Please leave detailed comments in the comments section and include a description of your entire experience with the product.

Judge Kit purchases are limited to 1 kit type per person. This helps us ensure that all products are judged properly.

What if there is a product in the kit I do not know how to judge? Can someone help me? Yes you may share the contents of your Kit.

Further questions? 

Please email mscannabisfestival@gmail.com