Best of Product - Chronic Palooza Awards
In 2021 our festival had over 30k people in attendance when we hosted the Jack Herer Cup and it was a huge success! In 2022 launched the CP Awards instead of a traditional cup to make the award and competition experience more prestigious and meaningful and had a full blown formal award show. The idea was to make our event a green carpet affair very upscale with a catered meal with live entertainment.
For the Product Competition there are two different ways to compete and vote for your favorite Oklahoma brands. The first type of voting is “Online Virtual Voting” where each type of product is broken down into categories. The community logs into the software portal and votes on their favorite products virtually by viewing Licensed OMMA Brands who have uploaded pictures and an optional video for each item to be voted on. This portion of the competition is voted on and weighs for 25% of the vote.
The second type of “Judging” in addition to the virtual competition is the “Patient Physical Judging” competition, where each brand will arrange for their entries to be picked up from their OMMA Licensed location or the products can be transported to the entry location where all entries will be placed in judge boxes and distributed to licensed OMMA Licensed Patient Judges to score each product on a scale of 1-10 and 10 being the best. This portion of the competition is voted on and weighs for 75% of the vote.
PLEASE NOTE BOTH ONLINE VIRTUAL AND PHYSICAL PRODUCT ARE RECOMENDED TO COMPETE IN THIS COMPETITION
Best of Product Competition is open to ONLY Oklahoma OMMA Licensed Businesses
- All nominations must be entered in the virtual platform by April 24th, 2024 to qualify.
- Once any submission is uploaded and accepted by the moderators it can start being voted on by the public online virtually
- Free votes are available for each category to place every 24 hours by each individual voting
- Should a individual want to support a nominee and buy a block of votes to help increase the votes and also help donate more money to the Non Profit, It Stops Here Foundation these vote blocks will be available to purchase to make additional votes
Deadlines and Voting:
All virtual product nominations must be entered online by no later than April 24, 2024.
For the Virtual Competition - voting starts as soon as platform launches to April 24, 2024.
April 24, 2024 is the last date for both Virtual and Judge Kit Votes.
Judging Kit (Physical Product Competition)
All products for nomination will need to be picked up by a Licensed OMMA Delivery Agent or Delivered by a Licensed OMMA Delivery Agent between March 4, 2024 - March 25, 2024 at 6pm
Judge Kits will be distributed to Licensed OMMA Patients starting April 1, 2024 to April 14, 2024.
Judges will try each product in the judge kit and log online and input their score by no later than 6pm on April 14, 2024.
For physical products being entered into the “Judging” Competition the following must be prepared and provided to the Festival Officials. Please note that the packaging must be 100% in compliance and follow all OMMA Rules pertaining to each product entered. Testing Results must be uploaded in a .jpg format and uploaded as one of the pictures with the online virtual submissions and adhere to Metric guidelines.
Physical Product Requirements
***Please Note-all submissions are Individual submissions as they will go into individual boxes.
We can NOT Accept any entries that are not already separated out properly.
- Flower - 56 individual grams
- Concentrates - 56 individual samples with .25 grams in each sample
- Topical/Edibles/Other - 56 samples bagged like it would be for normal retail
This competition is only for informational purposes, no sale of any type of product is ever made online. This is only showcasing your product and NO Products or are FOR SALE to the PUBLIC. VOTES are also Not to Purchase any Product only to show support of the viewing pleasure of the products presented.
The top 3 highest voted products per product category will be contacted no later than May 17, 2024 so each nominee can prepare for the award dinner on May 19, 2024.
Physical Competition
What does the Top Finalist Win in each category?
Votes will be calculated for virtual community votes at 25% of the votes and the hands on judge kit votes will weigh for 75% of the votes.
- The product with the highest votes in each category will receive a Chronic PaloozaTrophy presented at the Official Award Show
- Segment to appear LIVE on The Grinder.LIVE/ChronicTV
- Segment will air on the ROKU Channel
- Discounted tickets to attend the Official Award Show
1st Place with the highest scores will win the Chronic Palooza Award/Trophy
Giving Back to the Community
It Stops Here Foundation a 501c3 Non Profit
It Stops Here is an Oklahoma Non Profit Organization that was founded in 2019 to help bring awareness to Oklahoma regarding the crisis within the Oklahoma justice system. Oklahoma has one of the highest incarceration rates in the nation. Research has found that the majority of these offenders are first time and non violent. With all the prison reform going on in the world Oklahoma falls behind on the important and much needed initiatives to free non violent offenders and in particular individuals who are serving time for MJ. Some inmates serving time for MJ have longer terms (years) to serve then most sex crimes or even assault/murder crimes.
House Bill 788 passed - a people initiated petition in Oklahoma making MJ legal from a medical stand point on a State Level. As of January 2023 the State has issued over 373K Patients medical cards, over 7k growers, 2,729 dispensaries, 1,729 Processors, 138 Transporters, 27 Laboratories, 11 Waste Disposals totaling over 386k legal medical MJ licenses in the state. These patients and businesses have paid over $5M in taxes. But yet there are still hundreds of thousands of individuals still doing prison sentences in the state and federal prison for MJ.
It Stops Here Foundation is a organization that is a voice for the voiceless incarcerated and for the children who has a parent or a loved one who is currently incarcerated for MJ. Our goal is to raise awareness of this much needed prison reform. When a parent is taken away to the justice system and ripped out of the children's lives especially for a MJ charge this creates unnecessary problems for the entire family. Many grandparents are forced to raise their grandchildren (or other legal guardians) on a very limited income and step into a role that they should not have to step into just to ensure the children do not fall short into the city child protection systems.
It Stops Here Foundation accepts donations all through the year and has a annual Thanks Giving Meal and Christmas Toy Drive for children who’s parents are currently incarcerated. This wont help bring their parents home right away but at least we can help take the financial burdens off the grandparents or legal guardians of the children to help make there days a little brighter.
In 2022, It Stops Here Foundation expanded their mission with more events to raise awareness for prison reform by working with the the largest Medical event in the state of Oklahoma. The Patient Driven Festival hosts Music Quest Competition and CP Awards to help raise money for the non profit organization. The Festival will facilitate with It Stops Here Foundation a visual act of notice putting a message to the community to bring their children who’s parents are currently incarcerated for MJ to the 420 event and create a human chain shaped like a heart and working on a Guinness Book of World Records. We hope to bring awareness on a national level so that perhaps the law makers in Oklahoma and around the world will see the seriousness of how all these children's parents are currently incarcerated while their children attend the largest medical event in the state. Money collected from the 3 different competitions and CP Award Show a large portion will be donated to It Stops Here Foundation.