Cannabis packaging is typically a sea of mylars with the occassional glass jar thrown in for good measure.

However some brands go above-and-beyond in the package department, to create something both eye-popping AND functional.

I’ve tried to highlight the most creative packaging I’ve seen in the Michigan market in 2023.

These nominees provide the total package…

Drumroll please 🥁

Best Packaging

3rd Place: Franklin Fields - Cross Joint

Franklin Fields brought the Christmas spirit with this holy-themed Cross Joint for the Holidays.

Available in two varieties: Holy Trinity & Jesus OG.

Like a gift, the package was encased in either a silver or gold box (depending on the strain you chose).

Opening it, you felt like a kid on Christmas Day. Inside you found an expertly rolled joint placed atop a bed of cotton, like Jesus on the manger.

Priced at $20, this was a nice treat for the holidays to share with loved ones.

2nd Place: Uplyfted - Permanent Marker Pre-roll

Pre-rolls typically live in tubes.

Boring plastic or glass tubes.

However, the folks over at Uplyfted decided to make a play on the strain name of Permanent Marker with their prerolls.

Taking inspiration from a Sharpie permanent marker, they were able to create a mold that mimics the original.

If you want to be stealth while hitting a J, this is your pre-roll.

So cool in fact, you’ll want to keep one as a little “doob tube”.

1st Place: Gus’s Real Exotics - BubbleTerp

Gus’s Real Exotics is no stranger to innovative packaging.

Known for making parodies of 80s & 90s culture and incorporating it into their strain names & packaging.

But with BubbleTerp, Gus knocked it out of the park with nostalgia!

Growing up in the 90s, the circular plastic container of Hubba Bubba Bubble Tape, was a sign you were part of chewing gum royalty.

Gus took this nostalgic bubblegum package and packed it full of his BubbleTerp flower and it flew off shelves.

The flower was proper bubblegum and the package just took it over the top.

It was dope to see an existing product taken and repurposed into something humorous and child-like.

Props to Gus on this one!