Supporting Arkansas’ Cannabis Community
The Arkansas cannabis industry is gearing up for one of its most anticipated annual events: the Big Bud Classic 2025, Arkansas’s annual statewide cannabis competition. This celebration highlights the state’s best cultivators, processors, and dispensaries, showcasing the quality, innovation, and community that define the local cannabis market.
This year, Calyx Containers is honored to be the official Jar Sponsor for the Big Bud Classic, reinforcing our dedication to helping operators, retailers, and patients thrive with innovative cannabis packaging solutions.
What Is the AR Big Bud Classic?
The Big Bud Classic is Arkansas’s premier cannabis competition, celebrating the products, people, and passion behind the state’s medical cannabis industry. Featuring both judged categories and a People’s Choice Awards, the event ensures that excellence is recognized by industry experts and the community alike.
For 2025, the competition spotlights a wide variety of product categories:
- Judged Big Bud Classic: Expert panels evaluate submissions across dozens of awards, from Best Overall Product to specific product types like Best Sativa, Indica, Hybrid, Edible, and Concentrate.
- People’s Choice Awards: Consumers purchase products, try them firsthand, and cast votes for their favorites, adding a true community voice to the competition.
The 2025 Event Timeline
Participants and fans can expect a packed schedule for this year’s Big Bud Classic:
- April 20 – June 30: Submissions open for all categories.
- June 15: Judging kits for the Big Bud Classic begin distribution.
- Aug 1 – Aug 31: Public voting for the People’s Choice Awards.
- Fall 2025: Winners are announced, celebrating Arkansas’s top cannabis products and brands across every category.
Why Calyx Containers Is Sponsoring
At Calyx Containers, we don’t just make cannabis packaging—we create solutions that help cultivators, processors, and dispensaries deliver consistent, compliant, and high-quality products to consumers.
By sponsoring the Big Bud Classic, we’re:
- Celebrating Arkansas Operators: Recognizing the cultivators, processors, and dispensaries that push the state’s cannabis industry forward.
- Elevating Quality and Compliance: Supporting the recognition of products that not only taste and perform well but also meet the highest industry standards.
- Connecting With the Community: Helping ensure products reach judges and consumers in premium, watertight, and compliant jars and containers.
As the official Jar Sponsor, we’re ensuring that competition entries are presented and preserved in packaging designed to protect freshness, potency, and presentation.
Categories Showcasing Arkansas’s Best
The Big Bud Classic 2025 celebrates excellence across dozens of product categories, including:
- Best Overall Product (by Cultivator, Dispensary, and Processor)
- Best Flower (Sativa, Hybrid, and Indica, separated by source)
- Best Concentrates & Vapes (Distillate, Solventless, CO₂/Raw, Live Resin)
- Best Edibles (Gummies, Chocolates, Beverages, and CBD-infused items)
- Best Topicals & Tinctures
- Best Packaging Design (spotlighting the role cannabis packaging plays in shelf appeal and compliance)
The packaging category is especially exciting, as it reflects how crucial quality cannabis packaging has become—not just to comply with regulations, but to help brands stand out and preserve their products.
Why Events Like the Arkansas Big Bud Classic Matter
For Arkansas’s medical cannabis industry, the Big Bud Classic is more than a competition. It’s a chance to:
- Showcase Local Craft and Quality: Highlighting the dedication of cultivators and processors.
- Engage Patients and Consumers: Through People’s Choice voting, patients directly influence which products rise to the top.
- Highlight Innovation: From groundbreaking product types to advanced packaging solutions, the Big Bud Classic underscores how the Arkansas industry continues to evolve.
Looking Ahead: How Calyx Supports Arkansas Cannabis
At Calyx Containers, our commitment to the cannabis industry doesn’t end with jars. Beyond providing watertight, CR-certified cannabis packaging like our Drams, jars, and custom-labeled FlexPack, we also help cultivators protect their post-harvest quality with Calyx Cure curing bags—a science-backed solution for curing cannabis that preserves terpenes, stabilizes humidity, and reduces labor.
By combining our packaging expertise with curing technology, we help Arkansas operators deliver flower that tastes, smells, and performs exactly as intended, from harvest through retail.
If you’re attending or participating in the Big Bud Classic 2025, keep an eye out for Calyx Containers as we connect with operators, patients, and fans to celebrate the state’s thriving cannabis market.
To learn more about how Calyx Containers’ cannabis packaging and curing bags can help your brand succeed, connect with our team or visit our learn more with our Calyx Packaging Blogs.
Now’s the time to vote for the WINNERS of each category! Voting ends at midnight on August 31st.
