Dizzy Duck Takes Best Weed at HighLife Cup 2026 as Legal Growers Steal the Show

Coffeeshop Dizzy Duck from The Hague was crowned best weed of the year at the 32nd HighLife Cup, announced June 4 at a new venue in Breda. The Hague stalwart took the overall Weed Cup on the back of a deep, consistent run — including the single highest flower score of the competition, a 302.5 for the sativa Black Amnesia — while John & Co from Hellevoetsluis claimed the overall Hash Cup. No coffeeshop has won more categories than Dizzy Duck over the past six years, and 2026 only cemented that reputation.

But the headline of the night wasn't the usual suspects. For the first time, licensed cultivators from the Dutch wietexperiment — the regulated supply-chain trial that lets approved growers legally produce cannabis for participating coffeeshops — competed in their own bracket alongside the coffeeshops and seed banks. They didn't just show up: across the board, weed-experiment samples scored slightly higher on average than traditional coffeeshop cannabis, and John & Co became the first experiment participant ever to win an overall title — in their debut year, no less. After decades of grey-market supply, the message from Breda was hard to miss: regulated, fully legal Dutch weed can already go toe-to-toe with the best the coffeeshops have.

The competition was organised into three subgroups — coffeeshops, seed banks, and the weed experiment — spanning 21 categories judged on blind tastings plus lab analysis. One quietly telling note from this year's lab data: terpene content (averaging 3.11% across category winners versus 2.05% overall) turned out to be a better predictor of a winning sample than raw THC percentage.

Coffeeshop Winners — Weed / Wiet

Indica

🥇 Candy Chrome — Dizzy Duck (282.5 pts)
🥈 Jumpshot #22 — Marbella (274 pts)
🥉 Dreams Gold — Empire (270.5 pts)

Sativa

🥇 Black Amnesia — Dizzy Duck (302.5 pts)
🥈 Green Crack Extreme — Doctor Green (285 pts)
🥉 Tropicana Cheese — Magic Doetinchem (277 pts)

Oldskool

🥇 OG #18 × Kosher Kush — Marbella (278.5 pts)
🥈 Kosher Dreams — Gallery Colorado (271 pts)
🥉 Chemdawg — De Ambassade (270.5 pts)

Import North America

🥇 Boujee Bitch — Marbella (286 pts)
🥈 Candy Land — Doctor Green (276 pts)
🥉 Headbanger — Magic Doetinchem (272 pts)

North American Strains, EU Grown

🥇 Zizi — Magic Den Haag (275.5 pts)
🥈 Strawberry Calippo — Marbella (274.5 pts)
🥉 Kosher — Club Animo (273 pts)

House Favorite Wiet

🥇 Rainbow Peaches — Dizzy Duck (280 pts)
🥈 S5 Amnesia — Relax Centrum (275.5 pts)
🥉 Sunsetz — Dizzy Duck Down Town (273 pts)

Coffeeshop Winners — Hash / Hasj

Oldskool Hasj

🥇 Royal Beldia — Dizzy Duck Downtown (290 pts)
🥈 King Muh — Cremers (271.5 pts)
🥉 Tizifri — Solo (269.5 pts)

Modern Hasj

🥇 What the Fuck — Magic Doetinchem (295 pts)
🥈 Yellow Mellow — Solo (272 pts)
🥉 Lemon Papaya × Forbidden Fruit Static — Dizzy Duck (270 pts)

House Favorite Hasj

🥇 Forbidden Joy Static — Dizzy Duck Down Town (282 pts)
🥈 Original Beldia — Genesis BV (266.5 pts)
🥉 Kosher Dawg × Oreoz — Fly (264 pts)

Hasj Special

🥇 OGZ — Marbella (296 pts)
🥈 Mimosa — Club Media (292.5 pts)
🥉 Biscotti Pratella — Dutch Flowers (292 pts)

Weed Experiment — Wietexperiment

The newest bracket belonged to the licensed growers supplying the regulated trial, paired with the coffeeshops that sell their product. Club 69 with grower Hollandse Hoogtes dominated the flower categories, while John & Co — working with growers Q-Farms, Aardachtig and Hollandse Hoogtes — turned a debut into an overall Hash Cup.

Indica

🥇 Karma Zizi — Club 69 / Hollandse Hoogtes (283 pts)
🥈 Kensington Kush — Pax / Q-Farms (273 pts)
🥉 Sub Zero — Uncle Sam / Holigram (268.5 pts)

Sativa

🥇 Crumbled Lime — Club 69 / Hollandse Hoogtes (290 pts)
🥈 Blue Gelonade — The Cat / Linsboer (280.5 pts)
🥉 Bio Amnesia — John & Co / Aardachtig (276 pts)

North American Strains

🥇 Sub Zero — Cool Running / Holigram (268.5 pts)
🥈 Vanilla Noir — Kosbor / Holigram (263.5 pts)
🥉 Voodoo Runtz — Pax / Growery (249 pts)

House Favorite

🥇 Rainbow Zizi — Club 69 / Hollandse Hoogtes (292 pts)
🥈 Kensington Kush — The Cat / Q-Farms (273 pts)
🥉 RS11 — John & Co / Aardachtig (262 pts)

Hasj

🥇 Karma Fruit Punch Ice — Club 69 / Hollandse Hoogtes (296 pts)
🥈 ZOZ by 3rd Gen Family — The Cat / Q-Farms (281 pts)
🥉 Holi Blond — Uncle Sam / Holigram (244.5 pts)

Hash Special

🥇 What the Fuck Ice-o-lator — John & Co / Q-Farms (297.5 pts)
🥈 Joyfulness Ice-o-lator — The Cat / Q-Farms (290.5 pts)
🥉 Karma Stardawg WPFF — Club 69 / Hollandse Hoogtes (280.5 pts)

Edibles

🥇 Tiramisu Pralines — John & Co / Hollandse Hoogtes (249 pts)
🥈 Bezzies met Pax — Pax / CanAdelaar (230.5 pts)
🥉 Cherry Cola Gummy 20mg — Club 69 / Hollandse Hoogtes (230 pts)

Seed Bank / Breeder Categories

Royal Queen Seeds had the night of the seed banks, sweeping the top of Indica, Sativa and Autoflower, while Genesis BV took Outdoor with a returning classic.

Indica (Seed)

🥇 Sticky Queen — Royal Queen Seeds (273.5 pts)
🥈 Seriotica — Serious Seeds (266.5 pts)
🥉 Fucked Up Hippy — Seedstockers (252.5 pts)

Sativa (Seed)

🥇 Green Crack Punch — Royal Queen Seeds (265.5 pts)
🥈 Unicorn Wagyu — Growers Choice (244 pts)
🥉 Forbidden Mochi — Seedstockers (243 pts)

Autoflower (Seed)

🥇 Triple G Auto — Royal Queen Seeds (264.5 pts)
🥈 Fucked Up Hippy Auto — Seedstockers (259.5 pts)
🥉 Unicorn Wagyu — Growers Choice (253.5 pts)

Outdoor (Seed)

🥇 Liberty Haze — Genesis BV (271.5 pts)
🥈 Drizl Pickl — Seedstockers (262.5 pts)
🥉 Auto Skywalker Haze — Dutch Passion (225.5 pts)

Overall Winners

Overall Weed Winner: Dizzy Duck (The Hague)
Overall Hash Winner: John & Co (Hellevoetsluis) — weed-experiment debut
Potency Cup (Weed): Doctor Haze — Fly
Potency Cup (Hash): Zap Gov — Dizzy Duck Down Town

A Legal Future, Tasted Early

If the 2025 cup was about seed banks joining the party, 2026 was about the wietexperiment proving the point of the whole experiment: that legal, regulated cultivation can match — and on average even edge out — the coffeeshop product Dutch culture was built on. Dizzy Duck's continued dominance shows the old guard isn't going anywhere, and The Hague remains the country's undisputed "Wietstad." But with John & Co lifting an overall cup in their first attempt and licensed growers like Hollandse Hoogtes and Q-Farms outscoring the field across category after category, the Breda edition felt like a glimpse of where Dutch cannabis is headed — out of the grey market, into the light, and tasting better than ever.