Cannabis trade shows and festivals put very different communities under the same broad event label. Some build the day around a stage, a public exhibition, or a place to gather. Others organize it around professional conversations, equipment, and the businesses behind the products people enjoy.
That variety deserves a guide with room for both. These six events span the United States, Europe, and South Africa, covering music festivals, public fairs, and business conferences. The selection reflects their different formats; it is an editorial shortlist, not an attendance ranking or a promise about which trip will suit everyone.
As of October 2026, five have announced upcoming dates across late 2026 and 2027. Florida Groves has started promoting its next edition, while its detailed visitor pages still describe 2026. Keep those different stages of planning in mind as you explore the events.
Mary Jane Berlin separates the business day from the festival
Mary Jane Berlin makes the change in audience visible in its schedule. Its 2027 ticket page separates Thursday's business conference from the Friday-through-Sunday festival. The dates run June 3–6 at Messe Berlin, with public festival programming beginning June 4.
The weekend offer combines exhibition halls, the Sommergarten festival area, and conference access. Music and a public audience belong to the format alongside the commercial exhibition. That gives someone interested in cannabis culture several ways to spend a day beyond visiting booths.
A group can also have different reasons for making the same trip. One person may care about the talks, another about the exhibitors, and another about the music. The shared setting creates space for those interests without requiring everyone to follow an identical itinerary.
Read the ticket's included days carefully before choosing one. A festival weekend and a business Thursday are separate offers, while combined passes cover both. For a visitor, that distinction is more useful than treating every badge as access to the entire event.
South Africa's Cannabis Expo puts music beside the exhibition
The Cannabis Expo's next announced edition runs May 28–30, 2027, at Sandton Convention Centre. Its program brings an exhibition together with the Cheeba Cannabis & Hemp Summit, a food market, and Mixology Fest. The organizer currently says tickets are coming soon.
Mixology Fest is described as a gathering around drinks, music, food, and social connection. The proposed stage program includes bands, artists, and DJs, but the overview is not a complete named lineup. An announced festival format should leave room for the actual performers to be revealed.
What makes this event interesting is the movement between those different settings. A talk, a product display, and a music performance ask for different kinds of attention. Visitors can follow a subject through discussion and exhibition, then spend time with the wider gathering.
The site also describes a private members area and separate delegate benefits. Those spaces should not be assumed to come with every admission option. Wait for the specific ticket terms, then choose around the parts of the event you actually want to experience.
Florida Groves starts with music and makes room for plant culture
Florida Groves gives cannabis a place within a wider music and arts festival. Its published experience includes stages, an Art Grove, glassblowing, and a dedicated Green Grove. That indoor area is presented as a setting for brand encounters and interactive activations.
The distinction matters for someone who enjoys the culture beyond product shopping. Glasswork, visual art, music, and cannabis can share a weekend without becoming the same activity. The attraction is the combination, with enough variety for friends whose interests only partly overlap.
The event is already promoting a 2027 early-bird waitlist. However, the detailed visitor FAQ still lists April 11–12, 2026, in Orlando. Those are past dates, and they should not be carried forward as the next edition's confirmed schedule.
Treat Florida Groves as a festival to follow while its next program takes shape. Previous stage arrangements and entry rules describe the edition they were written for. High Rise's Outside Lands feature offers another perspective on cannabis appearing within a broader festival setting.
NECANN brings the convention back to a local market
NECANN's next Boston convention is scheduled for April 9–10, 2027, at the Hynes Convention Center. It sits within a wider circuit of regional cannabis gatherings. The organizer presents those local markets as the foundation of the series, giving each stop its own context.
For a visitor, the useful question is which community the edition actually brings together. A convention's local organizations and participating businesses can tell you more than its national name. Look at those participants before assuming that one city's experience will carry over to another.
The Boston program combines an exhibition, speaker programming, and the NECANN Cup awards. Its venue rules also state that cannabis cannot be sold, distributed, or displayed at the Hynes. That is a concrete distinction for anyone whose expectations were shaped by a public cannabis festival.
Our NECANN Boston event listing keeps the basic logistics together. The regional format offers another way into cannabis culture: learning how people work within a particular place. Read the forthcoming participant list with that local focus, rather than looking only for familiar national brands.
ICBC Berlin concentrates on the professional conversation
The International Cannabis Business Conference lists April 13–15, 2027, at the Estrel Berlin Hotel. Its current program preview distinguishes the opening registration and reception day from the following expo and speaker-session days. That structure gives the trip a clear business focus.
There is a useful reason to compare this with Mary Jane in the same city. A professional conference makes conversation and subject knowledge central to the visit. A public festival adds other ways to participate, including music and broader discovery. Both can matter to the same person at different moments.
For ICBC, begin with the questions you want to explore and the sessions that address them. Then examine which pass covers those parts of the program. An expo visit, a speaker program, and a reception are distinct experiences, even when they share the same event name.
The website retains material explicitly labeled as its past 2026 program. Keep that separate from the 2027 preview when following speakers and sessions. A familiar name in an archive is useful context, but it does not establish that person's attendance at the forthcoming conference.
MJBizCon shows the work behind the finished product
MJBizCon returns to the Las Vegas Convention Center December 1–4, 2026. Its show overview covers cultivation, processing and packaging, retail, business services, and culture. The exhibition hall runs December 2–4, after a day that includes specialized programs.
This is the part of the event landscape where supporting work becomes visible. Equipment, packaging, software, and services sit behind the brands consumers recognize. Following those connections can make the industry easier to understand, especially when a finished product is usually the only part you see.
The current program also names spaces such as Impact Row and the Indigenous Cannabis Village. They give specific communities a place within the larger show description. Look at the actual participants and programming to understand those areas beyond a name on a floor plan.
Our MJBizCon guide goes deeper into the event's business purpose. Here, its role is to complete the picture: cannabis gatherings also include the people and tools that support the culture before a product ever reaches a shelf.
Build the trip around the part you want to experience
Start with one honest preference: the music, the public exhibition, or the professional program. That choice does not have to define your whole identity as a cannabis enthusiast. It simply gives the day a shape and makes it easier to compare events with different ambitions.
For festival plans, examine the performers, art, food, and spaces available between scheduled activities. For a fair, look at the exhibitor categories and the talks included with admission. For a conference, read the current program closely enough to identify the conversations that interest you.
Keep each edition attached to its own dates, ticket terms, and venue information. A previous event can explain the character of a gathering without guaranteeing its next lineup. The same care applies to access: a shared venue does not make every room or activity part of one pass.
High Rise's cannabis events calendar brings different formats onto one page as you narrow the choices. The strongest shortlist leaves room for curiosity as well as practical plans. Choose a gathering for what it actually offers, and let that specific place and community shape the experience.