Camino is Kiva Confections' gummy brand, launched in California in 2018 and sorted by mood names like Bliss, Chill and Sleep instead of strain names. It pairs fruit flavors with terpene blends and minor cannabinoids, from CBN to THCV, and in August 2026 Headset ranked it the No. 2 edible in California and No. 1 in Massachusetts and New York.
A California road trip in a tin
Scott and Kristi Palmer, who started Kiva Confections with chocolate bars in 2010, built Camino as the company's gummy line. The look came from Stout, a San Francisco design studio that had already worked with Kiva for four years.
Stout borrowed the idea of El Camino Real, the roughly 600-mile route from San Diego to southern Sonoma, and illustrated a different California landscape for each flavor and mood. "Our biggest goal was to create a line that captured that California State of Mind," Stout principal Brian Gunderson told The Dieline, which made Camino its Pack of the Month in December 2018.
Stout has stayed on since, through packaging changes, architecture updates and line extensions. In January 2020 Camino traded its pouches for tins holding the same 20 gummies, slightly smaller pieces at the same potency, with the push-down-and-turn lid Kiva already used on Terra. The redesigned packaging won a silver Clio Cannabis award for brand design that year, and in 2021 Kiva made the Camino tins fully recyclable.
Midnight Blueberry and the minor-cannabinoid playbook
Camino's defining release came on January 21, 2020. Midnight Blueberry paired 5 milligrams of THC with 1 milligram of CBN, plus chamomile and lavender oil, for $18 a tin, and Kiva billed it as the first CBN-infused edible after a nine-month hunt for a CBN supplier.
Wild Cherry and Freshly Squeezed launched alongside it. Six years later Midnight Blueberry tops Camino's sales on Headset's August 2026 chart, with a 1:1:1 THC, CBD and CBN Deep Sleep Blackberry Dream right behind it.
That formula-first approach now runs through the whole catalog. Each line name comes with a fixed recipe:
- Bliss: Watermelon Lemonade at 5 mg, Citrus Punch at 5 or 10 mg and Raspberry Lemonade at 10 mg
- Chill: Wild Berry at 5 mg and Strawberry Sunset at 10 mg
- Uplifting and Excite: Pineapple Habanero, Watermelon Spritz and Wild Cherry
- Social: Sparkling Pear, 2 mg THC with 6 mg CBD
- Balance: Yuzu Lemon, Orchard Peach and Mango Serenity, THC and CBD in equal parts
- Focus and Energy: Green Apple, 5 mg THC with 2 mg THCV, and Tropical Burst, 10 mg THC with 5 mg THCV
- Recover: Freshly Squeezed, 5 mg THC with 10 mg CBG
- Exhilarate: Wild Cherry with 5 mg each of THC, CBC and CBG
- Sleep and Deep Sleep: Midnight Blueberry with CBN, and Blackberry Dream with CBD and CBN
High-dose tins push Watermelon Lemonade, Wild Berry, Midnight Blueberry, Mango Serenity and the Exhilarate Wild Cherry to 30 or 50 milligrams of THC per piece.
Sours, fruit chews and the Proud gummy
Camino Sours arrived on October 18, 2021: vegan gummies dusted in sour sugar, launched in Citrus Breeze, Watermelon Spritz and Orchard Peach at 5 milligrams each. Scott Palmer called the California gummy segment "extremely competitive" at the launch, and 10-milligram sours followed in July 2022. The fruit chews are individually wrapped, taffy-style and vegan, in flavors including Forest Berry, Black Cherry, Orchard Apple, Pineapple Paradise, a Golden Peach with CBG and a Boysenberry with CBN.
Camino's Pride gummy, first sold as Proud, dates to 2018. The fifth release, in May 2022, was a limited-edition Passionfruit Punch at 5 milligrams with an iridescent design, and Kiva paired it with a $100,000 donation, its largest to that point, split among groups including GLAAD, the Transgender Law Center and the Los Angeles LGBT Center's Transgender Economic Empowerment Project. The 2026 lineup still carries a 5-milligram Pride Passionfruit Punch.
Camino by the numbers in 2026
Headset's August 2026 data has Camino in 2,101 licensed dispensaries across 16 states, 534 of them in California, with sales up 12.5% year over year and more than $10 million for the month.
It is a pure edible brand ranked No. 1 in Massachusetts and New York, No. 2 in California and Connecticut, No. 3 in Michigan and No. 4 in Nevada and Ohio. In California the only edible brand ahead of it is Wyld, with Kiva's own Lost Farm at No. 4.
The map was built market by market. Camino reached Nevada in November 2019, Michigan through High Life Farms in May 2021, and Missouri through C3 Industries in March 2023, where Midnight Blueberry, Watermelon Lemonade, Citrus Punch, Wild Berry and Watermelon Spritz led the launch. AYR Wellness brought Camino to more than 62 Florida medical dispensaries in November 2023 under an exclusive Kiva license, and Ayr's 2026 menus list it at 65 Florida locations.
Camino and Camino Sours were also the first Kiva products to reach Canada, through producer Greentone in May 2022.
The hemp Camino
In February 2024 Kiva started selling hemp-derived Camino gummies online, made to the 2018 Farm Bill's delta-9 limit, and opened 16 new markets from Alabama and Texas to Pennsylvania and Wisconsin with five flavors: Midnight Blueberry, the Social pear, Watermelon Lemonade, Wild Berry and Wild Cherry.
The online shop now delivers to Texas, Georgia and 20 more states and runs its own Instagram, @caminobykiva, where it quotes musician Jenny Lewis: "These are a pretty low dose, 5mg, which I think is so important with edibles."
Camino's rise is also the subject of Kiva Confections: How Camino Became California's Most Trusted Gummy. Sister brand Petra covers the low-dose mint end of the same Kiva kitchen.
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