One of the best things about being a cannabis lover is the choices you can make. You can choose the experience you’re after. You can choose how to consume it, whether that’s flower, a vape, a gummy, a tincture or a drink. You can choose your dose, your setting and the kind of experience you’re planning to have. Now, Highlandia is adding another choice to the list: where you want to go.
Highlandia is a hemp beverage brand that offers something different. When you pick up a can, you’re not just choosing a drink—you’re choosing a destination that’s a little beyond the everyday. You won’t see it on any map, but you’ll feel like you’re there each time you open a can.
A New Kind of Hemp THC Seltzer
There are lots of cannabis drinks out there. Highlandia stands out by creating a whole world for its products, giving each flavor its own name, style and personality. The brand is all about curiosity and escape, aiming to offer an experience people genuinely want to join. In just six months, the brand became the national winners in the 2026 Proof Awards for flavor and design and became a top-five THC drink brand in Wisconsin— proof that the world-building isn’t just clever packaging.
But behind all the postcards, made-up geography and imaginary destinations, there’s a serious focus on what actually goes into these THC seltzers. Highlandia is naturally guilt-free, using organic cane sugar rather than corn syrup or artificial sweeteners, and the drinks are vegan, gluten-free, made with all-natural ingredients and low in calories.
The fun branding is playful, but there’s plenty of science behind what’s in the can. The 5mg sparkling cans are formulated with fast-acting nano THC, which reduces cannabinoid particle size to help with faster, more predictable absorption than traditional edibles—so it gets you to your destination quickly. (More on the live resin used in all Highlandia’s beverages below.) As well as its beverage line, there’s also a range of gummies in the sparkling can flavors that contain no artificial colors, keeping to the natural world of Highlandia.
The Highlandia Travel Guide
So, now you know where you’re going; how are you getting there? Highlandia’s hemp-derived THC drinks are available nationwide and offer different doses that deliver different journeys. To help you find your way, the brand created its own Traveler’s Dosing Guide, with product and dosing information for wherever you’re headed—whether that’s a quick weeknight unwind or something more intrepid.
One reviewer summed up the appeal simply: “The best flavored THC drink I’ve ever had. I think the CBD addition is a great move. Gives a wonderful, calm feel to the experience.”
Each 7.5oz sparkling can contains 5mg THC and 2mg CBD, sold in 6-packs. Pour it over ice, take it to a barbecue or open one at a concert—a genuine hemp THC alcohol alternative for whatever the occasion calls for. Available in three flavors, these cans are the easiest place to start exploring Highlandia. More daring adventurers can go bigger with a 50mg THC version of the same flavors, packed in larger 12oz cans in 4-packs.
Rocket Peak’s flavor profile blends bright fruit with a little tartness—like the nostalgic bomb pop for adults. Cherry and lime give it some zing, while blue raspberry brings in that familiar sweet-tart flavor. If you’re looking for a THC seltzer that’s fruity without going too far into candy territory, this is a great place to start.
Cottondew Clouds is for the dreamers who take time to watch the fluffy pink clouds drift by. Honeydew gives it a fresh, mellow fruit flavor, while cotton candy brings in something sweet and nostalgic. It’s an unexpected combination that will help you float away from the realities of this world.
Tangilime Grove is bursting with bright, citrusy flavors. Tangerine brings the sweetness; lime cuts through it. The resulting taste profile is crisp and refreshing. If Rocket Peak is the adventure and Cottondew Clouds is the daydream, Tangilime Grove feels like the place you’d go when you want some juicy sunshine.
For a higher-proof journey, Highlandia offers three 750mL Spirit bottles: Free Spirit, Goldentea Trails and Limoncello Coast. Unlike the sparkling cans, these are made with live resin, extracted from fresh-frozen cannabis rather than dried and cured plant material. That process helps retain more of the plant’s terpene and cannabinoid profile, giving the Spirit line a fuller, more whole-plant character than products made with isolate.
Each 1.5oz serving contains 10mg of THC, so you can pour according to the experience you want. For anyone looking for a hemp THC alcohol alternative with a familiar format, these bottles pour, mix and serve like a conventional spirit—without the booze.
The Founder’s Journey
The idea for Highlandia came from founder Nick Warrender’s own experience with cannabis. He lived with an autoimmune disease that had a significant impact on his quality of life. At a time when CBD was difficult to access, he discovered it for himself, and that experience changed his direction and eventually led him into the hemp and cannabis industry.
When the team began looking at beverages, they saw where the category was heading. Drinks are familiar, social and easy to understand, and as more people look for alternatives to alcohol, they offer a format that works in many of the same settings. But Highlandia didn’t want to rush another THC drink onto the market—they wanted to build something people would actually want to visit.
That same instinct had already played out once before. A decade earlier, Warrender’s early CBD advocacy in Kenosha, Wisconsin grew into URB, the flight-themed hemp cannabinoid brand that’s since become a publicly traded, award-winning company. Cannabis Now covered URB’s airline-inspired rebrand in detail—the same attention to world-building and brand identity that now shows up in Highlandia’s destination concept.
That’s really what Highlandia is about. Cannabis gives people choices, but Highlandia also gives you a passport.
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