Puffcon did not begin as another cannabis trade show.
There were no panel tracks, buyer badges, fluorescent expo aisles, or generic booths trying to speak to every corner of the market. Puffco built the event around a more focused idea: bring the people shaping modern concentrate culture into one physical space and let the hardware, hash, glass, food, music, art, and community operate as one scene.
That focus is still Puffcon’s advantage.
What began as a free gathering for Puffco owners has grown into a two-day cultural festival with major performers, more than 100 glass artists, more than 50 brand activations, food curated by Smorgasburg Los Angeles, immersive installations, collector-level glass, and a public-access Sunday.
Heading into its sixth edition on October 3–4, 2026, Puffcon is no longer just a company party. It is one of the clearest annual snapshots of where hash culture is going next.
What is Puffcon?
Puffcon is Puffco’s annual 21-and-over block party at Los Angeles Center Studios in Downtown LA. The event brings together musicians, cannabis brands, glass artists, accessory makers, food vendors, collectors, creators, and concentrate consumers for a festival centered on hash culture.
The weekend combines:
- Major live music and comedy
- The Puffcon Lot brand marketplace
- Functional-glass sales and demonstrations
- Puffco and partner releases
- Immersive art and interactive installations
- Food curated by Smorgasburg LA
- Community spaces, challenges, games, and a silent disco
Puffcon is not a traditional cannabis expo. It is consumer-facing, culture-first, and built for people who follow the extractors, collect the glass, use the devices, and understand why temperature, airflow, material, and technique matter.
There are no cannabis sales on-site. Brands can build activations, educate attendees, release merchandise, and showcase their work, but Puffcon does not operate as a cannabis retail market.
Why Puffco built Puffcon
Puffco was founded in 2013 by Roger Volodarsky, who still leads the Los Angeles company as CEO. Its focus from the start was hardware built specifically for concentrates.
Puffco’s approach was to combine product design, engineering, and concentrate-specific technology into a dedicated hardware company rather than adapt tools built for other materials.
The original Peak helped turn the electronic dab rig into a recognizable consumer category. Puffco later expanded its ecosystem through the Peak Pro, the Proxy, Pivot, Plus, Cupsy, Hot Knife, the 3D Chamber, and a growing catalog of glass and accessories.
By 2024, Puffco said it had sold nearly two million devices in more than 30 countries. See Puffco’s events calendar for a full list of brand activations.
That scale helps explain what makes Puffcon possible. Puffco is not simply selling hardware. It has built an ecosystem around which glass artists, accessory makers, extractors, collectors, creators, retailers, and consumers all operate.
Puffcon is where that ecosystem becomes physical.
The complete Puffcon timeline
2021: Puffcon proves the concept
The inaugural Puffcon took place October 2, 2021, at Los Angeles Center Studios.
Admission was free with an RSVP for vaccinated attendees aged 21 or older who owned a Peak or Peak Pro, or purchased one before registration closed.
The first music bill immediately established the event’s cultural lane: Action Bronson, Flatbush Zombies, and Buddy.
The vendor mix stretched beyond cannabis into functional glass, streetwear, art, food, and collectibles. Participating names included Alien Labs, Talking Terps, Trove SF, Fidel’s, Elbo, and All My Hats Are Dead.
High Times described it as the first major open-air cannabis consumption festival in Los Angeles since Proposition 64 took effect.
The company also used Puffcon to debut its 3D Chamber for the Peak Pro. That move established a pattern that remains central to the event: Puffcon is both a celebration of the existing community and a launch platform for what Puffco wants its most committed customers to experience first.
The first Puffcon worked because everyone arrived with a shared connection to the hardware. The event gave that crowd something larger to belong to.
2022: The Lot and Glass Open expand the culture
Puffcon returned on October 1, 2022, at Los Angeles Center Studios.
ScHoolboy Q headlined. Eshu Tune, the hip-hop alter ego of comedian Hannibal Buress, joined Ryan Celsius, Peach and Chay, Kittamami, and Kirk Summers on the day’s music programming.
Admission remained free for registered owners of a Peak, Peak Pro, or the newly released Proxy. Attendees had to bring a fully assembled Puffco device and government-issued ID proving they were 21 or older, with one entry per device.
The second edition gave the Puffcon Lot a more defined identity. The announced roster included Talking Terps, Alien Labs, Trevy Metal, Elbo, Fidel’s, Pyroscopic, Trichadelics, Empire Glassworks, Trove SF, Midnight Special, The Astor Club, Feeling Frosty, and numerous others.
The Puffco Glass Open also returned after pausing in 2020 and 2021, with winners announced on-site and winning pieces displayed at Puffcon.
Glass has never been background decoration at this event. Puffco’s hardware gives artists a standardized foundation on which they can build recyclers, dry tops, sculptural attachments, caps, and one-of-one functional pieces. Puffcon gives those artists direct access to a crowd that understands both the visual work and the engineering behind it.
The Lot developed into a hybrid of collector market, art fair, streetwear drop, brand activation, and very large community session.
2023: Puffcon becomes a major LA cannabis event
The third Puffcon landed September 30, 2023, and marked a clear jump in scale:
- More than 6,000 attendees
- 40 exhibitors
- 50-plus glass artists
- 14 food vendors
The music bill featured 2 Chainz, Action Bronson, and Curren$y, with additional appearances from comedian Frank Castillo, Zombie Juice, Ryan Celsius, and Kittamami.
The floor included major activations: the 710 Labs Interrogation Room, a Liquid Death hearse, the RIPNDIP ice cream truck, and a Jones Soda school bus. West Coast Cure recreated the house where CEO Jerett Wasserman first made concentrates. Ryan Fitt and Enuffglass ran live glassblowing demonstrations.
The ticket model changed too. Device owners paid $20 for admission and entered a Peak, Peak Pro, or Proxy serial number during checkout. A $50 plus-one option opened the event to somebody arriving with a registered owner.
That was an important shift. Puffcon remained anchored by hardware ownership, but the plus-one model gave its community a controlled way to bring in people who were interested in the culture without already owning a device.
Demand moved Puffcon beyond the scale of a customer-appreciation event. It had become a major date on the Los Angeles cannabis calendar.
2024: VIP arrives and production levels up
The fourth annual Puffcon took place September 28, 2024.
Larry June headlined a bill that included Action Bronson and Human Growth Hormone, 2 Dead Boyz (Zombie Juice and Meechy Darko of Flatbush Zombies), The Alchemist, Kirkland Summers, and Blake Webber. Ryan Celsius hosted a dedicated Celsius Sessions stage with Honeycomb and Bamboon.
The Puffcon Lot featured Fidel’s, Originals, Dee Thai, Alien Labs, West Coast Cure, Sugar Magnolia Farms, and Kalya. Liquid Death returned for a second year, while Lei’d Cookies, Taste of the Pacific, and Prince Street Pizza joined the food lineup. Dwreck and Ryan Fitt were among the artists running glassblowing demonstrations.
Puffco introduced a $150 VIP tier with express entry, lounge access, premium restrooms, and food vendors. The plus-one model also expanded across both general admission and VIP.
The larger footprint, deeper ticket structure, expanded vendor program, and festival-level stage production confirmed that Puffcon was still growing without abandoning its original audience.
2025: Two days and the first public Sunday
Puffcon expanded to two days for the first time on October 4–5, 2025.
Saturday remained rooted in the established Puffco community, with Key Glock, LaRussell and the Yee Section, The Alchemist and Friends, and Wynne on the music lineup.
Sunday became Puffcon’s first Public Access Day. Eric André brought Rapper Warrior Ninja Live to the stage, joined by Reggie Watts, DJ Uncle Blazer (Blake Anderson), and DJ Douggpound.
The expanded format included:
- More than 75 vendor brands
- Two full days of programming
- Live glassblowing
- Smorgasburg-curated food
- An Action Bronson pop-up restaurant
Puffco expected around 15,000 attendees across the two days, a long way from the free, single-day block party of 2021.
Opening Sunday to the public was the most important structural change in Puffcon’s history.
For the first four editions, the device requirement helped maintain a focused and highly informed crowd. The public Sunday introduced a broader audience to the culture without removing the owner-focused experience entirely.
What Puffcon’s growth tells us
Read the editions in order and the larger strategy becomes clear:
- 2021 proved that a hardware company could convene a real concentrate community.
- 2022 formalized the Lot, glass competition, and creator economy surrounding the devices.
- 2023 introduced paid admission and a plus-one as attendance passed 6,000.
- 2024 added VIP and a more mature festival structure.
- 2025 expanded to two days and opened Sunday to the public.
- 2026 pushes the glass program past 100 artists and adds a Metro Boomin headline set.
This is the real Puffcon story: controlled expansion without abandoning the subculture that made the event valuable.
Saturday and VIP remain centered on Puffco owners. Sunday gives people who are newer to hash, functional glass, or Puffco a way into the experience.
Consumers get performances, culture, and direct access to artists. Glassmakers get a concentrated collector market. Brands meet an informed audience. Musicians play to a crowd with genuine ties to cannabis culture. Puffco strengthens its community while introducing the category to its next wave of customers.
It is community strategy disguised as a block party.
Inside Puffcon 2026
Puffcon 2026 takes place Saturday, October 3, and Sunday, October 4, at Los Angeles Center Studios. The sixth annual event will feature two days of music, food, glass, art, brand activations, and community programming.
The venue is at 450 South Bixel Street in Downtown Los Angeles.
The 2026 music lineup
Metro Boomin headlines Saturday.
Action Bronson and The Human Growth Hormone headline Sunday.
The announced lineup also includes:
- Curren$y
- The Alchemist and Boldy James
- OhGeesy
- BIA
- Know Good
- 2 Dead Boyz
- TiaCorine
- Jesse Royal
- Kirk Summers
- Kittamami
- Dilly
- GBoH
As with any live festival, the lineup is subject to change.
Glass, brands, food, and experiences
The 2026 program includes a Glass Village featuring more than 100 artists from around the world.
Live glassblowing, collector sales, custom attachments, functional sculpture, and direct access to artists remain central to the weekend. Featured artists on Puffcon’s site include Ryan Fitt, Spider, Lissa Melts, Pakoh, and Reyna Rivera, and the wider roster includes names such as Cool Hand Suuze, Eternal Flameworks, Sky the Pyro, and Wormhole.
Puffcon 2026 will also include:
- A marketplace with more than 75 brands
- More than 50 large-scale brand activations
- Bear Mountain Studios’ Gauntlet Challenge
- Kenny’s Penny aRc&De
- Jonesy’s Silent Disco
- Immersive art installations
- Live glassblowing demonstrations
Smorgasburg Los Angeles returns to curate Feast Street, bringing a varied food lineup and event-exclusive dishes to the festival.
The brands get attention, but the artist floor remains the heart of Puffcon. This is one of the few major cannabis events where functional glass is treated as a primary art form instead of an accessory category.
Tickets, device rules, and entry
Puffcon offers single-day, two-day, VIP, and guest ticket options. General admission starts at $50 for Sunday, $65 for Saturday, and $85 for a two-day pass, before fees and tax.
Saturday tickets, two-day passes, and VIP admission require ownership of a qualifying Puffco device:
- Peak
- Peak Pro
- Proxy
- Pivot
In past years Puffco has verified ownership with the device’s serial number at checkout, so have yours ready.
Plus One and Plus Two add-ons, available after purchase, let device owners bring guests. An Express Entry add-on is also available.
Sunday general admission is open to the public and does not require a Puffco device.
All attendees must be 21 or older with valid photo ID, and the name on the ticket must match the ID. Puffcon runs a strict no-resale policy: only the original ticket holder is admitted.
Tickets and final entry details are available through Puffcon’s official website.
Before you go: logistics and event rules
There is no on-site parking. Rideshare is strongly recommended.
Bags larger than 10 × 5 × 8 inches must be clear. The venue is ADA compliant.
Prohibited items include:
- Torches
- Alcohol
- Weapons
- Tobacco and nicotine vapes
- Drones
- Professional cameras
- Outside food and drinks
- Coolers
- Glass bottles and cans
- Air horns
- Laser pointers
- Fireworks, spray paint, bicycles, and skateboards
Pets are not allowed, except service animals.
There are no cannabis sales at Puffcon. Do not arrive expecting a dispensary-style retail market inside the venue.
Artist drops and one-off glass move fast. Identify the glass artists and brands you care about before entering. The rare material rarely survives until the final hour.
Why Puffcon matters
Puffcon matters because it gives concentrate culture a physical center.
The performers are real headliners. The food program is no longer an afterthought. The brands arrive with serious activations. But what separates Puffcon from a generic cannabis festival is still the same thing that made its first edition work in 2021: the people on the floor care about the details.
The chamber matters. The temperature matters. The glass matters. The extractor matters. The artist behind the table matters. The difference between a mass-produced accessory and a hand-built functional piece matters.
Puffco understood early that hardware alone would not build this category. The culture surrounding the hardware would.
Puffcon 2026 is the largest expression of that idea so far—two days in Downtown Los Angeles where the online hash community becomes a real place, glassmakers get their gallery, brands meet their most informed audience, and the next chapter of concentrate culture takes shape in public.
Frequently asked questions
Do you need a Puffco device to attend Puffcon 2026?
A qualifying Puffco device is required for Saturday, two-day, and VIP admission. Sunday general admission is open to the public without a device.
Can you buy cannabis at Puffcon?
No. Cannabis sales are not permitted on-site. Puffcon includes brands, merchandise, glass, food, art, performances, and exclusive collaborations, but it is not a cannabis retail market.
Is Puffcon only about music?
No. Music is one part of a much larger program. The 2026 event includes more than 100 glass artists, live demonstrations, collector sales, art installations, brand activations, food, games, and a silent disco.
Who is performing at Puffcon 2026?
Metro Boomin headlines Saturday. Action Bronson and The Human Growth Hormone headline Sunday. Curren$y, The Alchemist and Boldy James, OhGeesy, BIA, 2 Dead Boyz, TiaCorine, Jesse Royal, and additional performers are also scheduled.
Where is Puffcon held?
Puffcon is held at Los Angeles Center Studios, 450 South Bixel Street, in Downtown Los Angeles. There is no on-site parking.
Is Puffcon open to the public?
Sunday general admission is open to the public. Saturday, two-day, and VIP admission remain reserved for qualifying Puffco device owners and their registered guests.
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