Punch Edibles & Extracts is the Los Angeles cannabis company Andrew and Samantha O'Donnell founded in 2013 around the PunchBar, a palm-sized chocolate bar split into segments. The catalog has since grown into gummies, malt balls, solventless extracts, vapes, pre-rolls and Tempo crackers, sold in California, Oklahoma and New York.
The extract side now carries the weight. Headset tracked the combined brand in 676 licensed dispensaries in August 2026 and ranked it No. 4 in California concentrates.
Cake-store molds and Prop 215 dispensaries
The O'Donnells are a husband-and-wife team. Andrew is founder and CEO, and Samantha is co-owner and CFO. Respect My Region traces the start to San Diego, where the pair found two-by-two molds at a local cake store and worked out how to fit cannabis into a chocolate bar that sat in a palm.
They shopped the first bars to local dispensaries during California's Proposition 215 era. Samantha O'Donnell told Snack & Bakery in December 2023 that the couple "stumbled upon making edibles" that took off. Punch moved into adult-use retail after Los Angeles legalized sales in 2018, and it expanded to other states as a self-funded company.
Six chocolate lines and 30 bars
Chocolate is still the core. Punch says its six product lines total 30 chocolate bars, all lab tested. The chocolate and candy side breaks down like this:
- PunchBar: the original segmented bar that launched the company.
- Punch Bar Cookie Delight: a cookie-and-chocolate bar built with a neighboring cookie manufacturer, which helped size the molds.
- Punch Bar Creams: a separate cream chocolate line.
- Asteroids and Malt Balls: the bite-size chocolate lines.
- Gummies: gelatin-based traditional gummies and agar-based vegan fruit snacks.
The bars earned trophies early. At the 2018 SoCal Cannabis Cup, the Sugar Free Dark Chocolate Cherry bar took second place for Best Edible, according to High Times. The magazine also put Punch on its Best Edibles of 2017 list.
The gift guides followed. Mandatory named Punch on a 2019 edibles list, LA Weekly featured it in its 2020 holiday cannabis gift guide, and Thrillist picked it among its best edibles. Culture magazine ran several product features, and Forbes filmed a video interview with the company.
Solventless extracts, Rocket pre-rolls and Tempo crackers
Punch Extracts runs its own site under the Punch Edibles Media, LLC name, with "craft solventless extraction" as its banner and a 2026 copyright. The menu splits into solventless, vape, distillate and Rocket. The pre-roll side carries two lines, Rocket and Stingers.
Crackers came next. Nosh reported on May 9, 2024 that Punch had acquired Tempo Crackers to move into savory edibles, alongside a co-manufacturing business it runs for other brands. Tempo's site, copyrighted to Punch Media, LLC, lists THC crackers in Truffle Parmesan, Chili Limon, Buffalo Cheddar, Sour Cream Onion and Salt & Vinegar, plus all-in-one vaporizers.
The Punch site also names Dr. Norm's as a sibling label. Its wholesale desk books new accounts for both Punch and Dr. Norm's, for licensed California collectives only.
Oklahoma first, then New York
Oklahoma was the first move out of California. Punch entered the state's medical market through a licensing deal and later secured its own license, Snack & Bakery reported in December 2023.
New York followed. On September 8, 2023, Punch announced its entry into New York's adult-use market with Punch Gummies in five flavors. Eight Punch Bar Original chocolates and three Punch Bar Cream chocolates were slated for late in the fourth quarter. Samantha O'Donnell called New York "one of the greatest cities on earth."
The launch list named Good Grades, Housing Works, Union Square Travel Agency, Dazed, Smacked, William Jane, Just Breathe and Upstate Canna Co., plus the delivery service Legacy Dispensers. Punch produces for New York through a local license partner, Samantha O'Donnell told Respect My Region in October 2023.
Punch Points, Punch Cares and fake-bar checks
Punch Points is the loyalty program, and it runs on scissors and stamps. Buyers earn one point for each edible purchase and two for each extract purchase, cut the points from the boxes and mail them with a redemption form to the company's Canoga Park address in Los Angeles.
The prize table starts at 15 points for a lighter leash or hat pin. Dab mats cost 25 points, mugs 42 and black sweatshirts 135. The top item is the Power To The People Backpack at 150 points. Punch Cares, the company's giving program, supports California veterans and medical cannabis patients.
Popularity brought copies. Samantha O'Donnell told Respect My Region in October 2023 that counterfeit Punch Bars had spread across New York. The brand answers with product verification programs: Berify in Oklahoma and LucidID in California.
Headset's August 2026 read on Punch
Headset tracked Punch Extracts and Punch Edibles in 676 licensed dispensaries across six states in August 2026, 523 of them in California, with 635 SKUs. Concentrates made up 49.51% of sales and vapor pens 35.51%. Edibles came in at 9.64% and pre-rolls at 5.33%.
In California, Headset ranked the brand No. 4 in concentrates, No. 26 in edibles, No. 29 in vapor pens and No. 80 in pre-rolls for August 2026. The top three sellers were all 1g distillate cartridges: Blue Z, Blue Dream and The Z. Sales ran 10.6% below the same month a year earlier.
Punch Extracts carries a 2026 copyright, and the Punch Edibles site lists California, Oklahoma and New York as its three markets. Wholesale requests go through a web form or 323-902-7320, and general mail goes to info@punchedibles.com.
For adults 21 and over.