Puffcon is Puffco's annual block party in Downtown Los Angeles — a street takeover built around hash, glass, music and the people who take all three seriously. What began in 2021 as a one-day party for the brand's device owners now fills two full days, and the 2026 edition took over DTLA on October 3 and 4.
A Hardware Brand Throws a Party
The first Puffcon ran on October 2, 2021 at Los Angeles Center Studios, and the guest list explained the whole idea: admission was free for anyone 21 and over who owned a Puffco Peak or Peak Pro. Action Bronson, Flatbush Zombies and Buddy played, and nothing was sold on site — this was a session, not a sales floor.
That origin still shapes the event. Puffco has been building vaporizer hardware since 2013, and Puffcon is the company's own thank-you to the community that made dabbing a culture rather than a product category. CEO Roger Volodarsky put the booking philosophy plainly around that first edition: the artists on the bill are people who genuinely engage with hash and love concentrates, not names rented for reach.
From Studio Lot to Street Takeover
The second annual edition moved into Downtown Los Angeles proper on October 1, 2022, and downtown has been home ever since. By the fourth edition in 2024, the party covered multiple city blocks, Larry June headlined, Action Bronson was back on the bill, and the day included a run at a group-dab world record.
The through-line is Action Bronson — on the very first flyer in 2021 and still featured alongside Metro Boomin for 2026. Few festivals of any kind keep an artist relationship running that long, and it says something about who this event is actually for.
What the Block Party Actually Is
The floor is a curated vendor market — merch, glass and food from around the globe — plus exclusive drops from Puffco and friends that are only available at Puffcon, first come, first served.
Glass gets top billing here in a way no other cannabis event matches. The 2026 featured-artist roster includes Ryan Fitt, Lissa Melts, Spider, Pakoh and Reyna Rivera, each introduced by name on the official site like acts on a lineup poster. At Puffcon, functional glass is headline culture, not a merch table.
The 2026 Edition
Puffcon 2026 ran Saturday, October 3 from 2 to 10 PM and Sunday, October 4 from 1 to 9 PM at Los Angeles Center Studios, 450 S Bixel St, in Downtown LA. Dates for the next edition have not been announced; watch the official Puffcon site for the next release.
The house rules give a sense of how it runs. The 2026 event was strictly 21+, IDs had to match the name on the ticket, and resale was banned outright. Lines could not form before noon Saturday or 11 AM Sunday, bags over roughly ten inches had to be clear, and water refill stations ran all day, rain or shine, with no refunds.
Why It Matters
Brand-thrown festivals usually feel like marketing with a stage. Puffcon earned its way out of that category by being built around the ritual itself — hash, glass and a street full of people consuming together in the open, which is still rare even in legal California.
Five years in, it has grown from a studio-lot gathering into the anchor of LA's fall cannabis calendar — sharing a 2026 downtown weekend with ComplexCon, and playing consumer bookend to a season of trade floors. If the culture side of cannabis is what you came for, this is the date to build the trip around. The rest of the season lives on the High Rise events calendar.