The future still happens in California first.
If you want to see where marijuana and hash culture is going, look no further than the 10,000-stoner, 100-brand Puffcon Block Party in downtown Los Angeles, Oct. 4-5. The hash world gathered from the corners of the globe to feast on new flavors, fashions, and food—a prelude to the Instagram-driven trends destined to hit your feed any second.
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Let’s dig into what’s coming down the hash pipe.
Weed Trend—Hash Rosin!
Most of America really still hasn’t gotten on the modern hash rosin train.
Hash is concentrated cannabis, pure and simple. But nowadays, growers freeze harvests fresh to minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit, then ice water wash, and sieve the buds to collect the resin that gets you high. Then, hashmakers freeze the resin, freeze-dry it at negative 2000 PSI, and then heat-press the frozen resin at 160 degrees Fahrenheit and 300 PSI. The gold that squishes out of the press is called “live rosin” (aka hash rosin, and now just “hash”), and it’s taking over the market.
For example, the burgeoning New York recreational market has yet to see affordable live rosin, said Scott Hammond, from award-winning California-turned-New York hashmakers and growers Kalya. But it’s coming this winter.
Look for fresh live rosin near you to enjoy “weed that tastes like it smells,” Hammond said.
Growing Trend—Soil!
The best hash is often grown in “living soil”, as opposed to a hydroponic medium. That means the soil is alive with beneficial microbes like fungi and bacteria that provide a nutritious meal to fuel the most potent and flavorful herbs. (By contrast, off-the-shelf bottles of salt-based, petroleum-based nutrients kill everything in your soil; literally salting the Earth.)
More and more top-notch grows come from plants rooted in the terra firma. At Puffcon, hot rapper/designer Anwar Carrots moved from just rapping about soil health to his first potting soil collaboration with Vital Garden Supply of Nevada City, CA.
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Making compost, brewing compost teas, and inoculating the earth offers “a more intimate experience with the plant,” said Vital Garden Supply Founder Brian Malin.
Prep your soil this winter for some spring gardening.
Device Trend—Classy not assy
Hash doesn’t smoke like flower, and new hash-vaping devices are classing up dabbing.
The boomer uncles hitting tiny little metal pipes are dying off. Gen Xers have gone from “hot knifing” to soccer practice carpooling. The 2010s saw the advent of “dab rigs,” but a creme brule torch and a glass pipe never went mainstream.
Not so with Puffco’s revamped Proxy modular electronic hash oven. Now, dabbers look like Sherlock Holmes solving a mystery, instead of Dave Chappelle’s Tyrone Biggums. Just load and activate the device to heat and sip cool, potent, ultra-flavorful hash vapor. Pairs with your mobile device for even more dialed-in dabs.
Glass Trend—Customization
Puffco has become more than the world’s leading hash device maker. They’ve ascended to become a creator platform. What does that actually mean? A galaxy of after-market glass tops and attachments for the Puffco Peak, Proxy, and Pivot in 2025.
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Plain Jane Puffcos are washed. Puffcon 2025’s best-selling item was a custom glass top for the Puffco Pivot—the cigar-sized dab pen that fits in your pocket. Pair your hash pen to your personal style, be it: girly, aquatic, heavy metal, geometric, psychedelic, and beyond.
Look at Empire Glasswork’s Puffco Pivot tops.
Creative Trend—More Collabs
Two weed heads are better than one, and the era of creative cannabis collaboration is just beginning. Most sellers at Puffcon had a ‘collab’, and teamwork made the dream work.
Major clothing brand Broken Promises had no less than six collaborative apparel releases at Puffcon, spanning millions of followers: Desto Dub; Alien Labs; Zumiez; Smoken Promises; Kalya; and Gas No Brakes.
Founder Jason Blake said collabs rule mainstream apparel, but weed heads are still learning to stack paper by playing nicer.
“In cannabis, a lot of brands see each other as competition,” Blake said. “The reality is when you lift somebody up, you raise yourself as well.”
Reach out to a creator you admire with a killer collab concept.
Fashion Trend—Hunter’s Forest Camo Print
There’s some kind of cultural dialogue going on between red and blue America, and few want to admit it. Maybe it’s the youth’s noted swing rightward, or Lana Del Ray’s bayou marriage, but what I’ll call “hunter’s forest camouflage” print is a proper trend in weed culture now.
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Puffco sold a limited edition “MORE HASH” hat in forest camo, and it wasn’t Rambo types rockin’ it. This isn’t your classic army camo. It’s more washed out and vegetative, and thus earthier than traditional militaristic camo.
But now that the Supreme Court is considering lifting restrictions on pot smokers owning firearms, expect the camo trend to grow.
And that’s six hash trends coming to sesh this fall and winter. Now get out there in your collab camo hat and hit some living soil, live rosin dabs out of your custom Puffco Pivot—you rebel you.