There’s one leading portable electronic hash vaporizer—the Puffco Peak Pro—and it’s maintaining its lead this fall.
Released on the company Puffco’s ten-year anniversary in July, the re-designed Puffco Peak Pro ($420) updates the company’s flagship device, and shows Puffco sailing on into uncharted new waters.
Not the totally revamped model some had been expecting, this Pro represents the new baseline for the marquee product and captures the best “out of the box” experience.
What’s new in the Puffco Peak Pro in 2023?
The 2023 Puffco Peak Pro includes a revamped glass top. (Courtesy Puffco)
Past buyers of a Puffco Peak would often upgrade to a more heavy-hitting 3D Chamber, and add a custom cap to their hash oven, which is called an atomizer. Now, 2023’s Peak Pro includes both the 3D chamber and an upgraded carb cap as standard equipment. Furthermore, the glass top bubbler has a new five-hole percolator for cooler, bigger hits. Even though the air pathway in the base is the same size, you can notice the increased chug right when you test the water level.
Beyond that, the redesigned base uses a softer, sculpted rubber grip, has a faster vibration, and your choice of two new finishes: Onyx or Pearl. The Los Angeles-based company also updated the Hot Knife and Travel Pack in Onyx and Pearl.
You can notice the increased chug right when you test the water level.
Working in tandem is that totally redesigned ball cap that’s been dubbed “The Joystick” for its resemblance to a handheld controller. Gone is the single-carb glass, replaced with a metal, four-carb post that sits firmly in a rubber grommet. The improved seal is tight enough to prevent oil from splashing up, but you can still take it apart for deep cleaning.
In August, Puffco debuted the 3DXL chamber ($125)—a 78% bigger electronic oven for your hash that results in massive rips. Alongside a deeper chamber and a straw-like joystick cap, the 3DXL also unlocks a new vapor setting for the Puffco app on your smartphone—a new, super-chug mode that easily provides double the vapor of a non-upgraded Peak Pro. Longtime fans will also notice the deeper chamber prevents spillover from entering the device’s internal vapor path and damaging the device.
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What’s under the hood of the latest Peak Pro?
The bigger 3DXL Chamber for the Puffco Peak Pro came out in August. (Courtesy Puffco)
Mostly, the unit functions like a Peak Pro. New firmware along with the 3D chamber gives all users access to the “disco mode” heating update. There’s also a new, in-app vapor adjustment option to let you customize the output for each heating setting.
According to Puffco, vapor control “uses a precise formula to maximize the amount of energy transferred into the bowl prior to dabbing. This added energy—in the form of heat—creates more potential surface area for vaporization.”
Along with more customizable heating controls, the Onyx and Pearl also have a new inhale function that cues a personalized light show as you take your hit.
Is the latest Peak Pro version worth it?
For anyone who owns a current Peak Pro, it’s the percolating glass and joystick where you’ll feel the most FOMO. These items make the Puffco Peak push huge clouds. For this crowd, the choice to switch is a lot like having an iPhone 14 when the iPhone 15 comes out.
But those getting their first-ever Peak Pro will want to make sure to splurge on this new $420 package, over the now reduced “basic” model. It’ll save you time trying to figure out how to upgrade the basic unit. The $125 price tag on the 3DXL atomizer—while $50 dollars more than the already upgraded one that comes with this new Peak Pro model—is worth the money for fans who are chasing the biggest possible clouds, or like taking those big globs.
The Onyx and Pearl, the new 3DXL atomizers—plus the new Proxy Travel Bag—give fans the latest in Puffco’s accessories, app features, and appearance, just in time for their yearly Puffcon celebration happening September 30 in downtown LA.
Get there early, since Puffco has a pop-up store at the event where you can find screaming deals and often special early drops on the newest gear.
Vaping hash keeps getting cooler—now with the Puffco brand “Pivot.” This ‘dab pen’ is about the size of a magic marker, but delivers massive hash vapor clouds. Read on as writer Jimi Devine digs in.
The Puffco Peak hash vape bubbler gets the credit for taking us out of the Dark Ages of digital dabs. But Puffco had already taken over the dab pen market in the years prior.
When its first offering—the Puffco Pro—hit the market in 2013, the wind was instantly in Puffco’s sails. The Puffco Pro was a vape pen designed for concentrates and featured advanced technology that delivered a cleaner, more flavorful experience than anything the marketplace had ever seen. Its ease of use and quality took Puffco to the mountaintop seemingly overnight.
You would have been hard-pressed to find someone who owned a hash company without a personal collection of Puffco products by 2014. They were a must for dabbing discretely virtually anywhere. A few years later, the electronic hash bubbler dubbed the Peak dropped and made its mark on history, taking Puffco into over 30 countries in the time since.
But while the Peak and Peak Pro are awesome, the new Pivot feels a lot more like an homage to Puffco’s original products with its sleek and discreet design paired with its function.
“It has always been a goal of ours at Puffco to normalize concentrates in a way that removes the fear that new consumers may have,” said Roger Volodarsky, CEO and Founder of Puffco. “I can confidently say that our devices have led to an increased curiosity around dabs, allowing new consumers an avenue to explore new forms of cannabis consumption in a user-friendly way. The Pivot will only expand on that.”
Skip the bulky rig. The Pivot is your slimmed-down road dog. (Courtesy Puffco)
Puffco’s ‘3D Chamber’ is key
The Pivot is built around the workhorse of Puffco’s lineup, the 3D Chamber. Since its inception, the 3D chamber has been considered the height of atomizer quality and durability. Since it was first created, Puffco has built every new device around the tech. It’s paid off, few companies have been able to scrape out any market share in recent years.
The Pivot is also built with the smallest 3D chamber ever.
The argument is that since it is the same tech that is in the larger offerings from Puffco, the quality of the experience will be identical, just a little bit smaller.
The Pivot is also the most affordable product with a 3D Chamber to date—with a MSRP of $130.
The Pivot is arguably the biggest dab pen launch in the eight years since Puffco released the Puffco Plus. The retractable scooper underneath the the mouthpiece—the Dab Dart—were all the rage with that one in addition to some other hardware upgrades from the original Puffco Pro launch three years prior.
Now eleven years since that first pen, the Pivot has a variety of features that live up to Puffco’s standards of innovation. In addition to the miniature 3D Chamber, the pivot sports an angled mouthpiece. This allows the hash to pool more easily on the bottom of the chamber where the real magic happens while maximizing air and vapor flow.
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The battery is pretty solid too. Puffco says you should be able to get about 15 rips on a charge. The Pivot also simplifies USB charging compared to back in the day when you needed an adapter for the original Puffco pens.
The quick snap-on 3D chambers are also available in two-packs for $60. You can load them up like ammo, so your dabs are pre-packed for easy swapping on on the go.
And you know Puffco isn’t sending a new product out without accessories. You can hit the Pivot on your dab rig with a $60 adapter. Puffco also debuts a Travel Case available to keep your dabs and pivot organized on the go.
The Pivot goes on sale to the general public on Friday.
Dabs and globs go in, potent vapor comes out. (Courtesy Puffco)
It’s a pretty epic time to be into hash—the concentrated form of cannabis.
With 24 legalization states and climbing, hash diversity has bloomed, and so have the different price points. The top-shelf, California State Fair gold medal-winning stuff can cost more than $100 a gram after taxes. On the low end, $7 wax grams keep the working man elevated.
Thanks to the golden age of strains, hash can taste like papaya, honey, and even hamburger. Hash-infused joints are surging in popularity, and solvent-free live rosin is sweeping the country.
After you take a spin, here’s some hashes we’d love to taste.
California
In hash news around California, a 710 Hash Tour pops up around the state, while an SF Hash Week drenches San Francisco in terps. Airo vapes re-launches in California with four tiers including a solventless line. Ember Valley and Raw Garden both re-launch live rosin lines. Here’s some picks.
HolyWater live rosin split jars Trop Cherries / Habibi
Emerald Cup-winning outfit HolyWater brings out one jar with two separate dabs in it—so-called split jars of live rosin. Try the Trop Cherries, and then the Habbibi strain—and then both together for a terpy journey. See also: HolyWater hash holes.
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Nasha Hash
(Courtesy Nasha)
One of the state’s traditional makers of pressed and unpressed hash—Nasha—also swims in the solventless and vape pen wave. Look out for the Dark Rainbow cold cure live rosin at SF Hash Week. And then their new rosin all-in-ones from CCELL hit mid-July.
Alien Labs Planet Red Rosin; Connected premium live resin in CA, AZ and FL.
Michigan
The trend of the year is all-in-one (aka disposable) vapes that work with solventless extract (aka rosin). Check out Muha Meds 1-gram all-in-one Hash Rosin concentrates in Garlic Jelly, Donnie Burger, Tropicana Cherry, Galactic Gas, Apple Banana, Mimosa and Fatso.
See also: Errl King Mother’s Milk cured resin baller bucket; Breeze live resin Trop Cherry cart; Levitate Bacio Belts live hash rosin baller jar
Illinois
Illinois has gotten rapidly up the learning curve of good hash—from the era where you couldn’t get it at all, to solid hype solventless hash.
We’d check out: Revolution Danny Boy live rosin jam; Floracal Kush Mints live rosin badder; Rythm Slapz live rosin; and Cheetah Donny Burger disposable pen
The coolest device of 710
Puffco Proxy w/ Ripple Glass
In 2024, our electronic hash heaters are chic and modular. They swap into a dry pipe, a bubbler, or a traffic cone—if you’re a sophisticate. Grab the Puffco Proxy, plus a glass piece to go with it and a Hot Knife to show up respectably at any sesh.
Washington
Washington’s a mature cannabis market where you can see the whole range of legalization prices.
You can get Redneck Runtz wax for just $7 per gram from the brand Snickle Fritz. On the other side is a $75/gram Hash Burger from Fugu Farms. In the middle, Translucency White Punch rosin cart for $55 a gram.
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Colorado
Colorado hash smokers take the state’s cheap weed and arid climate to the bank—the hash bank. We’d try the: Green Dot Labs A5 Wagyu live rosin badder, 710 Labs Sundae Driver badder, and Airo Gelonade cart.
Arizona
Arizona throws down for hash. Thus, System of a Down’s Shavo Odadjian offers his 22Red brand Live Ice-Water Hash Rosin in Lima Haze and Cocololo, as well as Live Resin Badder in Chocolate Waffles and Tire Fire.
See also: Torch live resin disposable Passion Orange Guava, Varz Superboof cold cure live hash rosin baller jar, and Albert Einstone’s El Blunto infused 4-pack.
Florida
Sunburn Piattella Aged Water Hash
The exotic hash wave hits Florida with a terpene-rich aged water hash made using a traditional technique from Spain known as “Piattella.” It involves rolling and pressing cannabis resin into thin sheets, and then aging it. Sunburn dispensaries debuts it in Griz, Death Coast, Blue Zushi, Banana OG, Petrol Station, Dulce De Uva, Trop Cherry, and Rainbow Belts.
Maryland
(Courtesy Curio)
Curio live rosin all-in-ones, and dabs
The soul of the plant on demand in your pocket is the promise of live rosin all-in-ones, now on shelves in Maryland from Curio Wellness. Exclusively available at Far & Dotter and Pharmkent! Premium, this is small-batch live rosin extracted from 100% Curio Wellness fresh-frozen flower. Solventless, full spectrum, and clean—with a compact, sleek, modern design that is rechargeable. Available Strains: Future x Dosi (hybrid), Midnight Climax (MK Ultra x Raven), Wedding Cake.
New York
(Courtesy Select)
Select Briq Pineapple Upside Down Cake vape
Major vape player Select brings its Pineapple Upside Down Cake to 9 states including New York. Select runs on a custom-designed disposable Briq vape. With flavor notes of sweet pineapple, vanilla pound cake, and caramelized sugar with a cherry twist.
New Jersey
(Courtesy Ayr Wellness)
Ayr Wellness in New Jersey launches Haze x Mudd Brothers All In One Vapes on 7/10. They have the strains Caesar and GG4 live resin, as well as Tahoe Cream and Zero Gravity rosin. Proceeds support a social justice cannabis education and employment non-profit.
Massachusetts
(Courtesy Bountiful Farms)
Go for classic full-melt in Massachusetts with Bountiful Farms super-limited run of Southern Hashpitality #5 available at their dispensary in Natick, MA and retail partners Botera and Starbird with another drop expected just a few weeks later. The award-winning, premium, and independent cannabis cultivator crafts their full melt from indoor, whole-plant fresh frozen cannabis.
A lot of these places that are still figuring out how to grow weed can make some pretty killer extracts from their mid-grade. Not saying The Big Easy can’t make great flower, but their hash holds up! Check the:
Whether it’s rockets that land themselves, miraculous medical breakthroughs, or Beyonce—America stays winning no matter how much the haters hate.
On the country’s 248th birthday, those wins extend to cannabis freedoms as well. Stoners worldwide envy our 24 full legalization states and new ones in the pipeline. Ohio’s first legal sales occur this June. Floridians get to vote to end prohibition this November. Pennsylvania, Hawaii, and the Dakotas are fighting for weed freedoms. The country’s 40 million or so past-month weed smokers have more potent, pure, new flavors and modes of cannabis to choose from than ever in 2024 from Washington state to the beaches of Miami.
July 4th has become the third biggest sales period in the year, after 4/20 and the pre-Christmas stock-up. You need pre-rolls for popping out of the club. You need all-in-one vape pens to sneak a toke while camping with the cousins. You need edibles to rest up after way too much fun.
America’s fine dispensaries stand ready to serve. We surveyed the landscape for new flavors and certified classics to enjoy from 12 legal states. Jump down to picks for your area.
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California
Red Bubblegum
Fig Farms
Fig Farms’ new Red Bubblegum. (Courtesy Fig Farms)
The flavor of red gum, strawberry soda, and pink Mike & Ikes comes out in Fig Farms’ new Red Bubblegum. A cross of (White Runtz x Jet Fuel Gelato) x Zeclair—this hybrid indica goes great with an afternoon flick or some other chillax time. Fig Farms bred and hunted this variety from seed, and it leads off an epic lineup for Fig Farms in California, Illinois, and beyond.
Baby Turtle
Khalifa Kush
Khalifa Kush Baby Turtle. (Courtesy Khalifa Kush)
America’s chief weed rapper Wiz Khalifa focuses on that GAS with the new Baby Turtle—a cross of a Jokerz #31 variety to classic Khalifa Kush. For lovers of OG Kush and other green gas strains, expect a uniquely acidic fuel, with subtle notes of the earthy, lemon, and pine. Baby Turtle comes from indica hybrids for a relaxing, well-rounded high, tailored for an end-of-day session that will kick-start your night.
See also: A Golden State San Fernando Valley OG Kush, and Solful brand Headband.
California’s biggest brand when you add in Alien Labs has a new flagship summer sativa—Tropical Z. Punchy and sweet, Connected Tropical Z comes from Xeno x (Grand Daddy Purple Tom Hill Haze) #9, and has a lot of limonene, myrcene, and caryophyllene for the tart, dank, fuel smell. It conjures orange zest, island fruit, and shaved ice. Connected calls it, “a prime example of an excellently engineered sativa dominant strain. Perfect for staying focused and getting things done without leaving you feeling paranoid or overly caffeinated. Perfect for daytime and late-night use.”
Michigan cannabis sales have overtaken much larger California, due to much lighter government regulations. It’s another example of that Don’t Tread on Me energy that cannabis reformers have brought to the Midwest. There’s too much good stuff in Michigan and the weather is perfect. Check out:
After several years of mass-produced mids, Massachusetts is experiencing its first golden age of craft, high-end cannabis growers. We hit up Rolling Releaf’s Devin Alexander for strain selections including the Tower Three Cold Snap preroll. PAX has seasonal live rosin pods of the award-winning new Blue Lobster.
For hash—check out the Blue River Terps Watermelon Mimosa cold-cure, and Nature’s Heritage Ebony Ivory live diamonds and sauce. (“Terps” is short for terpenes—the aromatic essential oils in weed.)
New York has a handful of stores open in the New York City area with more coming online every week. The first indoor flower is coming soon. Until then, New York has some solid extract and edible options like:
Maryland had probably the most successful East Coast legal cannabis launch of all time, with a bunch of stores flipping to adult-use. Plenty of planning and stockpiling, as well as a clear launch schedule, meant that prices never surged and supplies never ran dry. Here’s a product spotlight:
Orange Drizzle 510 thread cart
Evermore Concentrations
These live resin vape carts from Baltimore-based Evermore bring together a hybrid of (Mimosa x Wedding Cake) for daytime fun. This strain hits the palate much like an orange upside-down cake with a confectionary front end and an orange tang lingering note. Rosin carts are nice, but this butane extract has great flavor, full stop. If you like California’s Holy Water or Coldfire Juice, you will be pleased with these options right in their backyard. The cart has 5.6% CBG for an anti-inflammatory effect. The label also boasts a staggering 9.1% terpenes, with a lot of β-Caryophyllene, Limonene, and β-Myrcene. It makes for a euphoric vibe that hits right in the eyes with a regular dose of puffs. The complete experience of ordering this cart through RISE Bethesda’s delivery service, throwing it on the battery, and feeling the energetic buzz was so seamless, that it’s an easy recommendation for the types of busy patients who would benefit most. (Max Blickstein)
Fade Co Mule Fuel pre-rolls for that kick to the head
Oregon
Get out onto that scenic, lush Oregon coast this summer, and don’t forget the world’s most affordable, diverse, and professional weed products. Oregon rocks rarities like Cosmic Treehouse Franco’s Lemon Cheese. It has endless amounts of quality extracts like Happy Cabbage Spritzer live rosin. And don’t forget the Wyld Strawberry Lemonade gummy or the Magic Number Ginger Beer.
Throttle up on the candy-gas terps with the latest from Washington—Kawazaki by Freddy’s Fuego. This strain brings together Z, Runtz, and RS-11. That’s like the whole candy terp movement in a nug, courtesy of Grounded Genetics. It’s a new staple in the large-scale indoor flower brand Freddy’s Fuego lineup. Fans voted it in the brand’s latest strain tryout contest called The Hunt.
America’s oldest legal cannabis market enters its summer high season with ample hiking opportunities and tons of events like shows at Red Rocks. Colorado has perfected classics on offer like Natty Rems Super Lemon Haze as well as new candy terps like Veritas Farms Shock Tart and weird savory hype strains like iion brand Pot Roast. For hash, don’t miss the Green Dot Labs Black Maple, or the local brand Dialed In gummies Zeeta Pizz.
Illinois
The Land of Lincoln puts another punishing winter in the closet and gets out along the lakes and trails this July. More and more top-tier strains and brands have made the state shine. Here are two standouts.
Cherry Stomper
Ivy Premium
Delight in the cherry pie aroma of Ivy Premium’s Cherry Stomper. With long-lasting effects and a delightful hint of gas. This relaxing strain, a cross between Cherry Pie and Grape Stomper, offers a mood-elevating experience with notes of pine and cinnamon. With a terpene profile featuring B-caryophyllene, B-myrcene, A-pinene, and linalool, this flower is a flavorful treat for cannabis enthusiasts. (Hannah Vysoky)
Jelly Roll
Ivy Premium
With its dark purple buds coated in glimmering trichomes, it exudes a musky, fruity aroma reminiscent of spreading jam on toast. The flavor profile includes hints of candy with a lingering cinnamon and orange aftertaste. Offering a medium-level intensity, this strain delivers a heady haze perfect for unwinding. Comprising terpenes like B-caryophyllene, B-myrcene, Limonene, and Linalool, it’s a sensory delight for cannabis enthusiasts seeking relaxation and euphoria.
(Hannah Vysoky)
Missouri
(Courtesy Timeless vapes)
Just across the bridge from Kansas City, Kansas lies Kansas City, Missouri—the midwest’s new legal weed bastion. Missouri boasts deli-style buying where you can stick your nose in a massive jar, plus they have drive-through options that would make Californians envious. Every day, Missouri gets further up the learning curve on fire flowers. Check out the Illicit brand Catalina Wine Mixer with your new best friend, and don’t miss the Cookies banger Apples & Bananas. Timeless vapes has the hot Z flavor Peach Ringz, and Select has these crazy Squeeze water enhancer drops in flavors like Peach Tea. So low-profile!
New Jersey
Ridgeline LANTZ is Green Lantern x Ice Cream Cake x Runtz. (Courtesy Ridgeline Farms)
Just across the river from New York, but with a world more options—New Jersey stands ready to take it to the shore with the nation’s top brands. Cookies brings Humboldt to Jersey with Ridgeline’s award-winning Runtz cross Lantz. Another key player is the Cookies Gary Payton. For edibles, the top brand Kynd has the top strain in edible form, Lemon Cherry Gelato. Also, Gron has 2:1 Tangelo Pearls. And Verano has Swift Lifts Motorbreath pre-rolls for grabbing and going.
New Mexico
One of America’s newest legal weed states heats up for its first proper pot girl summer with Wyld Raspberry Sativa Gummies and Dixie Brand Half and Half tea and lemonade. Hash heads should check out the Couchlock Live Hash Rosin Blueberry Muffins, and the Ghost brand Ghost Train x Iced Grapes hash hole. If you’re feeling like an adventure, put the West Coast Toad strain by Tyson 2.0 in your lungs.
And that is some serious works of fire for the Independence Day break! Rest up, because when you get back—Uncle Sam needs you to play your part in this experiment in self-government.
