Miguel Lozano’s Blazr Cannabis Dating App Is Building Community Beyond the Swipe

When Miguel Lozano tells me people call him the “Cupid of Cannabis,” it sounds almost too perfect. He is, after all, the entrepreneur behind Blazr cannabis dating app designed to help cannabis-friendly people find one another. But then Miguel tells me the nickname actually predates Blazr. He has introduced friends who eventually got married. As he puts it, he has been “shooting those arrows” for a while.

That detail made the rest of our conversation click. Blazr may be Miguel’s latest way of bringing people together, but connection has been woven through his work for decades. From streetwear and skate culture to the early days of cannabis events, upcycled cannabis magazines, and now technology, Miguel has spent much of his entrepreneurial life moving between subcultures and creating things for the people inside them.

Who Is Miguel Lozano?

Miguel Lozano is a longtime entrepreneur, cannabis culture veteran, and the founder and CMO of Blazr. His history in cannabis stretches back more than three decades, well before legal dispensaries and cannabis brands became part of the mainstream landscape.

His entrepreneurial story also runs through streetwear and skateboarding. Early in his career, Miguel was involved with streetwear culture before launching a brand called Resin with a business partner. He says the brand eventually reached international markets through distributors in places including Japan, Germany, and Spain.

That world brought him into contact with professional skateboarders and snowboarders and eventually led to one of the more wonderfully chaotic stories from our conversation: the Bong Olympics.

Created alongside people connected to the skate magazine Big Brother, the event turned smoking cannabis into a competition involving professional skaters and snowboarders. There was even a six-foot bong. The whole thing was documented in the pre-social-media language of the era: magazines and VHS.

It sounds almost absurd through a 2026 lens, but it also captures something important about Miguel’s career. Cannabis culture existed long before cannabis became a polished consumer industry. People were already making media, creating events, building brands, and finding one another through the plant.

Miguel was there for it.

How the Blazr Cannabis Dating App Grew From Cannabis Culture

Years later, Miguel met his current business partner, Jay, through another familiar part of his life: clothing. Jay owned a store and also worked in web development. Eventually, he floated the idea of creating a dating app.

Miguel immediately saw the cannabis connection.

Dating while being open about cannabis can still involve an awkward translation. A profile may ask whether someone “smokes,” but that single checkbox doesn't necessarily describe someone's relationship with cannabis—or tell you whether a potential partner is comfortable with it.

The Blazr cannabis dating app was created as a space where that conversation doesn’t have to begin with an explanation or defense.

But the platform is becoming bigger than dating. Miguel describes Blazr's evolution into a cannabis-friendly social network with groups built around interests ranging from pets and sneakers to events, as well as spaces for women and men. At the time of our conversation, he said the platform had members across all 50 states and in 88 countries.

That growth is leading Blazr offline, too. Miguel and his team are developing in-person gatherings, including puff-and-paint experiences and a cannabis twist on speed dating they call “sweet dating.” The platform's Trail Blazr program is also intended to help community members organize events in different locations.

And that may be where Blazr becomes particularly interesting.

A cannabis-friendly dating app solves one problem: finding someone who isn't going to judge an important part of your lifestyle. A cannabis social network addresses something larger—the need to find your people, whether or not you're looking for romance.

Cannabis has been doing that informally for generations.

Miguel remembers it from the days when access to the plant itself could introduce him to people from completely different worlds. I remember versions of it too: people from friend groups that otherwise might never interact ending up around the same good weed, food, and music, and somehow becoming friends by the end of the night.

The technology is new. The instinct behind it isn't.

"Cannabis definitely brings people together."

The Cupid of Cannabis Keeps Building Connections

Miguel's entrepreneurial path hasn't moved in a straight line. That's part of what makes it interesting.

At another point in his career, he helped create Weed Cycled after seeing accessories being made from newspaper. Miguel had accumulated cannabis magazines and wondered whether those pages could become something new instead of being discarded. The resulting accessories preserved pieces of cannabis print culture in one-of-a-kind objects.

People eventually suggested simply printing paper to reproduce the designs more easily. Miguel rejected the idea because, as he told me, that would defeat the purpose.

It's a small story, but one that says a lot about how he approaches business. Again and again, Miguel seems most interested in ideas that emerge from the culture around him rather than trying to force himself into whatever category is trending.

Blazr follows that pattern.

Cannabis legalization has transformed the industry Miguel grew up around, but legalization hasn't automatically eliminated stigma or created every space cannabis consumers need. Dating, friendship, events, and digital community still present opportunities to build something specifically for people who share this part of their lives.

And Miguel has another advantage that isn't particularly easy to manufacture: he genuinely likes connecting people.

"I just love people. I love community."

That's where the “Cupid of Cannabis” nickname came from. Long before there was an app attached to it, Miguel was introducing people in his own life. Some of those introductions became relationships and marriages.

Now he's trying to do that at scale.

Maybe someone opens Blazr and finds a date. Maybe they meet a future partner. Maybe they find friends who understand their lifestyle. Maybe they join a group, attend an event, or simply discover a corner of the internet where cannabis isn't something they have to awkwardly explain.

For someone who has spent decades watching cannabis bring unlikely groups of people together, it feels less like a pivot than a continuation.

"I guess I have been shooting those arrows for a while now."

Listen to my full conversation with Miguel Lozano on The Canna Boss Babes Podcast to hear more about Blazr, three decades of cannabis culture, the Bong Olympics, Weed Cycled, entrepreneurship, and why the Cupid of Cannabis is still finding new ways to bring people together.