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this is the real danger:

Hash oil explosions

The opening months of Colorado’s first-in-the-nation recreational marijuana industry have seen a rise in fiery explosions and injuries as pot users try to make the drug’s intoxicating oil in crude home-based laboratories.
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Just to be clear, it's not the hash oil that explodes. Liquid butane is used as a solvent and that is very explosive.

Illegal methamphetamine labs have shown us the dangers of drug use explosive vapors. Everyone knows that meth is an evil drug that destroys lives and property, but marijuana was supposed to be harmless and good for children and all living things. I guess it should be expected that someone would find a way to endanger themselves and everyone else in the house.

Besides the home cooked drugs angle, there is another connection to meth lab. Liquid ammonia, the type used by farmers as fertilizer is needed for the process of making meth. Farmers have large pressure tanks out in the fields. The fittings for ammonia tanks are made from stainless steel. The fittings are identical to those used on propane and butane tanks, which are made from brass. Meth makers take the propane tank off their barbecue grill and walk out into the farmer's field at night and fill their propane tank with ammonia. This is fine, except for a little known fact of chemistry. Brass is normally a malleable and soft metal, but when exposed to ammonia, it become hard and brittle. This means when a tank from a meth lab is refilled with propane or butane, it becomes a bomb, waiting for the valve to snap off. This could happen while making hash oil, or hamburgers.

The root problem seems to be the free market economy. In Colorado, marijuana is noW legal and hash oil is available at pot shops. However, it is expensive. The current laws do not directly address the problem of people blowing themselves up, trying to home brew hash oil. For the time being, hash oil explosions are being treated as arson and child endangerment.
 
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This is not a problem with recreational drug legalization. It is a problem with a hole in the market's carrying capacity. 50 bucks worth of stems, trimmed leaves, and seeds (200 in prohibition states) makes enough hash to last me for almost a year. But it is not economical for a grower to save their trimmings, and the limits on sale quantity make the transfer of that pound of useless shit to a secondary processing company difficult... And hash is a better smoke with less harsh for the high. So people do what they have to to get what they want. If there were a legal framework for a few central buyers of cuttings to batch process hash oil, the prices would become reasonable to the point people would stop buying home kits and blowing themselves up.

It isn't very different from when the lack of affordable dry cleaning services resulted in gasoline explosions on a regular basis. It isn't a good argument against legalization, it is an argument that industries need to be legally free to meet the demands for commercial hash oil.
 
Jarhyn said:
This is not a problem with recreational drug legalization. It is a problem with a hole in the market's carrying capacity. 50 bucks worth of stems, trimmed leaves, and seeds (200 in prohibition states) makes enough hash to last me for almost a year. But it is not economical for a grower to save their trimmings, and the limits on sale quantity make the transfer of that pound of useless shit to a secondary processing company difficult... And hash is a better smoke with less harsh for the high. So people do what they have to to get what they want. If there were a legal framework for a few central buyers of cuttings to batch process hash oil, the prices would become reasonable to the point people would stop buying home kits and blowing themselves up.

It isn't very different from when the lack of affordable dry cleaning services resulted in gasoline explosions on a regular basis. It isn't a good argument against legalization, it is an argument that industries need to be legally free to meet the demands for commercial hash oil.
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I agree about hash. In those days, I preferred it to leaf.

What we have here is a amateurs attempting a dangerous industrial process in their kitchen. There is a reason hash oil is more expensive when bought at a legal store.

This is an illustration of the principle of unexpected consequences. No one foresaw the hazards of hash cooking when the pot laws were relaxed, and so we have a new public hazard, which will need new regulations.
 
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