Posted on 10/28/2010 12:26:55 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
COOS BAY — An attempt to distill the active ingredient from marijuana caused a refrigerator-demolishing explosion at a home on Monday, fire investigators in Coos County have concluded.
The Charleston Fire Department got a report at about 1:05 p.m. of a loud explosion on Jerome Road, Coos County Sheriff's Department Sgt. Pat Downing wrote in a news release. Fire crews found that a refrigerator at the home had exploded, shattering a window, dislodging cupboard doors and drawers, and scattering food around the kitchen. Firefighters called for the help of the sheriff's department and the state fire marshal's office to figure out what happened.
Investigators determined that one of four people living at the house had been extracting THC from marijuana with a method that used butane gas, Downing said. It appears that butane gas had built up in the home and when the freezer portion of the refrigerator turned on, a small spark ignited the butane gas, which caused the explosion. No fire erupted, but the blast blew the door off the refrigerator and through a wall in the home, Downing said.
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An 18-year-old woman at the home was resting on a couch and was uninjured in the explosion, Downing's release said. Investigators suspect that the force of the blast and flying debris could have seriously injured anyone standing in the kitchen or living room.
Deputies are working to determine if any of the home's residents had a valid medical marijuana card, Downing reported. He said the case will be referred to Coos County prosecutors for review of possible drug charges.
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I hate it when that happens.................
Oregon, for those who are interested.
Well, there's a headline you don't see every day.
Save the beer and munchies!!!
One of the occupants was heard to say “FAAAAR OUT MAN!”
Even with such a card I doubt the distillery would be legal.
I guess its time for me to get a medical marijuana card. I’ve got a drivers license and social security card, but so far my government hasn’t given me a medical marijuana card. Where do you get one? I would like to run a THC lab in my kitchen to save all those folks suffering from marijuana.
You are thinking the same thing I am.
Why would this make a difference? Would a card make it not a crime?
Fortified marijuana?
Shows how much I know about that crap.
High tech...............really high................
There used to be a cult of assassins that smoked hash and would take a young man passed out from too much, and he would wake in a garden filled with nubile young women and gourmet foods and music. He would eat his fill, enjoy himself, and then the women would pull out the hashish and smoke him out until he passed out. When he woke the next day, they would tell he he had seen the paradise that awaits him if he dies for the cause.
They used to assassinate prominent Muslims in the Mosque on Friday! Absolutely a suicide mission, but it let them know that NOWHERE is safe!
Now you know more about hashish than most! ;)
Hmm.
Interesting.
A Crusader bragged to the Old Eagle that his army represented true power. The leader of the Assassins called to one of his men on the wall and told him to jump off, and he did, he called to a second and the second did the same, he was going to call to a third when the Crusader restrained him in horror.
“THAT is power!” he concluded.
When Saladin was having problems with the Assassins he took to having his men stand guard with linked arms making a circle around his tent. He woke with a red dagger (their symbol) beside his head. He capitulated to their demands saying
“They make arguments that are hard to ignore.”
I thought most drug related explosions were from methheads blowing up their motel rooms with “lab equipment”.
Ususally are, but if using butane as a solvent catches on...
Why?
Based on what I sampled a few year’s back (not a regular pot smoker) it damn sure didn’t seem to need any fortification.
A far cry from what I occasionally smoked in my youth.
Interesting. heh... They "made him an offer he couldn't refuse..."
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