Amateur hash-oil production, explosions bound to continue [WA]

The Seattle Times ^ | Feb. 8, 2014 | Robert Young

[steve86]

From Spokane to Seattle, Vancouver to Mount Vernon, amateur chemists have caused explosions in recent months, often in homes, while using flammable solvents to produce hash oil.

The most recent blast occurred Monday in a Spokane Valley kitchen. Three weeks earlier, an explosion in a Vancouver home left a man hospitalized with burns to his face.

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This phenomenon is not part of the state’s legal marijuana system. Under rules for the state’s new industry, hash oil can only be made in licensed facilities, and those do not include homes.

State rules also require that only certain equipment and chemicals be used, for safety reasons. No facilities have yet been licensed by the state, which is sifting through 7,000 applications for marijuana businesses.

Still, amateur hash-oil production and resulting explosions likely will continue, as the Internet is rife with tutorials and the popularity of the super-potent hash oil is increasing with young stoners

[steve86]

The drug’s use has soared with the rise of vaporizing devices, such as “vape pens,” sleek cylindrical gizmos that look like e-cigarettes. Vaporizers are used to consume “dabs” of hash oil in a way that lacks the telltale odor of burned marijuana flowers and is more discreet than sparking a joint or blazing a pipe bowl.

[jiggyboy]

"When will they learn. Proper training and equipment, people!"

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[HangnJudge]

Supercritical (liquid) CO2 is often used to obtain very concentrated “botanical extracts” or so I’ve heard

[Para-Ord.45]

Perfect.

Next up in the utopian`s world, community college classes in drug production.

Wonderful, keep everyone fat, stoned and stupid.

[babygene]

“Supercritical (liquid) CO2”

There’s no such thing as supercritical (liquid) CO2. The critical temperature is the temperature above which it can only exist as a gas regardless of the pressure.

[GeronL]

lol

brave new libertarian paradise

[Army Air Corps]

So, you’ve read the Democrat Party platform.

[HangnJudge]

They are using liquid CO2 under appropriate pressures to operate at room temperature, mixing the herbal matter in a pressure vessel to get the extract. The CO2 boils off, leaving a relatively pure extract of cannabinoids, without the other impurities associated with other organic solvents. One process uses “dry ice” as the co2 source.

[Usagi_yo]

People in a hurry blow themselves up making dangerous warm baths to evaporate the highly flammable solvents they’re using to extract THC. Smart people wait a day and just use a strong fan in a well ventilated area or a vacuum chamber.

[Elle Bee]

you need acetone ... preferably reagent grade

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[jonrick46]

[Yorlik803]

Butane+Stoner= burn unit.
Worked with a kid who did this. Always expect to read his obit in the newspaper.

[ABN 505]

Yo! Science Mr. White!

[a fool in paradise]

I thought they said they'd be satisfied with just plain pot. That it wouldn't become a gateway to harder drugs and more potent highs.

That with legal dispensaries that are heavily regulated, underground trafficking would go away and the states would profit and the drug war would be ovah with no minors using and no additional car wrecks, etc...

[a fool in paradise]

There will come a time when farmers are paid by the government NOT to grow pot, rather consumable food crops that pay less but are more vital.

[steve86]

I thought they said they'd be satisfied with just plain pot.

I don't think your attempted analogy to queers and 'we only want you to stay out of our bedrooms' is going to cut the THC.

At no time do I remember the pro-pot forces in Washington State saying only dried flower forms would be made legal.

[dfwgator]

"They blowed up real good."

[Monitor]

“Hold my joint and watch this!”

BOOM!