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Making it is legal in Colorado, but the process of extracting highly potent hash oil from marijuana plants using butane is highly dangerous. And it might be going on next door. The number of hash oil ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — Late one Saturday night in May 2018, an explosion rocked a Spring Valley home, sparking a fire that sent the resident to a hospital with third-degree burns to about 30 percent of ...

A residential fire Wednesday was most likely caused by an explosion during illegal production of hash oil, Portland Fire & Rescue officials said Friday. Portland police arrested Christopher Ellett, 32 ...

DENVER – 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 ...

BHO, or butane hash oil, is a cannabis concentrate that’s made through using butane to dissolve and isolate the substances within the plant’s resinous trichomes. To remove the trace amounts of butane ...

BRANCH COUNTY, MI — More than 2,000 pounds of marijuana were seized along with psychedelics and a butane hash oil operation in Southwest Michigan, police said. The enforcement happened Wednesday, ...

Christopher Ellett had been making butane hash oil for over a year, his mother told investigators, before his alleged illegal hobby exploded in his face last week, court records show. Ellett, 32, was ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Portland Fire & Rescue investigators said a man was creating hash oil in his home when the butane he was using combusted and caused a fire in his home. Christopher Ellett was ...

What does butane have to do with recreational marijuana? And why does the 319-page law that made Minnesota the 23rd state to legalize marijuana ban the home extraction of cannabis concentrates using ...

Detectives with the Lake County Sheriff’s Office discovered more than 200 pounds of illegally produced hash oil, several assault rifles and four people who were trafficked over the course of a ...