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Getting the most bang for their buck is putting some marijuana users at risk.
The trend of making butane honey oil is growing across the north state, as are the fires and severe burns that often come along with the process.
This butane honey oil, or as some call it hash oil, combines the leftover remnants of the marijuana leaf and the highly flammable gas, butane.
These labs are popping up more frequently across the north state, and with the high rate of accidents associated with the process, officials are working to nip this trend in the bud.
Butte Interagency Narcotics Task Force Commander Carl Sturdy says, If you combine this with smoking marijuana, it's almost like lighting a stick of dynamite at the same time.
An internet sensation, and now a marijuana trend in the north state.
Manufacturing the plant form of the drug into sticky oil, similar to honey.
Sturdy says, We're actually seeing more butane honey oil labs than we are meth labs right now.
From Paradise to Bangor, the Butte Interagency Narcotics Task Force has broken up several butane honey oil labs in the past few months alone.
It's a way to knock off the microscopic tri-combs, says Sturdy.
With a few simple products, a schedule one drug becomes a firefighters nightmare.
Butane is heavier than air so itll go to the floor and will leach its way out until it finds an ignition source and once it finds the ignition source, itll violently explode; very hot and very fast, says Sturdy.
That's how they're often discovered too, after the lab explodes or starts a fire.
The unsafe practice has taken its toll on experimenters.
And surprisingly, many are very willing to share their dangerous experiences online.
One webcaster on YouTube admittedly says, The moral of the story is butane is flammable and really think twice before your actions. Im an idiot.
In fact the internet is littered with information on butane honey oil and including how-to video clips on the topic.
So it begs the question, why on earth are people putting themselves and their homes at risk for a little vial of THC?
According to most of the pages we found online, it's a way to use the entire plant and provides a different type of high.
But the way law enforcement sees it, no high is worth an explosion or several years in jail.
Sturdy says, It's the same punishment as making methamphetamine. There's no exception for making hashish with butane, you can possess it with your medicinal marijuana recommendation, but you can't make it.
Once a lab has gone bad, marijuana users have the scars to prove it.
Usually people who stop using it are the ones who suffered some kind of injury.
Officials hope education will prevent people from even trying this it home, because this is a lesson most people don't want to learn first hand.
hxxp://tinyurl.com/3uwckmv
The trend of making butane honey oil is growing across the north state, as are the fires and severe burns that often come along with the process.
This butane honey oil, or as some call it hash oil, combines the leftover remnants of the marijuana leaf and the highly flammable gas, butane.
These labs are popping up more frequently across the north state, and with the high rate of accidents associated with the process, officials are working to nip this trend in the bud.
Butte Interagency Narcotics Task Force Commander Carl Sturdy says, If you combine this with smoking marijuana, it's almost like lighting a stick of dynamite at the same time.
An internet sensation, and now a marijuana trend in the north state.
Manufacturing the plant form of the drug into sticky oil, similar to honey.
Sturdy says, We're actually seeing more butane honey oil labs than we are meth labs right now.
From Paradise to Bangor, the Butte Interagency Narcotics Task Force has broken up several butane honey oil labs in the past few months alone.
It's a way to knock off the microscopic tri-combs, says Sturdy.
With a few simple products, a schedule one drug becomes a firefighters nightmare.
Butane is heavier than air so itll go to the floor and will leach its way out until it finds an ignition source and once it finds the ignition source, itll violently explode; very hot and very fast, says Sturdy.
That's how they're often discovered too, after the lab explodes or starts a fire.
The unsafe practice has taken its toll on experimenters.
And surprisingly, many are very willing to share their dangerous experiences online.
One webcaster on YouTube admittedly says, The moral of the story is butane is flammable and really think twice before your actions. Im an idiot.
In fact the internet is littered with information on butane honey oil and including how-to video clips on the topic.
So it begs the question, why on earth are people putting themselves and their homes at risk for a little vial of THC?
According to most of the pages we found online, it's a way to use the entire plant and provides a different type of high.
But the way law enforcement sees it, no high is worth an explosion or several years in jail.
Sturdy says, It's the same punishment as making methamphetamine. There's no exception for making hashish with butane, you can possess it with your medicinal marijuana recommendation, but you can't make it.
Once a lab has gone bad, marijuana users have the scars to prove it.
Usually people who stop using it are the ones who suffered some kind of injury.
Officials hope education will prevent people from even trying this it home, because this is a lesson most people don't want to learn first hand.
hxxp://tinyurl.com/3uwckmv
