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Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes
#19392576 - 01/09/14 07:52 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes
One man's body was literally smoking as he staggered down a residential street after an explosion in his illicit home lab
The New Year started with a bang—and burned flesh—for two Seattle-area potheads.
Roommates Robby Meiser and Bruce Mark were using butane to turn a stash of marijuana into hash oil when the gas ignited in their Kirkland, Washington, apartment. The subsequent explosion destroyed two homes and left both men hospitalized with scorched upper bodies.
The pair are actually among the lucky ones. In the week since the Jan. 1 blast, mishaps while making the heady goo have left a Hawaii man dead, a dude in Fresno, Calif., with second- and third-degree burns over 80 percent of his body, and an apartment complex in San Diego with $1.2 million in damage.
Hash oil’s potent trail of seared skin and annihilated homes shows no signs of slowing down in 2014, giving the mayhem long associated with meth labs a run for its money. Dozens of dope-smoking enthusiasts are paying a steep price trying to sap a better high from weed. And the carnage underscores an unintended consequence that’s accompanied the loosening of marijuana laws for medical and recreational use.
“We’ve been very fortunate that nobody has been killed,” said Jeff Satur, a police commander in Longmont, Colorado. The town, about 15 miles north of Boulder, dealt with its first hash oil explosion in 2012 when a man tried to smoke a cigarette while using butane to extract THC from pot. He nearly blew himself to smithereens.
Last month, Longmont police responded to reports of a man whose body was literally smoking as he staggered down a residential street, Satur said. It turned out that the victim, Benjamin Callahan, and a buddy had detonated a nearby garage that they converted into an illicit lab. Callahan was trying to bolt from the smoldering scene when cops found him. After two days in a burn unit, he fled the state to avoid arson and reckless endangerment charges. There’s now a warrant for his arrest.
Others have been far less fortunate. Two 23-year-olds in Livermore, California, faced murder charges in 2012 after a man inside their apartment blew himself up while cooking hash oil. Evan Aviles and Lexie Hutson, who were also severely burned in the accident, later pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and to being an accessory, respectively. Aviles is serving a three-year stretch in state prison. Hutson would not return multiple requests for comment.
“We took this case extremely seriously,” said Teresa Drenick, a prosecutor for the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office. “Not only did they put their lives in danger, but of those living in adjacent homes.”
In nearly all cases, the explosion victims used butane, a flammable solvent, to extract hash oil from marijuana. Typically, people fill a canister with pot and use butane to strip away the psychotropic plant oils. They then cook off the solvent by boiling the oil in a hot-water bath. Unfortunately, many folks produce the oil indoors where poor ventilation can cause explosions. The problem has become so persistent that the U.S. Fire Administration—a division of FEMA—published a brief memo on hash oil explosions last year.
Despite the dangers, cooking hash oil continues to surge in popularity. Dozes of DIY and how-to videos dot the Internet. States like Oregon, Washington and Colorado, which allow medical or recreational marijuana use, either permit or do not explicitly prohibit users from converting pot into the sticky substance. Perhaps most importantly, hash oil gets you fucking stoned. Containing 15 to 30 percent THC, a few drops can get you as ripped as a joint.
“Basically, it’s a whole lot stronger than normal weed,” said one Oregon man who lost his best friend, his fingers, half his flesh and the use of his right hand in a hash oil explosion. “I’m not scientist, but that’s why I did it.”
The man (who spoke candidly with Vocativ on the condition that his name be withheld) had extracted oil from pot plants several times prior to the blast that rocked his neighborhood outside of Portland, Oregon, last May.
One minute, he was in his garage and clutching a butane torch while the friend assisted him with the cook. The next, a powerful explosion triggered by a furnace pilot light hurled him through the garage door. Covered from head to toe in flames, the man began rolling around in his front yard. Then he realized his friend was still inside the garage.
“And the whole entire thing was a fireball,” he said. Still, he ran back into the garage and dragged his friend out of the burning rubble. The friend died in a hospital 18 days later.
As for the man, he spent six weeks in a medically induced coma while doctors performed a dozen operations on his charred body. He then spent another six weeks at the Rehabilitation Institute of Oregon.
Today, grafted skin covers his entire body from the waist up, he said. He lost his sweat glands and the use of his right hand. He and his girlfriend lost everything in their home from the explosion. His medical bills are $1.3 million.
The man said he has zero interest in ever making hash oil again.
“I hate to call myself a fucking idiot, but I guess I learned the hard way,” he said.
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Re: Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#19392758 - 01/09/14 09:13 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Actually did this myself. Hot water bath wasn't working outside because our source of heat wasn't strong enough in the winter. We brought a pan of butane in and did it on the stove. The butane gasses pool by the ground (even though we had doors and windows open) and when the compressor on the fridge turned on, it produced a spark and ignited the fumes. It created a temporary vacuum which sealed the door to the room.
I grabbed the pan off the stove, poured liquid flaming butane all over the front of my body and moved it several stems towards the door. Then my friends burst through the door and another friend grabbed the pan and carried it the rest of the way out.
We lost our eyebrows/eyelashes and had fairly severe burns up our arms/hands and neck but didn't need skin grafts.
At the hospital they gave us pain killers, pulled off the skin, and covered us in a cold soothing lotion called flamosine. I had to go back daily and submerge my arms in a saline water bath whirl pool which gracefully and painlessly pulled most of the "crap" and scab and flakey skin on my arms and then reapplied flamosine and rapped me up.
Fairly minor harm to the house - just needed to be painted. Had a very understanding friends mother upstairs...
We were really really lucky, considering the amount of butane we had and material we were processing.
I was shamefully ignorant and inconsiderate as a young man.
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Re: Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes [Re: PDU]
#19392778 - 01/09/14 09:20 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Re: Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes [Re: luvdemshrooms]
#19392873 - 01/09/14 09:50 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I have done lots of hash oil with butane or acetone.. Never happened anything bad.
I have done also more harder extractions but however, this kind of accidents have been happened in my country also in there Europe.
One explosion was so big whole concrete wall of apartment have been moved 10inches outside caused by explosion of butane. But for some reason no one have been injured in that apartment.
I don't know why some people doesn't just understand how dangerous this can be.. OR doesn't research enough about these solvents.
One friend of mine got acetone exploded in tray when he used too much heat and therefor acetone exploded and apartment kitchen catch fire.
This tek to extract hash oil is basically simple but dangerous if "cook" doesn't understand what they're doing with solvent and what's temperature can ignite the solvent to fire.
Sad stories.. I have myself big burn injuries but not because of any illegal lab explosion tho.
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Re: Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes [Re: intelligentlife] 2
#19392943 - 01/09/14 10:07 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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There should be a universal hash oil blasting safety hand book or something.. This type of stuff is what gives us a bad name. When the world hears about some retard smoking a cigarette while blasting solvents INDOORS, they assume we are all like that, and that we are all idiots. People who are doing things unsafely are giving us dabbers, and oil makers a horrible reputation to the general public who has no knowledge of hash oil making. All of a sudden they hear " some fucking retard killed himself making weed into better weed " That is just going to turn the close minded marijuana haters into even more of one. Please for the love of god if your gunna make oil do it right..
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Re: Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes [Re: intelligentlife] 3
#19392947 - 01/09/14 10:08 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Anybody that does this fucking deserves it. Go outside you retards! All this negative publicity is not helping people's views on cannabis.
Better yet, buy some fucking bubble bags and an ice maker! Water and ice aren't flammable!
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Re: Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes [Re: FungiJB]
#19392953 - 01/09/14 10:09 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Just smoke weed or make hash or edibles. Or get a CO2 extraction machine. Shit.
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Re: Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes [Re: happygolucky] 1
#19393012 - 01/09/14 10:25 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Since it is legal in CO and WA why not just have industrial hash oil making facilities? Industry can work safely, or fairly safely, with flammable and dangerous chemicals. I am sure a method can be devised to do it all with automated equipment. How many people get hurt during rocket fuel processing? Shit is blowing up because you can't follow basic safety procedures in a kitchen or garage.
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Re: Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes [Re: my3rdeye] 2
#19393083 - 01/09/14 10:47 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Keep in mind that the illegality of it, drives the process behind closed doors.
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Re: Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes [Re: PDU] 1
#19393100 - 01/09/14 10:52 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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PDU said: Keep in mind that the illegality of it, drives the process behind closed doors.
The only point that I have to make is that any danger associated with making hash oil is solely the fault of prohibition. Shit should be done on an industrial grade in controlled environments
Glad I'm not the first or second person to point this out
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Re: Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes [Re: Repertoire89] 1
#19393341 - 01/09/14 11:42 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Anyone who doesn't have basic lab safety skills doesn't need to be doing this kind of thing. Especially since most people use butane, which is damn near as bad as ether.
All hash oil making TEKs I've seen stress safety. If you're not smart enough, or don't have a place, to at least evap in front of a window with a fan, you should just smoke pot. I've been making oil for over a decade now and I've never had a fire, because I take precautions and listen to the safety warnings.
This is one reason I use acetone. It's very slightly safer.
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Re: Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes [Re: luvdemshrooms] 1
#19393594 - 01/09/14 12:45 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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luvdemshrooms said:
Perhaps most importantly, hash oil gets you fucking stoned. Containing 15 to 30 percent THC, a few drops can get you as ripped as a joint.
“Basically, it’s a whole lot stronger than normal weed,” said one Oregon man who lost his best friend, his fingers, half his flesh and the use of his right hand in a hash oil explosion. “I’m not scientist, but that’s why I did it.” .,.
15-30 percent? That's some SHITTY oil the author is dabbing. I doubt oil that weak even exists. Nobody would smoke oil that bad.
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Re: Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes [Re: SeascapeShroomerGT] 1
#19393730 - 01/09/14 01:31 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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luvdemshrooms said:
Perhaps most importantly, hash oil gets you fucking stoned. Containing 15 to 30 percent THC, a few drops can get you as ripped as a joint.
“Basically, it’s a whole lot stronger than normal weed,” said one Oregon man who lost his best friend, his fingers, half his flesh and the use of his right hand in a hash oil explosion. “I’m not scientist, but that’s why I did it.” .,.
15-30 percent? That's some SHITTY oil the author is dabbing. I doubt oil that weak even exists. Nobody would smoke oil that bad.

Good bud is 15-30% THC.
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Re: Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes [Re: SeascapeShroomerGT]
#19393735 - 01/09/14 01:33 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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What's the difference between hash oil & wax dabs? Semantic slang? Cause I know wax is processed with butane.
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Re: Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes [Re: Echro]
#19393789 - 01/09/14 01:48 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Echro said: What's the difference between hash oil & wax dabs? Semantic slang? Cause I know wax is processed with butane.
It's all different terms for BHO (butane hash oil), which is the "official" name. "Wax", "Crumble", "Oil", "Shatter" depict the consistency of the product which can range from solid (shatter) to oily (oil) or other various consistencies.
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Re: Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes [Re: Synthe]
#19394051 - 01/09/14 02:53 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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There should be a universal hash oil blasting safety hand book or something
That does not mean people will listen to it. You should not do it inside no matter what. And someone with an apartment usually does not have a backyard so they try to improvise some way to do it inside
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If you're not smart enough, or don't have a place, to at least evap in front of a window with a fan, you should just smoke pot
Not the smartest idea. And while I am a glassblower and a have a very extensive exhaust system set up and have done it twice inside at the bench, I would probably never do it again. Fans are electric devices perfectly capable of creating a spark needed to ignite. Just because you did it safely countless times, it only takes one spark to fuck your shit up. Even static electricity from your body . . .
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Re: Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes [Re: Synthe]
#19394083 - 01/09/14 03:00 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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I do truly feel bad for people hurting themselves in stories like this but cmon, I for one have made oil for years, I think the first time I ran tubes I was around 15 or so. Not one accident. Hell I have less cautious friends who also have been fine, even running indoors and shit.(Tards)People doing stuff like this should know what their doing and know what not to do.
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Re: Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes [Re: my3rdeye] 1
#19394213 - 01/09/14 03:26 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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my3rdeye said: Since it is legal in CO and WA why not just have industrial hash oil making facilities? Industry can work safely, or fairly safely, with flammable and dangerous chemicals. I am sure a method can be devised to do it all with automated equipment. How many people get hurt during rocket fuel processing? Shit is blowing up because you can't follow basic safety procedures in a kitchen or garage.
As far as I know you can do the same extraction with super-critical C02. In an industrial environment it would make a lot more sense to do that.
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Re: Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes [Re: Heffy]
#19394344 - 01/09/14 03:52 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Heffy said:
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my3rdeye said: Since it is legal in CO and WA why not just have industrial hash oil making facilities? Industry can work safely, or fairly safely, with flammable and dangerous chemicals. I am sure a method can be devised to do it all with automated equipment. How many people get hurt during rocket fuel processing? Shit is blowing up because you can't follow basic safety procedures in a kitchen or garage.
As far as I know you can do the same extraction with super-critical C02. In an industrial environment it would make a lot more sense to do that.
Yeah with a machine that costs tens of thousands of $$$
Not very practical . . .
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Re: Hash Oil’s Trail of Seared Skin and Annihilated Homes [Re: LiquidGlass]
#19394365 - 01/09/14 03:58 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Not to mention you can get machines somewhat like that for recycling butane. Then you can buy gallons of research grade liquid butane and recycle it as you make bho. But not very many people have the money for stuff like that.
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