Hash oil is seen outside a suburban San Diego home that was the site of a hash oil extraction laboratory explosion. Credit: REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson What does butane have to do with recreational ...

DENVER — Colorado lawmakers advanced a measure that would make it a felony to use explosive gases to make hash oil at home. The proposal is a response to explosions and injuries resulting from amateur ...

Several new laws went into effect on Wednesday, including one that makes manufacturing marijuana concentrate without a license a felony. That new law, sponsored in part by Rep. Yeulin Willett, R-Grand ...

Two Grand Junction men who admitted to running a hash oil extraction operation are in custody on drug-related charges after a New Year's Eve explosion in the house where they operated, according to ...

DENVER – Alarmed by a rash of explosions and injuries caused when amateurs make hash, lawmakers in Colorado and Washington are considering spelling out what’s allowed when it comes to making the ...

Philomath police issued Justin Shannon a citation on Dec. 27 after emergency personnel put out a fire in his kitchen caused by a boiling pot of marijuana extract and rubbing alcohol, a concoction ...

A man was arrested after a stove-top attempt at making hashish oil turned into an explosion and early morning house fire, Colorado Springs police said. Police raced to assist firefighters after the ...

ROUND ROCK, Texas -- Police have arrested a man after they say his attempts to make hash oil led to an explosion at the house where he was living in June. According to court documents, officials ...

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