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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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...