Bho Disasters (PLEASE READ!)

[Loc Dog]

I try to be neutral, and hear all sides, but can not condone blasting, from stories I have heard. An explosion a day for last month.

Those that do it to high standards, could be implicated, for the ignorant.

THIS IS NO JOKE!!!! DO NOT RISK CATASTROPHE!!!!!!!

If you can not afford, just smoke more!!!!

I do not want to see one more disaster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Loc Dog]

Would love to see Marlon Wayan's do PSA against it.

Better yet, Snoop Dog!!

 

[Crooked8]

Unfortunately loc, realistically, youre going to see more

 

[jump /injack]

Taken from Gray Wolf:

“For starters, I never personally do a butane extraction indoors or any confined space! None at all, zero, zip, forget about it! It is important to keep it below explosive limits!
I do it all outdoors, with a non sparking plastic fan blowing, not sucking, the butane evaporation away! Butane loves self abuse and will clump together and pool, being that it is heavier than air.
I use three fans to keep any free butane dispersed below ignition limits of 1.86% and from it pooling and accumulating in low spots like through my basement window to my basement, chock full of ignition sources.
The central point is that concentration of the butane boiling off can be kept diluted below combustion limits, by blowing the accumulating vapors away using a fan.”

The old saying of "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cures" is apropos when using butane. You might be lucky a few time or a thousand times but it is that 'one' time that you and everyone around you when your luck runs out will remember. A butane fireballs interior if your inside of it will set the fat on your body afire, it will melt your eyes like it can steel and if it doesn't kill you, you'll wish you were dead. Take a look at the picture of 2nd and 3rd degree burns below, one day in a burn ward at $6000 per day will buy a lot of "closed systems".

2nd and 3rd degree burns:

http://www.google.com/search?q=2nd+...7Aqa_2QXS04CoDQ&ved=0CCcQsAQ&biw=1345&bih=841

 

[Loc Dog]

I use the same precautions, outside, with closed loop. Only one large pushing fan, to blow away from house, and down hill.

Anyone considering blasting should view 2nd and 3rd degree burns.

 

[jump /injack]

http://www.oregonlive.com/marijuana/index.ssf/2014/05/butane_hash_oil_explosion_shat.html


Butane hash oil: Gresham explosion shatters lives, leaving 1 man dead


Kevin Tveisme was in his Gresham garage with a buddy last spring making a popular form of hash oil, something he’d learned to do from watching YouTube clips and talking with friends.
It wasn’t his first time using butane, a cheap and flammable solvent used in lighters, to extract tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, from marijuana flowers and leaves. But this time it went horribly wrong.
When the furnace clicked on that afternoon, it ignited a blast that tossed Tveisme through the air, slamming his back into the closed garage door. He was on fire. Stumbling to the side entry of his house, he flung open the door. He thought he’d drop and roll on the carpeted floor of his living room.
Full report
This article is part of The Oregonian's series about the growing demand for butane hash oil and how that market is met by an unregulated and largely underground industry based in residential garages, basements and kitchens. Read the full report
But then Tveisme, whose melted skin hung from his hands like gloves, spotted his family sitting on the couch, watching TV. He couldn’t bear the thought of his two young sons seeing him burn alive so he bolted through the house and out the front door, collapsing in the yard. He rolled back and forth until the flames were out.
It was then that Tveisme had a sickening realization: He was alone.
He scrambled back to the garage, now engulfed in flames. His friend, Joseph Westom, lay on the concrete floor. Tveisme tried to carry him out but couldn’t. He grabbed Westom’s legs and dragged him into the yard.
Tveisme heard can after can of butane -- they’d picked up four cases at a convenience store to make hash oil that day -- detonating like bombs, rocking the usually quiet neighborhood. The heat melted an orange nail bucket from Home Depot. It blasted the blue and white webbing off the pair of folding chairs in the garage.
Westom was now alert and on his feet. The old friends limped to the other side of the street to wait for help, neighbors gathering to watch as a fireball consumed the garage of the tidy ranch house. His girlfriend, who had hustled the couple’s sons out of the house to protect them from seeing their burning father, waited at the home of a next-door neighbor.
“I’m burned real bad,” Westom told his friend.
"We’ll be OK,” Tveisme said.
The men were rushed to Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, home of the region’s only burn unit. Nearly two dozen nurses bustled around Tveisme’s charred body, carefully snipping away his blue jeans, the only thing that had protected his legs from burning.
Tveisme never saw his friend again.
Burned over 90 percent of his body, Westom, a bartender from Northeast Portland known by friends and family as a generous guy, died June 14, 18 days after the explosion. He was 35.
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Tveisme, 28, spent six weeks in a coma and underwent a dozen surgeries, all involving grafting healthy skin from his legs onto his arms and upper body.
He spent two months in the burn unit and another six weeks at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center. He had to learn to walk again. The area around his mouth burned; he underwent speech therapy to help him talk again. He couldn’t move his wrists. His right index finger was so badly burned that doctors amputated it. He continues to see a specialist to help move his hands.
His younger son, a toddler, was afraid of him when he first returned home.
“He was pretty scared for a long time,” he said.
On a recent spring afternoon, Tveisme sat in the living room of the home he shares with his longtime girlfriend and their boys to talk about what happened. Photos of the couple, taken before the blast, and their kids decorate the room. The skin on Tveisme’s arms, once sleeved in pirate tattoos, is now rippled and taut, the result of skin grafts. His face, too, is ruddy, the lower half hidden behind a bushy beard.
A soft-spoken man, Tveisme said he misses Westom, one of his best friends. He thinks of him whenever he steps into his garage, now so meticulously kept it’s hard to imagine the horror that unfolded there last spring.
Tveisme reluctantly agreed to talk with The Oregonian. He dreads subjecting himself to criticism and ridicule for something he continues to feel guilty about. But he believes it's important for people to understand the potential toll of making BHO.
His medical bills, covered by health insurance through his employer, amounted to $1.3 million. He never intended to put his family in harm’s way. He thought he was being careful when he turned on three fans to circulate the air in his enclosed garage.
Tveisme at the time was an Oregon medical marijuana cardholder – he cited severe pain as his qualifying condition -- and a daily pot consumer. Since the blast, he's left cannabis behind to focus on his recovery.
He realizes now that he didn't understand the risks involved in making BHO.
"All the things I watched on YouTube,” he said. “They never tell you it’s dangerous.”
“They are not going to get rid of the stuff,” he added. “But they need to figure out a better way to make it. It’s not worth it. Leave it to the professionals.”


"It seems like a relatively recent trend of people who have figured out how to turn a benign plant into an explosive."

See 2nd and 3rd degree burns below. One mistake one time and you can look like these burn patients.


http://www.google.com/search?q=2nd+...7Aqa_2QXS04CoDQ&ved=0CCcQsAQ&biw=1345&bih=841

Safety warning from Gray Wolf below, just these would cut down the explosions 95% or more. Most if not all explosions so far this year have been inside the home with tubes and none with closed systems.


http://skunkpharmresearch.com/butane-safety/

 

[hush]

“They are not going to get rid of the stuff,” he added. “But they need to figure out a better way to make it. It’s not worth it. Leave it to the professionals.”

This is truly a sad story.

The part I quoted above pretty much echoes the stance I have on the matter. Right or wrong, good or bad, up or down, this is a dangerous process to perform. It just is. Yes the probability of accidents is greatly reduced by doing it outside, but they never go away entirely, and there are examples right here in this very thread of outdoor extractions gone wrong. When unsuspecting neighbors are being injured or having their windows blown out, this is a public concern that people should take a stance on.

BHO should never be extracted in suburban neighborhoods, ever. Indoors or out. Apartment complexes, same thing. Inner city, absolutely not, you should be considered a terrorist. This is something that should only be done in a lab-style facility, or an industrial type scenario. If amateurs insist on doing it, the least they could do is drive a motorhome out to the desert and cook it up Walter White style? So no one innocent gets hurt?

There has to come a time when people band together and say, we don't want bho production to stop, we just don't want it being made by amateurs in residential areas anymore...

 

[gaiusmarius]

i have felt the same way many times reading through these stories, but in the end it would be sad to let a few idiots spoil it for everyone else. it's easy to just say lets ban it or what ever, but we at least, should know better. when has banning shit ever helped anything? all you do is create a black market and increase the value if you ban it.

 

[jump /injack]

http://www.oregonlive.com/marijuana/index.ssf/2014/05/butane_hash_oil_the_danger.html


Butane hash oil: A single spark can lead to an explosion during production


Medford found this pipe, which was used to make hash oil. The butane exploded when a heater in the home turned on. Seven people, including two children, escaped. Police said Clayton Morgan, 30, was making BHO in the bathtub when the blast occurred. Morgan and a woman in the house were burned in the blast, which caused extensive damage to the home. P
Hash is as old as marijuana cultivation itself and butane hash oil, too, has been around for a few years. But newer production methods that do a better job of stripping hash oil of residual solvent have made the product more popular, say BHO consumers.
The process for making BHO involves packing marijuana leaves and flowers into a tube, like a PVC pipe. Butane is then forced into the tube, which is outfitted with a filter on the bottom.
The liquid is captured in a container and exposed to heat, which helps burn off the butane. Some producers use a griddle or a double boiler. Some, particularly commercial producers of BHO, rely on a vacuum oven to rid the hash oil of solvent.
Full report
This article is part of The Oregonian's series about the growing demand for butane hash oil and how that market is met by an unregulated and largely underground industry based in residential garages, basements and kitchens. Read the full report
If the process takes place in an enclosed space, such as a garage, bathroom or kitchen, the butane can fill the room as it evaporates.
“If that were to, say, happen in a kitchen where there is a freezer or a stove with a pilot light, or a freezer when the compressor kicks on and it puts out a tiny spark, if your concentration of gas is high enough in the room – boom!” said Jess Ordower, 37, an owner of Udoxi Scientific, one of a handful of commercial BHO producers in the state.
“It blows the windows out,” he said. “It blows the doors out. You are going to end up hairless.”
The injuries from BHO-related explosions can be disfiguring. Recovery is grueling and typically takes weeks or months, said Dr. Nick Eshraghi, a surgeon and associate director of Legacy Emanuel Medical Center’s burn unit.
“All have caused major injuries,” he said of the BHO-fueled explosions. “You are talking about an entire room being engulfed in flames and one’s clothing catching on fire.”
Eshraghi and his colleagues noticed a trend in Oregon about a year ago, when young men, mostly in their 20s and 30s, started showing up at the hospital with severe burns to their upper bodies and hands.
BHO-related explosions aren’t tracked by state or local agencies in Oregon. At The Oregonian’s request, Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, home to the state’s only burn unit, combed through 16 months of patient records to determine how many people were treated for BHO-related burns. Of the 17 people burned in butane explosions, one or two involved southwest Washington residents. Some were injured in the same explosions. Others quietly sought treatment after getting burned while handling butane.

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Kevin Tveisme, 28, and Joseph Westom, 35, were making butane hash oil last year in the garage attached to the Tveisme's Gresham home when the furnace turned on and ignited an explosion. Tveisme was severely burned; Westom later died from his injuries. READ TVEISME'S STORY: Gresham explosion shatters lives, leaving 1 man dead
Beth Nakamura/The Oregonian
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However in Colorado, where recreational use of marijuana became legal this year, a federally funded regional drug enforcement agency has started tracking the explosions. The Rocky Mountain High Intensity Trafficking Area identified 31 of them since January. That’s up from 11 in all of 2013. And so far this year, 21 people have been injured, according to Kevin Wong, an agency analyst.
University of Colorado Hospital’s burn unit, which treats the most gravely injured BHO victims in the state, started tracking BHO-related injuries after seeing an uptick in blast patients last year, said Camy Boyle, an associate nurse manager at the facility. (Statistics on BHO blast victims treated by UW Medicine Regional Burn Center at Harborview in Seattle were not available.)
Boyle, who said the burn unit has treated 10 BHO blast victims so far this year, reported on the trend at the March meeting of the American Burn Association, the group representing medical providers who care for burn patients.
Doctors and nurses who treat BHO burn victims aren’t trying to make a political statement about marijuana or hash oil, she said.
“We just want it to be done safely,” Boyle said. “If you can go to a dispensary and buy hash oil, go to the dispensary and buy hash oil. You don’t need to go on YouTube and watch how it’s made and blow your house up.”
NEXT: "Public safety is focus of states' regulations"

"It seems like a relatively recent trend of people who have figured out how to turn a benign plant into an explosive."

2nd and 3rd degree burns below, take a look and see what one mistake can lead to, its not pretty.


http://www.google.com/search?q=2nd+...7Aqa_2QXS04CoDQ&ved=0CCcQsAQ&biw=1345&bih=841

Gray Wolf's basic protection procedures while around Butane, see below:


http://skunkpharmresearch.com/butane-safety/

 

[KGB47]

Buckets + bubble bags + ice = No explosions.

 

[jump /injack]

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-co...ont-man-arrested-2013-hash-lab-explosion-that

Fremont man arrested in 2013 hash lab explosion that injured girl

FREMONT -- A 20-year-old man is facing felony charges in a hash lab explosion that injured himself and a teenage girl last October.
Ryan Horrigan of Fremont was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of manufacturing illegal drugs and a probation violation more than seven months after the explosion took place at a house near Washington High School.
Horrigan and a teenage girl were hospitalized after they were burned in the Oct. 15 explosion, police spokeswoman Geneva Bosques said.
Fire crews responded about 5:55 p.m. to the home in the 4200 block of Canfield Drive, which police said is known to them for various drug use and probation violations, Bosques said. Within minutes, crews had knocked down the one-alarm fire, found burning in the laundry room of the home.
Police say Horrigan tried to extract hash oil using butane canisters in the closed room, which also houses a water heater. Authorities believe it was the flame from the water heater that ignited the butane gas, sparking the explosion.
Horrigan was taken to a trauma center with severe burns, and the teenage girl was taken to a hospital to be treated for minor burns, Bosque said.
Officers have spent the past several months investigating the case and recently secured a warrant for Horrigan's arrest. Officers located Horrigan at a home in the 6000 block of Joaquin Murrieta Avenue in Newark, where Bosques said Horrigan was taken into custody without incident.
Horrigan, being jailed on $100,000 bail, was set to appear in court to be arraigned on his charges on Monday.

"It seems like a relatively recent trend of people who have figured out how to turn a benign plant into an explosive."

2nd and 3rd Degree burn pictures below. If you're blasting inside take a look, this is in your future.


http://www.google.com/search?q=2nd+...7Aqa_2QXS04CoDQ&ved=0CCcQsAQ&biw=1345&bih=841

Safety Procedures by Gray Wolf.


http://skunkpharmresearch.com/butane-safety/

 

[jump /injack]

http://www.krextv.com/story/authorities-arrest-man-connected-to-monument-inn-explosion-20140513


Authorities Arrest Man Connected to Monument Inn Explosion


GRAND JUNCTION, Colo.- An arrest is made regarding the marijuana butane hash oil explosion at the Monument Inn last March.

Matthew Simms, 30, is facing several charges including manufacturing marijuana concentrate and reckless endangerment.

He was booked into the Mesa County Jail on May 11. 
** 
Simms is suspected of trying to manufacture marijuana concentrate in a hotel room at the Monument Inn using a process involving butane.
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The butane ignited, causing an explosion that burned Simms.
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"It seems like a relatively recent trend of people who have figured out how to turn a benign plant into an explosive."

Burns of a 2nd and 3rd Degree type associated with Butane type explosions below:

http://www.google.com/search?q=2nd+...7Aqa_2QXS04CoDQ&ved=0CCcQsAQ&biw=1345&bih=841

Gray Wolf's safety tip below.

http://skunkpharmresearch.com/butane-safety/

 

[Hashmasta-Kut]

i have felt the same way many times reading through these stories, but in the end it would be sad to let a few idiots spoil it for everyone else. it's easy to just say lets ban it or what ever, but we at least, should know better. when has banning shit ever helped anything? all you do is create a black market and increase the value if you ban it.

although i agree with you, i think the question of it being banned or not is moot, as marijuana and oil extraction by association is banned in most places already. but i dont see why people should hinder others in anything they might want to do, as long as it doesnt endanger/hurt others of course.

 

[hush]

but i dont see why people should hinder others in anything they might want to do, as long as it doesnt endanger/hurt others of course.

Therein lies the problem. The very process of manufacturing BHO (in residential areas) endangers others. I don't want my neighbors making pipe bombs or homemade fireworks in their back yards, just the same as I don't want them making BHO. There really needs to be a push to get people to stop doing it in residential areas. This is just my opinion, but it's based in reality, I like to think.

 

[Loc Dog]

There are different categories. Experts using closed loop, intermediate closed loop, novice closed loop, (I do not condone blasting) experienced blasters, intermediate, and novice.

In states like CA, OR, and CO, would like to see fire departments give seminars on safety.

ALWAYS OUTDOORS, AWAY FROM BUILDINGS!!!!

Test everything!!!! Before filling storage, pressurize, and make sure no leaks (spray seals with soapy water). Vacuum storage before filling. Only use 80% of volume (6x6) spool 900 grams. Also test recovery. Have only done once, but no leaks.

Also do not vape or smoke a bunch of oil, and extract, or drink. Like I said, I would like to see no more stupidity/life ruining.

I am disgusted by crack heads, but blasting is almost as stupid, unless extreme precautions. Do not mean to offend/preach, but maybe save one or two, considering doing it.

I researched since January, and only tried mid April (lil terp closed loop), when it could be done perfectly safe (only thing I could have done better was grounding strap, but humidity was high).

If you want to blast, just smoke more, or if in legal state buy it. There was recent post showing 2nd and 3rd degree burns. One step further search "tosh.0 burn victim". Most disturbing thing I have ever seen.

There should be PSA's on TV on west coast!!!! EC has not had the problem. Have not heard of one case, except that jumpinjack sent me.

Maybe that is EC problem H/OXY, and crackheads. Live in high income area (although broke) but kids are not on pot anymore, but crack heads and dying from heroine.

Don't want to sound like my parents in 1960's and 70's, but have seen people's lives destroyed from crack (lost million dollar company, burnt mansion down for insurance, got caught, and no payment, and the other went bankrupt with 250 grand in debt). Heroine/Oxy is worse yet.

Old saying "Common sense is not so common"!!!!!

 

[Loc Dog]

Thank You - To crooked8, jump/injack, and others, for saving lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jump /injack]

http://www.cbs12.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_15916.shtml

Suspect In West Boca Home Explosion Identified, Arrested


WEST BOCA RATOn, Fla. -- The West Boca man accused of causing a May 6 explosion that shot a freezer door through a kitchen wall and led police to a marijuana grow operation has been found, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

Follow up of previous story.

 

[jump /injack]

http://www.krdo.com/news/man-hurt-in-explosion-hash-oil-manufacturing-items-found/26011226


COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -
Colorado Springs Police are investigating an explosion that appears to have been the result of hash oil manufacturing.

The explosion happened Wednesday night (5/14/14) at an apartment in the 7700 block of Chanda Heights. The Colorado Springs Fire Department responded to an automatic alarm at the apartment around 10 p.m. Firefighters found one man who was hurt from the explosion. No fire was burning, but the sprinkler systems were functioning.
The man was taken to the hospital with minor injuries. The building was significantly damaged by the sprinklers.
Colorado Springs Police were also called to the apartment to investigate. They found items consistent with the manufacture of hash oil.
Police continue to investigate to determine whether charges will be filed.

"It seems like a relatively recent trend of people who have figured out how to turn a benign plant into an explosive."

Burns of a 2nd and 3rd Degree type associated with Butane type explosions below:

http://www.google.com/search?q=2nd+...7Aqa_2QXS04CoDQ&ved=0CCcQsAQ&biw=1345&bih=841

Gray Wolf's safety tips below.

http://skunkpharmresearch.com/butane-safety/

 

[jump /injack]

http://abc7.com/news/investigation-home-hash-oil-labs/60344/

There has been no explosions using a "closed system" for extractions that I know of yet. You should be outside with fans blowing the air/butane away from you, additional safety lessons/procedures are at Gray Wolf's sticky. One day in a burn ward will cost $6000 to $10,000 per day, that will buy a lot of closed systems and save you a lot of grief. Do not use Butane inside of a dwelling or near any habitation where their might be people or animals. A butane explosion will blow your face off, the fireball is over 3000 degree's; look at the burns and damage associated with a butane explosion.


Thursday, May 15, 2014
LOS ANGELES (KABC) --
"Breaking Bad" it's not. Legions of amateur chemists are cooking up a dangerous new high and sparking catastrophic explosions from Los Angeles to San Francisco and San Diego.

The "high" comes from a concentrated form of cannabis, or marijuana, that contains high levels of THC -- often from between 70 and 90 percent. The manufacturing process involves butane, a highly flammable, odorless gas commonly used as lighter fluid.

The end result is a highly-profitable drug known as butane hash oil, which can be ingested as an oil, consumed in edibles, or solidified to make concentrated forms of cannabis with names like wax, shatter and honeycomb. Marijuana dispensaries sell concentrated cannabis for about $45 a gram, but the price reaches even higher on the street, up to $100 a gram.

Twenty-three-year-old Colton Dorich was making butane hash oil in a motel room near Sea World in San Diego in January of 2013. He'd been at it for about six hours; he'd just finished the process of extracting the oil from the marijuana; butane gas was filling the room.

Colton lit what he planned to be a "victory cigarette" on his way out of the motel room. What happened next is seared into his memory.
"The whole room became a big fireball," Colton recalls. "As I hit the corner, the main explosion happened. The whole building shook, and all the windows on the second story blew out."

Colton stumbled into the first open door he could find, ran into the bathroom and turned on the shower to put the flames out. "I was on fire for, I think, about ten seconds," Colton told Eyewitness News. The room was on fire as well. Colton made his way downstairs. "I remember looking down at my hands and feet and my skin was in little curled pieces sticking up off my hands and I could see all the muscle underneath."

Colton was hospitalized with severe burns to his face, hands, feet and torso. Two other people at the motel that day were also injured. Three rooms were destroyed. Colton was put into an induced coma for a month.

Detective Frank Lyga, with the L.A. Impact narcotics task force, has investigated more than fifty hash oil labs around Los Angeles County. More than twenty of those labs exploded.

"Butane is a flammable gas, it's very volatile," says Detective Lyga. "Static electricity will set it off, cigarettes, light switches. It's a flash fire, a combustion fire where the flammable vapors ignite and expand at a high rate of speed."

Lyga has seen burn injuries that are almost too horrific for words. "All the skin was burned off and all of the tissue was charred to the bone, so the muscles were like a burned steak," Lyga recalls of one suspect burned in a hash oil explosion.

Money is the driving force. Unlike meth labs, so prevalent in the nineties, hash oil labs are easy and inexpensive to set up. They don't require much space, the necessary equipment can be purchased at any hardware store and how-to videos for wannabe chemists are easy to find on YouTube. Neighbors aren't likely to notice anything amiss, until the lab blows up.

"It endangers not only the individuals manufacturing it, but endangers the neighborhood because it blows the house up. We haven't had an innocent victim hurt yet, but it's only a matter of time," says Lyga who investigated a lab in Sylmar last year that blew up while seven children were in the house. The children got out unharmed.
Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Ashley Rosen is assigned to the Major Narcotics Division. Prosecuting suspects connected to butane hash oil labs has become her focus in the last year and a half as the explosions become more widespread.


"The sentencing range is 3 years, 5 years or 7 years," says Rosen who often has to wait to see if a suspect survives before she can take the case to trial.
"I think severe is a good way to describe the injuries. They range anywhere from 10% to 90% of the body being burned, anywhere from 1st degree burns to 3rd degree burns and other associated injuries. Shrapnel, smoke inhalation, we've had people in induced comas to facilitate treatment," says Rosen who adds that one suspect lost his leg.

Many of those injured spend months undergoing painful skin grafts and extensive reconstructive surgeries. The Grossman Burn Center in West Hills has treated more than a dozen butane hash oil makers with critical burns.

"Anyone can go on YouTube right now and anyone can be a manufacturer. The problem is people don't realize the potential devastating, life-long effects of an explosion like this," says Dr. Peter Grossman. "There's a blast effect, just like with a bomb. And sometimes with that you get other internal organ damage, brain injury, internal gastrointestinal injury from the concussive blast effect of the explosion."

Colton Dorich, the now-convicted hash oil maker in San Diego, is living proof. Raised, red scars riddle his hands and feet; his face is a patchwork of damaged skin.

"I remember looking in the mirror, that my entire face was scabs," says Colton who agreed to our interview in hopes of dissuading other would-be chemists. Colton spent months in the hospital before pleading guilty to the criminal charges against him. He was sentenced to two years in custody, plus three years of mandatory supervision by the Department of Probation.

"What you're doing is building a bomb in a room that is filled with butane gas," says San Diego Deputy District Attorney David Williams who prosecuted Colton's case.
"This is not somebody growing a plant in their backyard that they're using for medicinal purposes. These labs are dangerous, they're explosive and they absolutely endanger the community at large," says Williams.

Colton Dorich agrees. "Realistically, what I've done very well could have killed any number of people, or you know, brought them very close to death like I was. And that's the worst part of all this to me, that I endangered the lives of others."

Colton says a love of chemistry is what sparked his initial interest in manufacturing butane hash oil. He hopes to build on his knowledge and put it to good use once he's served his time in jail.

"I'd like to study chemistry in college and make a career out of it, so I can do something helpful for society, rather than helpful to me," says Colton.



"It seems like a relatively recent trend of people who have figured out how to turn a benign plant into an explosive."

Burns of a 2nd and 3rd Degree type associated with Butane type explosions below:

http://www.google.com/search?q=2nd+...7Aqa_2QXS04CoDQ&ved=0CCcQsAQ&biw=1345&bih=841

Gray Wolf's safety tips below.
http://skunkpharmresearch.com/butane-safety/

 

[Daub Marley]

People know that is it flammable and explosive so why do they do it indoors or around a potential spark? I believe this is due to a misconception about the concentration required in the air. Butane is colorless meaning it cannot be seen in gaseous form so let me attempt to explain how much is released in the air. When one can of butane is released it takes the space of roughly 220 cans of butane!
When you add the fact that it only needs a concentration of only roughly 20% would mean one can has the potential to fill 1100 cans of space with potentially explosive gas. When you think that you have enough room you don't, because it pools on the floor, so you'll never be able to lower the concentration to a safe level. Don't even think about spraying indoors in any circumstance!