The report estimates that:. Suffice it to say that marijuana use is not uncommon, and over the past five years, a powerful form of marijuana extract — Butane Hash Oil BHO — has become one of the go-to ways of getting high. BHO is the most potent form of marijuana available, legally or illegally. In a hearing before the U. Highly flammable butane gas is used to extract the THC from the marijuana leaf, and has resulted in home explosions, injury, and deaths. Think of it this way: wax is to weed as crack is to cocaine and freebasing is to heroin.
And like crack and freebasing, wax is more addictive and more harmful to your overall health than typical marijuana.
Depending on who you ask, BHO may be called any of the following:. A silicone baking sheet is the perfect surface to work on, in order to deal with the stickiness. Forgo the grinder and use a small, sharp pair of scissors to parcel out your dose. Moon rocks make great gifts as well, for yourself and others. Cannabuzz May 17, Support The Portland Mercury If you're a fan of smart, local, progressive journalism that makes a real difference in Portland, please support the Mercury with a recurring monthly contribution.
We can't do it without you! Thanks, you're the best. If you enjoy articles like this, please help the Mercury continue our mission of providing up-to-the-minute information, progressive journalism, and fun things to do in Portland by making a small recurring monthly contribution. Never forget: Your help is essential and very much appreciated! You can pour it out and use some warm water, but no warmer than bath water. Too hot, and you will cook off the flavorful terpenes. You will see some material in your tane that looks like a sea sponge.
It is frozen moisture that was pulled out of your plant material. You can scoop it out with a fork, or leave it. If you leave it, you might risk trapping some moisture into the shatter, and it will pop and crackle on a hot nail. I rarely pull it out, unless it is excessive. Keep watching it. The tane will slowly evaporate off. Here is where it is critical, NOT to use hot water. You can instantly ruin your oil. When it is almost done, I only use room temperature water. For the record, we are going into the house and getting warm water, and taking it outside.
We are NOT using any kind of electric warming devices in the butane area. Am I clear enough on this? Do not pop bubbles, do not swirl your oil around. Move it as little as possible. Any stirring and your shatter will not look clear at the end, and it will be more difficult to purge all the butane out of the oil.
Now, we transfer our PTFE to our vac. If you lift of the PTFE out of your container, and the product is runny and about to spill out, then it is too thin. You need to wait longer. The oil should be the consistency of maple syrup. There is no penalty for letting it sit a few extra minutes.
The vac chamber should be in the skillet, which is filled with water. It is best to space the bottom of the chamber off the skillet, to heat the chamber more evenly.
By doing this, you are creating more of an OVEN. Heat your water to Put the lid on your chamber so it starts to warm up like an oven inside. Watch the temp closely. Start low and turn the dial up a hair at a time, until you reach the right temp.
Pulling the first vacuum. Lots can go wrong here, so pay attention. Your chamber should have a valve between the chamber and the vac. And another valve to let air INTO the chamber. You will use the air valve to control the pressure in the vac. Use the pump valve to hold the pressure in the vac when the pump is off.
CAUTION, if the vac is under pressure and you turn off the pump with the pump valve open, your chamber will suck air from the pump line, and could pull in lubrication from the pump and completely ruin your shatter. With the lid on, turn on the pump and watch the oil.
It will start to puff up like a big muffin. The goal is to get the muffin as big as possible, without it touching the side of the chamber. By making a big muffin, we are expanding the oil and allowing air to get to most of it, thereby evaporating any butane left in the oil. Watch it closely and use your air valve to control your muff.
It may expand rapidly, so be prepared. Keep the vac on for about 15 minutes, or until the muffin drops. The better quality oil you have, and the more vac you have, the longer the muffin will stay puffed up. Usually, the muffin will stop expanding after about 15 minutes and then you can fully close the air valve and take it to full vac.
The first flip: The first flip is the most difficult. Slowly let the air in to the chamber to equalize the pressure. Then pull the PTFE out. Fold the outer edges of the PTFE on to the shatter the pull it back again in order to get the small amounts of shatter on the outer edges off the PTFE. Do this all the way around so you have a piece that will fit inside your chamber. Now lay it on top of a piece of parchment paper, and peel it off.
The first time you do this, you may have some trouble. Take it to a full vac. Run the vac for about 5 minutes every couple hours, or whatever it takes to keep a full vac. Flip it every hours for hours. Each time you flip it and vac it, you are exposing more oil to air, getting out all the butane. This will make the shatter a little more gooey and you will then get more bubbles.
Now, leave it in the chamber, and turn the heat up to 95 for about 10 minutes, then take it out. Butane stays in liquid form better if you can keep it cold. A nice golden patty, right after flip.
Air bubbles are air bubbles, not butane bubbles. Follow the same procedure but turn the heat up to at the end, until it looks like this.
Clean, baby, clean! I do it a little different. I pack myh tube. I then close it up attached the vacuum hose to the bottom let the vacuum run till complet vacumm is drawn. I put my butane in the top open the valve and shoot the tane to it till it is pressurized. Close the top valve.
Flip it end for end a few time. Let it rest for 5 to 10 min. Then slowly open bottom valve let it drain into the PTFT shoot one more can though while both valves are open. Takes about 4 cans.
From that point everything is the same as you. Always comes out nice. After years of practicing I pretty much found that same process myself. Great article!!! Dabs great with full flavor and medicates very well.
Great article thanks. One question though. What kind of temp are you looking for in the oil in the chamber? Wanted to say thanks for the spot on instructions!
I followed these instructions and got perfect results. Thanks again. New to this n am going to try very soon. So for shatter while purging its best to keep it at 90 degrees??
Great walkthrough. Have made extracts for 5 yrs and wish i woulda found this post 5 yrs sooner. Every1 thinks deg. But i 2 have found makes nice hard stable shatter. This is easy simple not to over the top any1 starting should read this. Keep dabing safely guys! I want to get more tane through my material but also want it to soak then spray. Any help or clarification would be kindly appreciated!!! Capn, I have been using the method described in this post for a few months now and have been getting incredible results until now and I am wondering if you have an idea of what went wrong.
I have been blasting a mixture of og kush and cheese and it has always turned out exactly the same until this run, a beautiful yellow and very stable. For starters, this run did not want to let the butane in yet it was not over packed. After finally getting through the extraction, the patty did not get nearly as big of puffing effect, and stopped showing any reaction after only a few hours. Yet, it is still very gooey and unstable.
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