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, ...

Opponents of marijuana legalization are concerned if Ballot Measure 2 passes, Alaskans would see an increase in butane hash oil, and with that, an increase in explosions in its production, although ...

A 51-year-old Marcola man is facing criminal charges for operating an illegal butane hash oil extraction lab at his home in the 95100 block of Hazel Lane. Detectives and deputies served a search ...

Christopher Ellett had been making butane hash oil for over a year, his mother told investigators, before his alleged illegal hobby exploded in his face last week, court records show. Ellett, 32, was ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 41-year-old man arrested in a butane hash oil lab explosion reportedly told authorities his refrigerator exploded because someone had put a stick of dynamite inside, according to the Pueblo County ...

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 ...

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