article_snippet.sent: The proposals came after an increase in home fires and blasts linked to homemade hash oil.
article_snippet.sent: People make hash oil at home for the same reasons People make beer, wine or booze — to save money, make it to personal taste, or as a hobby.
article_snippet.sent: Though there are safer methods, such as soaking marijuana in a vegetable-based glycerin, one common practice is to force a solvent such as butane or propane gas or liquid through leafy cannabis, a process that separates its psychoactive material from buds, leaves and stems.
article_snippet.sent: After the extraction, the hash-maker then releases the gas or boils off the liquid, leaving behind marijuana's psychoactive material in a potent goop.
article_snippet.sent: The resulting product — called hash oil or shatter or wax in even more concentrated form
article_snippet.sent: — can be used in vaporizers or added to foods without the grassy taste raw pot imparts.
article_snippet.sent: Safer methods would be OK, and adults would be allowed to use cooking oil, butter or similar substances to make edibles.
article_snippet.sent: some marijuana activists compare the hash explosions to fires caused by turkey fryers and call turkey fryers a problem with a new product that is best addressed by consumer education. '
highlights_snippet.sent: People make hash oil at home to save money, make it to personal taste, or as a hobby .