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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Portland Fire & Rescue investigators said a man was creating hash oil in his home when the butane he was using combusted and caused a fire in his home. Christopher Ellett was ...