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Just the other day I smoked a joint and was eating my breakfast and reading the newspaper to find this on the front page of the seattle times. Haha looks like bho will be sold by the state no mater how sketchy some people make it out to be.
Jim Wilkinson inhales cannabis concentrate at last month’s Concentrates Cup in Black Diamond.
Aurelio Romero Jr. uses a metal rod to apply a dab of hash oil to part of a bong that’s been turned red-hot by a blowtorch.
Romero, 31, inhales a cloud of superpotent vapor that fills the pipe.
“It only takes a dab the size of a rice grain to have the same effect as smoking two or three bowls” of dried marijuana, Romero explained at last month’s Concentrates Cup, a hash-oil seminar and competition in Black Diamond.
The increasingly popular practice is called dabbing. “This is America’s insanely baked future,” Rolling Stone declared in its recent Weed Issue.
It’s not what state officials envisioned when they set out to write rules for Washington’s new recreational marijuana system. And they’re still trying to figure out how to regulate the sale of concentrates, potent marijuana extracts such as hash oil.
The state’s new pot law unintentionally defined sellable marijuana in a way that excluded this use of concentrates and extracts. Initially, state regulators believed they would only be infused in edible or liquid products, and that they couldn’t allow the stand-alone sale of concentrates.
After much feedback, regulators did an about-face.
They were persuaded that banning concentrates would hand the black market a lucrative product that is potentially risky to make and consume. Better to bring concentrates under state rules and safety standards, said Randy Simmons, the state’s marijuana project director.