He stirred and heated it for hours, while butane slowly evaporated out of the solution to leave the purified, nonexplosive wax.
The butane - better known as lighter fluid - bonded with the resin glands in the marijuana, and the solution poured into a Pyrex baking dish placed in a larger dish of nearly boiling water. He put vinyl mesh over one end and sprayed a high-pressure canister of liquid butane in the other end. The Redondo chef, who asked to withhold his name because making this type of hash is a felony, started by packing a glass pipe with discarded marijuana trimmings. Officials suspect that the overall numbers are much higher because victims don’t disclose the illicit cause of their injuries. In Northern California, the UC Davis Health System’s burn unit treated 27 victims last year with similar injuries, and six have come in during the last two weeks. In the last 14 months, at least 17 cooks and bystanders have landed in Southern California burn centers with catastrophic injuries, a toll far worse than from meth lab explosions.
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