Explosion victim was making hash oil

A Lower Sackville, N.S., man who was badly injured in a house explosion Saturday remains in critical condition at a Halifax hospital.

Police were called after neighbours reported seeing a man in his underpants on fire on Margaret Street off Sackville Drive.

Halifax RCMP said the man had a licence for medical marijuana. He was mixing isopropyl alcohol with cannabis to make hash oil in his basement, police said.

Staff Sgt. Bruce Webb said the man was using a rice cooker when the mixture overheated, exploded and set the man on fire.

"What the gentleman was doing was very, very dangerous. He will be scarred for life with his burns. There is extensive fire, smoke and water damage to his home," Webb said. "It's just a terrible tragedy for an event that was highly illegal."

The man is being treated in the burn unit at the Queen Elizabeth II hospital.

While the man has a licence to possess medical marijuana, it remains illegal for anyone to make hash or hash oil.

Webb said police will monitor the man's condition before they make a decision about laying drug charges.

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Thats a real shame. I hope he's ok.

Heating flammable solvents in a closed basement? In his underwear?

Pity.

You folks who think that a crock pot is safe be careful. Most of them have bimetallic thermostats in them. That means that when the cock pot applies heat, then it sparks. That means that when it turns of the heat it sparks. If a flamable vapor is formed near those contacts, then things get out of control in the blink of an eye.

When heating solvents one has to be sure that all sources of spark and flame have been considered including light switches, pulling plugs on equipment, etc. Some old buzzers and bells generate sparks.

This is assuming that you already have excellent ventilation in the area.

I don't want to become the guy running down the street with my BVD's or hair on fire....

Needless to say it was pretty dumb of him to do as he did.
Sometimes I warm up solvents to increase solvability; Very gently on my enclosed gas heater, with a towel between the heater and the solvent jar to disperse heat.
I would never heat up solvents significantly; I'll just use more solvent.

I'm guessing that legal restrictions keep THC levels in medicinal Marijuana so low, that in order for medicinal effects to be significant enough you'll need a concentrated extract of it.

Who the hell does stupid stuff like this?
Heating solvents in a crockpot is no way better, i'm shocked that this is even considered to be a legitimate practice! Always use a warm waterbath to heat solvents gently and no open flames/fire etc whatsoever

"It's just a terrible tragedy for an event that was highly illegal."

Gotta love that wording. Makes it seem like the "high illegality" and "terrible tragedy" are really one thing, when it's more like "illegal" on one side, and "stupid and tragic" on the other. Ah, but I can't blame him unless I know him. He could just be conditioned, and isn't trying to manipulate. Why oh why is society so ridiculously structured? Must everyone require human sacrifices for our egos to be at rest? Perhaps it's that society causes our egos never to BE at rest.

Well, like the healer shamans of the Amazon, we, who know we can see the cycle and the nature of things (but never all cycles and all natures), must shun any notions of using it for self-gain, and inspire others to do the same, show them that thus we can be at peace.