NEWSOM BANS BUTANE TO CURB HASH OIL EXPLOSIONS

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As a state we are struggling with amateur cooks creating explosions while trying to extract hash oil. Gov. Newsom (D) signed a ban on buying large quantities of the volatile solvent butane.Cannabis Now

• The D.E.A. says approximately 19 people have been killed and 126 injured in hash-oil fires since 2014. In San Diego one such explosion sent a man 

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