Colorado AG: Home hash oil production is illegal

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Colorado AG: Home hash oil production is illegal

AP foreign, Tuesday December 30 2014

DENVER (AP) — Colorado's top law enforcement official says manufacturing high-potency marijuana oil is not legal under the state's first-in-the-nation recreational marijuana law.

State Attorney General John Suthers wrote in a court brief Tuesday that the law prohibits the dangerous production of hash oil, which has caused a number of fiery explosions and injuries this year as pot users try to make it at home. Some prosecutors have been charging individual hash-oil creators with felonies, while others have not pursued criminal charges at all.

Suthers filed a brief in response to a western Colorado man's contention that Mesa County prosecutors improperly charged him with a crime for manufacturing hash oil. An attorney for Eugene Christenson argued in a court filing that the substance is legal under Amendment 64, which legalized marijuana.

Suthers says it's a safety issue.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/feedarticle/11712058

[Stryst]

1. This, to me, seems like the laws against home distilling.

The precursor is legal, the product is legal, it's just illegal for you to cut out the middle man.

Having said that, I don't entirely disagree with the idea of not letting some people work with large quantities of flammable solvents. SWIM did once see their brother "cooking off" acetone hash by lighting the pyrex dish on fire, smothering it with a cookie sheet and relighting it over and over. And with all the craze over dabbing, people are going to hurt themselves trying to make butane hash. Frost burn, fire, explosions... these things set the legalization movement back.