California Wants to Make Dabs, All BHO Marijuana Concentrates Illegal

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As we’ve previously noted, “Dab Madness” has replaced “Reefer Madness to fullest extent. Unfortunately, “Dab Madness” now makes it way from media hysteria into the hands of government officials in California looking to modify its state’s medical marijuana legislation.

The new, proposed bill in California–Senate BIll 1262 sponsored by Senator Lou Correa–seeks to finally achieve the “regulation of physicians, dispensaries, and cultivation sites.” The bill, in essence, seeks to unify California’s medical marijuana industry by actually making sure facilities from grows to dispensaries have licenses.

And then there’s the added dab provision, which is completely over the top and would destroy the main form of medicine for many California patients: Butane Hash Oil.

“Under no circumstances shall a physician and surgeon recommend butane hash oil. Physicians may not recommend high concentrate derivatives such as Butane Hash Oil (a chemical derivative of marijuana that can contain 80% THC) to anyone.”

Oddly enough, CO2 extracts (and full-melts and ice wax) would remain legal for sale in California. That decision is an admission that extracts have extreme medical value and that the state fears Butane, for reasons that may or may not be justified (see: home explosions).

Government relations manger John Lovell told the LAWeekly this:

There’s no medicinal value to a high-THC concentrates like butane hash oil, and we don’t believe it’s part of the array of legitimate medical marijuana. It didn’t even exist as a product in 1996, and it’s not appropriate to be included in what voters thought they were voting on with Proposition 215 in 1996.

I’ve seen and heard first hand patients with severe neuro muscular diseases tell me that Dabs completely changed their ability to cope with life. Some people that could barely walk or speak before they found dabs now can live decent lives–and it’s cause of the THC. For these types of patients, CBD is irrelevant.

So, in a word: this provision would cause a rebellion amongst California’s dabbers–of which there are many. Even if this bill comes to fruition, don’t expect LA’s pot shops to stop selling BHO, or the state’s top extract artists to stop making them: we stand by our medicine.

It’s all good though–because like most marijuana related proposals in California, this bill will likely die a very quiet death.

You can read more about the Dab Madness bill at LAWeekly and view the whole proposed bill right here.