Ahhh, the years-old question of the legality of making butane hash oil. When the mainstream media exploded with stories of backyard or basement chemists blowing up their homes in Colorado making BHO using poor techniques, it seemed to become common knowledge overnight that to produce or even to possess any amount of hash produced with butane was a felony.

However, this raises dozens of questions: how would a police officer or a court of law know whether the hash was made with butane or CO2? Or whether it was rosin? Ideally, all extracts should be free of solvent anyway, so how is one to know? Does this mean that all extract is illegal? Does that include edibles? Edibles are technically made with a cooking oil “concentrate.” Does that mean my brownies are a felony?