'Butane Hash Oil' found in Ibiza: Five times stronger than 'traditional' marijuana and 'lethal' to produce
Wednesday, September 6, 2017 @ 11:57 AM
A HAUL of frozen cannabis oil uncovered in Ibiza has sparked public concern after police confirmed the substance is highly dangerous and far stronger than the type of marijuana smoked in joints.
The Guardia Civil found 28 kilos of hash oil in a warehouse on an industrial estate, together with 1,300 cannabis plants which had music played to them to help them grow.
Butane Hash Oil (BHO) has never yet been seen in Spain, let alone on the scale it was being produced at in Ibiza, says the Organised Crime Unit (UCO).
To extract oil from the plant, the process involves the use of highly-flammable gas in such huge quantities that just one spark could have caused an explosion that would have wiped out several blocks.
This information was supplied some time ago by the USA's drug squad, the DEA, after they uncovered a BHO laboratory with enough butane gas in it to blow up an entire street.
Although this is the first production site found in Spain, a 36-year-old man from Murcia was found to have been extracting hash oil a month ago.
He accidentally caused a gas blast, suffering fatal burns.
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