Dabless in Seattle?

You have got to love the Seinfeld reference, but this really isn’t funny. I must admit the suspense is killing me. It would appear that bad news is coming, but it’s just how bad that worries me.

Legal weed is officially here in Washington and the coverage I am reading says up to 1/4 ounce of hash will eventually be permitted. No, I am not even close to getting my hopes up that it will include BHO, but it is a damn sight better than the original draft which stated that concentrates had to be infused in food. Of course, what I am wondering is the same thing you are — what EXACTLY is going to be in, and what is going to be out? Concentrates come in a lot of shapes and sizes these days; they also sport a plethora of options for consumption.

My hope is that 7 grams of hash also includes 7 grams of errl, if I want it. Just like there are hard booze options, there’s hard dank options. It would mean that we learned something from Colorado. We all know where most BHO comes from and what happens when you screw up. I don’t understand why the state would immediately drive up street production and value on something they knew wasn’t going away. Moreover, what about me specifically? I’ve never purchased a dab illicitly and quite frankly, I couldn’t imagine buying one that wasn’t tested. Again, I really hope we learned from Colorado here. To my knowledge they have retained and regulated the good, bad and ugly of shatter.

That’s not tobacco.

My fear is that just like Seattle dispensaries were too good to be true in current form, so is the plight of FULL MELT concentrates everywhere. It’s the torch and nail whose days are numbered. Call me a cynic, but I think they’ll succeed where the Feds think Colorado failed. Yeh, they will let us have pressed hashes and kiefs, I bet even Rick Simpson, but they’re done with dabs. After all, the Feds are in the active process of reclassifying them altogether anyway. As disappointing as it would be, the most likely outcome would be the art of dabbing becoming the outlaw.

My guess is that some sort of grey area clusterfuck is where we will end up. For instance, concentrates out of vape pens don’t seem to be upsetting anyone. Though pens use concentrates in all forms, CO2 extractions are the most common ammo. BHO extractions being made illegal and CO2 staying cool could work. Anything pennable is nailable after all, and it doesn’t seem likely that equipment would be subject to ban — it never has been in the past.

Further complicating the argument and potentially really saving our asses would be ice wax. Ice wax is hash, period. It’s just really, really kick ass hash, which is why it completely melts away on a nail. Speaking of nails, the e-nail complicates all of this. If you take a dab of ice wax off an e-nail, not only have you averted butane altogether, you’ve avoided the torch too. Now we’re getting somewhere!

So as it were, we now have two dabbable options that are not BHO, nor are they as strong as BHO. This could have bottom line written all over it. A ban on BHO extracts would blow, but it seems sensible and like something that Colorado would implement as well, no matter how well BHO was doing there. My conclusion is that I get to dab something, but it ain’t nug run errl shatter. Like I said, I don’t know but I gotta know!! I just wanted to share my $0.02.