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Marijuana 'Dabbing' Is 'Exploding onto the Drug-Use Scene'

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 06/15/2015 - 08:38

Young people who use marijuana and are looking for a new way to get high may be increasingly turning to "dabbing," a new paper suggests.  

Dabbing is inhaling the vapors from a concentrated form of marijuana made by an extraction method that uses butane gas. Dabs, also known as butane hash oil (BHO) — which are sometimes called "budder," "honeycomb" or "earwax" — are more potent than conventional forms of marijuana because they have much higher concentrations of the psychoactive chemical tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, than is found in regular cannabis, according to the paper.

"We have been seeing an emergence of dabs over the last three years," said John Stogner, co-author of the new paper and an assistant professor of criminal justice and criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. "It is really exploding onto the drug-use scene."

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