Shatter

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Pot smokers looking for a heavier-hitting high are turning to “Shatter”, a weed concentrate that packs up to 80% cannabinoid content. Drug officials aren’t sure how to deal with the drug, a smooth, glassy substance that’s significantly more potent when smoked but is still, ultimately a marijuana derivative and thus not particularly unsafe.

Shatter is just one form of dabs, the catch-all term for marijuana concentrates produced by extracting cannabinoids like THC and CBD, the plant’s psychoactive chemicals. Other well-known forms include “budder”, which has a creamier, wax-like consistency, and oils which are golden and honey-like. For all dabs, extraction involves running a solvent – usually butane, carbon dioxide, or propane through marijuana buds to pull out the cannabinoids, then evaporating the solvent and gathering the resins left behind.

The term “shatter” is derived from the fact that the leftover resin is often cooled into glassy sheet, similar to boiled caramel hardening into candy. When dropped, the sheet surprise shatters.

Of all concentrates, shatter is the most potent – it goes through an additional filtration process to get rid of other naturally occurring fats and waxes – which is how it manages to pack its active ingredients in crazy high amounts (regular weed, when smoked, only has about 5-18 percent cannabinoid content). While this extra step optimizes purity, it also filters out the dank hydrocarbons known as terpenes, which make up marijuana’s flavor and scent.