#MARIJUANA SHATTER DRIVER#

“As long as people are educated about the proper dosage,” said Morgan Fox of the Marijuana Policy Project, “it hasn’t presented any problem.” He likened the difference between shatter and regular marijuana to the difference between whiskey and beer. He said Monday’s seizure was the largest amount they had found so far.Īlthough the high potency of shatter is troubling to parents and law enforcement officials, marijuana advocates point out that no one has died from ingesting marijuana. Troxell did not know where the shipment originated.

#MARIJUANA SHATTER DRIVER#

The driver was arrested near the Dulles Greenway and Old Ox Road. He said a national cargo transportation company was used to transport the marijuana to Loudoun, and then it was picked up by a driver in a rented truck. Kraig Troxell, a Loudoun sheriff’s spokesman, said his department started seeing marijuana wax about a year ago. It is produced as a thin, hard translucent layer similar to glass, which can shatter if dropped, and it is typically heated and inhaled through a vaporizer rather than smoked. That is about five times the potency of unrefined smoked cannabis and more powerful than standard hash oil. But some forms of shatter reportedly have as much as 90 percent THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. Shatter is a form of marijuana wax, derived from butane hash oil, which has been made for centuries.

Black-market shatter probably would cost much more.

Shatter, which is sold by the gram because of its potency, retails for about $60 a gram in Colorado, so 10 pounds of shatter would be worth nearly $270,000 - in a state where it is legal. Included in that load was 15 pounds of shatter, in total packaged weight. On Monday, Loudoun County sheriff’s deputies intercepted a truck that had about $900,000 worth of packaged marijuana near Dulles International Airport. Shatter, a cannabis extract with about 80 percent THC content, is legal for recreational use in states such as Colorado and Washington, sold in medical marijuana dispensaries in other states and is faster-acting and far more easily concealed than marijuana. As marijuana extracts expand their presence on the East Coast, an especially potent concentrate is appearing on law enforcement radar.

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