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Marijuana extract, 'budder', new to Prince Edward Island

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 05/07/2015 - 08:29

When the RCMP searched a Charlottetown home last month they found a drug that’s new to P.E.I. It’s called budder and is a concentrated form of cannabis resin.

RCMP Const. Scott Mintie said it’s something the police are starting to hear about in P.E.I.

“It’s a concern, just because of the potency of it,” he said.

Budder is produced by grinding marijuana and extracting tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) from it using a solvent. The finished product is a brown paste.

The RCMP estimate the street value of dry marijuana at around $10-$15 for one gram while budder would sell for about $80-$100 per gram.

Mintie said there are also safety concerns about the use of solvents to make budder.

“As everybody knows the solvent’s explosive so if you’re doing this in a confined area and there’s a spark or somebody smoking a cigarette there is the potential there could be an explosion,...

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