Concentrated THC Products (also known as hash oil, dabs, wax, earwax, honey, honey oil, resin, or shatter) are a product created by extracting THC from the cannabis plant.
- This product may contain up to 90 percent THC and is consumed by smoking, vaporizing, dabbing, or adding to food.
- Consuming this highly concentrated form of THC increases the risk of an unpredictable high and negative physical and emotional reactions.
- Since dabbing only recently became relatively common, there’s limited information on long-term health effects.
- Using high THC products may cause psychosis — seeing or hearing things that aren't real.
- Youth who use cannabis with high THC concentrations are more likely to continue using cannabis and to develop future mental health problems.
- Making hash oil using flammable liquids is extremely dangerous and illegal. It has resulted in explosions, severe burns, and death. There are safer ways to make hash oil.
- If you are of legal age and choose to use hash oil, we recommend buying it from a licensed cannabis retail store.
All information on the health effects of cannabis is taken from the Retail Marijuana Public Health Advisory Committee’s systematic review of available, high-quality research.
- Literature Review. (Monitoring Health Effects Related to Colorado website)