Kelly O
GRAMS OF HASH OIL Imagine about 120 times this amount.
The same as a six-pack—more than four pounds.
For oil makers, the hardest part would be finding all those leaf trimmings. Hash oil is most commonly made these days by packing pot into a tube and running a solvent like butane through the material to extract the oils, resins, and waxes. The concentrate is smoked, vaporized, or used as an ingredient in other products.
What if an eccentric wealthy visitor—the Russian mogul, the Saudi prince, the Snoop Lion—wanted to seriously maximize their legal stash?
"It'd be really hard for someone to touch down and find a pound," says Nolan Foster of Seattle's Best Cannabis and Concentrates, perhaps the most prolific oil distributor in town for medical-marijuana patients. No medical co-ops stock such quantities.
Our sources say hash oil retails for around $50 per gram in Seattle, with wholesale rates of $20 to $30 per gram. The pound rate—if it exists—would be $9,000 wholesale or more. If one could source 72 ounces of liquid hash oil, it would carry a $40,000 price tag