Butane and Buds Don't Mix

Pot-pipe explosion sends Sacramento man to hospital

Posted by Bill Enfield
7:09 PM
July 22, 2009

From Nicole Williams:

A Sacramento man suffered second-degree burns on half of his body after
an explosion erupted when he attempted to light a marijuana pipe in his
bathroom earlier today, fire officials said.

The man, who is in his earlier 30s and a medical marijuana patient, had
mixed butane with his pot and the chemical is likely the cause of the
explosion, which knocked the bathroom wall off its foundation, said Jim
Doucette, spokesman for the Sacramento Fire Department.

"It's not for sure that's what happened ... but whatever he was doing
went wrong," Doucette said.

A second-level hazmat alarm was called because the Fire Department was
initially unaware of the source of the blast, he said.

No one else was in the house at the time of the explosion, and the man
was transported to a nearby hospital but is expected to recover,
Doucette said.