well i just made the move from dry herb of 13 years to dab. after i bought my rig and my buddy dropped off the product, it made me think. I was able to get 'hash oil' 3 years ago before there was all of this fancy equipment to smoke it with. bought it on aluminum foil and you had to freeze it off into a bowl and it just made it messy to smoke. I gave up on it. Now i sit here 3 years later and wow its huge now... it is also now purged properly into 'glass shards...' the first time i heard this type of talk (fairly recently) between a couple buddies talking about how they made the 'best shards around' and i instantly thought they went walter white on me... Well now ive fallen into the dab realm and will NOT look back (what a saver).... did anyone else encounter BHO before it was popular and think, "WTF?"
Haha, the first time I saw someone use butane to make oil I thought he was crazy but one hit of that shit and I never smoked ISO oil again.
never heard of it referred to as "shards". i too know it as having something to do with super meth. blech.... i was smoking hash oil in eugene oregon in 94 or 95 maybe? that was the first time i had seen anything like it. it too was nasty to work with. you had to use a paper clip and use it to get a glob of the oil. then use a lighter to heat the paper clip enough to drip the oil in the doobie you were going to roll. it came in a little dark colored glass vial, the kind usually used in the storage of certain powdery unmentionables. it would slowly start leaking out of the vial and go every where. the oil i was getting was dark amber and had a super citrus smell to it. we got it from the same person every time. i don't know what the process was back then but it worked and was super fucking potent. just like with BHO we get today, it turned a doobie into one smoky little bastard and you could easily get 6 people fucking super baked. also, that oil was super fucking goopy when you smoked it. it made the doobie drip all over as you got down to the half way point of it. the oils we get to day are definitely superior to what i was getting back in the day.
yes this is how i remember it too. and it was super expensive to get this super gooey mess. i saw a friend put a goop in his coffee years ago.
Back in the late 90s early thousands we used to get stuff like ajroxit described. Every once in a while we would get good stuff we would call "honey oil" because it was golden like honey. Thinking back man did we waste a shit tone of that stuff. Back in around 2006 was the first time I saw BHO in a dispensary. They had two different types. "Buddhas earwax" which looked exactly like ear wax and "Gods Snot" which looked like someone did a snot rocket into a little container. Granted a few bowls of that "God snot" had me get lost driving on a road I have driven everyday for 10+ years.
I first came across it around the year 2000 being sold as "Doctor P's Oil" in a SF dispensary. Like ajroxit describes, it came in a small vial and we used metal pins or paper clips to "dab" it onto red-hot charcoal.