Michigan is currently flooded in fake shatter
Perfectly colored golden slabs that shatter at room temp, but get soft when handled. Does not nucleate, has no smell and is suspected to be a pine resin and distillate mix
Attached are test results, Shatter wouldn’t be fully activated with 0 THCa, this is more than likely distillate mixed with pine resin
Have you had it officially tested? Have you done solubility tests? Have you dabbed or eaten any? What else makes you think it is fake? @Siosis came up with a solubility test apart from the standard, does it dissolve in water or alcohol. Can’t remember where he posted it, though.
Agreed. 100% decarb and 50%ish cannabinoids with shatter consistency is suspect and almost certainly fake. Any solubility tests performed like I mentioned above? Did Iron Labs mention anything fishy? They are certainly not my favorite technicians to test my products, and one would think that they likely had solubility issues with the sample. That should have been reported back to you imo.
No solubility tests were performed
Still 50% is high for fake stuff. This is the second time im hearing about 50% thc shatter. Heard the same from another member here
That would be like 58% thca non decarbed which ain’t high for shatter but ain’t crazy low either
Probably near 50/50 distillate/pine resin
That’s gross. Fuck. Never thought of it that way
Welcome to the world of delta 8 slabs lol
I know several ppl selling d8 with htc layer as shatter because of the stability
Been saying pine resin for over a year now. Last spring if you looked at cartridges on Alibaba it would advertise pine rosin in the related items. Clearly the algorithm picked up on a correlation with what the black market was buying.
Wasn’t a processor in Michigan advertising that they were adding some sketchy “plant derived extract stabilizer” in their slabs? Saying it was a good thing to add
So here I comeeeee to save the dayyyyy
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So what you do is…
Put a quarter gram on a spoon and take a lighter to the bottom straight junky style.
Let it get completely melted. Stick your finger in it (let it cool slightly so you don’t come back calling me a dumb ass who got you burned)
Then wait like 5 seconds and rub your fingers together. If it’s pine resin or whatever it should harden almost instantly into a candle wax like material. And when you try to scrape it off it should like crumble on you and be hard to get off your finger.
Oil should remain sticky and sappy once its heated up. And when you pull it off your finger it should smear and be oily and sappy and shit like thick honey. This stuff dries rock hard instantly on your finger and has no sappy like tendency’s once it’s dried to your finger
I got some fake shatter here still. I’m gonna try this too.
I just got some of this from Cali the price was 6$ a g on 20 potatoes got a sample before purchase to get tested and same thing 50% all thc
“The price goes way down when you buy a lot”
Its funny because this is from a very very trusted source and it still is shit. Which is why anything coming into a facility must 100% be tested in house
Anyone have any ideas on how to clean it up??
I’m wondering what solvent won’t dissolve the pine resin 
Yeah, that looks like the stuff my employee walked in with. Looks great. Leaves nasty stuff all over the nail and in your mouth.
Pine resin has a pretty wide range of constituents as well so you may be able to remove part but likely not all.
I just tried some questionable shatter from a source that is normally pretty reliable. Although i have had issues where i thought it was cut / adultrated. Just last night i tried a dab outta my puffco. I noticed there was reside on the side and i thought it was a few hairs since my cap gets sticky. I scraped the gunk off the side of the wall and it was a squsihy rubbery spec of goop, very similar consistincey to the sticky clear stretchy glue that holds cardboard to plastic.
The biggest giveaway to me is the consistency. The cut stuff will stretch and pull unnaturally, like that clear strecthy adhesive i was talking about. ( i really cant think of the name of it and feel dumb lmao) a few months ago i had shatter that stretched out and would slowly pull back into itself like a rubber band in slow mo. It also has a very distinct fake / plasticy pine taste.
Yea, I just got a call
From a guy asking what to do. I’m wondering if it could be cleaned and distilled?
You just need to know if the boiling points of the stuff that makes up pine resin are far enough apart in temperature from your target cannabinoids really.
It kills me every time I see someone saying they’re getting stuff like this when I know plenty of people that don’t play those games with quality.
I would imagine pine sap would not dissolve readily in methanol or ACN. That being said, if someone is selling you pine sap as shatter, do you really think that’s all you need to clean out if the oil? (If there is actually any real canna in it)
