APL Black is a BHO product, made with dried (cured) flower and meets Health Canada Specs & passed all the lab tests. It's a stirred product, so its more like a thick cake badder as apposed to a hard substance such as shatter. And because its oilier and softer in texture, it retains more of the terpenes. The easily manipulated extract can be inhaled, either dabbed or with a vaped cartridge meant for concentrates. It is packaged in the familiar black child proof pouches for many different reasons.