{"id":194,"date":"2017-02-03T00:02:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hippy.com\/hip\/uncategorized\/making-hashish-yourself\/"},"modified":"2017-02-03T00:02:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:02:46","slug":"making-hashish-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/ask-the-old-hippie\/making-hashish-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Hashish Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tGreetings oh Elder of the most high, My quest is to make my own hash. I’m very interested both traditional and hi-tec pollen extractors. <\/p>\n

\nI have been experimenting with silk screens with some success and
\ndisasters. Time of harvest and cure seem important aspects, shaking or
\nrubbing presure on the screen seems to vary the quality. I’ve heard of cold water extraction. <\/p>\n

\nThere is a machine on the European market but haven’t as yet located it.
\nAfghani Black is a good standard. They’ve been doing it for thousands of years, How? <\/p>\n

\n May the long time sun shine upon your website
\n ONE LOVE
\n herb Al <\/p>\n

\nP.S. Don’t panic my herb is strickly organic. <\/p>\n

\n
\nSounds like you have very high standards. I’m impressed! The Old Hippy is
\nvery fond of high quality hashish from Afghanistan (as well as Nepal,
\nPakistan, India, and of course Morocco). I just finished reading a great
\nbook (not available in the US at present) called Mr. Nice. It’s the
\nautobiography of Howard Marks who smuggled hashish into England and Canada by the ton. He witnessed the tribesmen making hashish on the
\nPakistan\/Afghani border (known as border hash). The technique he saw them using required them to pound the cannabis using a huge stone suspended from a see-saw like contraption. It was smashing the THC from the plant in a big wok shaped bowl. Underneath a fire was heating up the mixture, turning it black. So their technique forces the breakup of the resin glands and the
\nheat activates the THC. <\/p>\n

\nYou should be aware that sometimes black hash contains opium. But usually
\nit is black due to the heat processing or because they gather the resins by
\nhand (thus heating it) forming black charas (finger hash). In Amsterdam I
\nhave had the pleasure of comparing the various types of hash and savoring
\nthe finest. Now my preference is for the least processed. My favorite is
\nthe top quality from the Rif Mountains (see the story Kif in the Rif<\/a> on our Hip Guide to Morocco<\/a> site). The resin is coaxed from the plant by
\npounding it with sticks. It falls into a sack and is then gently pressed. It
\ndoesn’t get touched by hand and is not heated. It has the purest sweetest
\nflavor (when it’s top quality). <\/p>\n

\nThe Dutch also make fine hashish (called Nederhash) from their super strong
\nDutch bio and hydro weed. The color of this varies from very light almost
\nwhite to light brown to green (not usually good as it has too much plant
\nmaterial). This hash is made in small quantities and taste and quality
\nvaries but it can be excellent. The Dutch use a machine that’s like a
\nsmall tumbler (pollinator – see below) that spins allowing the cannabis to fall thus knocking loose
\nthe THC. It accumulates and then they press it. The big advantage is that
\nthe hash is usually very, very fresh. Imported hashish can sit for years in
\nstorage before it gets consumed. <\/p>\n

-The Old Hippy<\/p>\n

\nUPDATE: First let me warn people about the Black Hashish flooding the market in 2002. It seems there’s such a surplus of opium thanks to the Taliban and the Northern Alliance releasing their three year supply to help pay for the war in Afghanistan, that it’s finding it’s way into hashish in unprecedented proportions (perhaps more than 50%). There are some ways to identify it, but its always very soft and pliable, and sometimes sticky. Unless you want to find yourself addicted to opium I suggest you stay away from it. Stick with the lighter Moroccan or locally produced hashishes from your area.<\/p>\n

\nSecondly, the best machine on the market for doing quantities of hashish is the Pollinator made in Holland. You can visit their website<\/a> and check it out. On that site you can also find out about the latest method of extracting ice-o-lator hashish, which uses ice water to separate the tricomes from the plant material. This yields the purest hashish using special bags with built in screens and a hand mixer. The main problem with this method is that the result must be dried thoroughly otherwise it will get moldy. I recommend any isolator hash be consumed immediately!<\/p>\n

\nAnd lastly the Old Hippy doesn’t advocate breaking any laws. The making and possession of Hashish is some areas can result in far worse penalties than that of unprocessed marijuana. Please keep this in mind.<\/p>\n

Posted by: skip
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