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What is Hashish? (hash·eesh) A purified resin prepared from the flowering tops of the female cannabis plant and smoked or chewed as a narcotic or an intoxicant.

How to Make Hash PictureHashish consists of the tetrahydrocannabinol-rich resinous material from the female flowers of the cannabis plant, which is collected, dried, and then compressed. Pieces are then broken off, placed in pipes, joints or hookahs and smoked. Since THC is fat-soluble, it is also possible to dissolve hashish in butter used for cooking. The Middle East, North Africa, Pakistan, and Afghanistan are the main sources of hashish. The THC content of hashish that reached the United States, where demand is limited, averaged 6 percent in the 1990s.

I will provide you with some techniques on how to make hash from extracting the Resin, please do these at your own risk. I will not be responsible for any burns and stupidness!

How to Make Hash 1 - Pollen/Powder Compression

How to Make Hash Technique 2 - Solvent Extracted

Making Hash Technique 3 - Simple Effective Technique by ~finga~

Hash Technique 1

Get a LOT of female plants that have grown all the way and may even contain seeds. Make sure they are absolutely dry by hanging them in a shed for some weeks. Now take off All the leaves that are bigger than 1/2 inch. You end up with just a stem with some buds sitting on it. Now strip off the buds into a container. (BTW, Hash (moroccan style) consitsts EXCLUSIVELY of the pressed grains of resin that are sitting on top of tiny resin glands that are most abundant on the leaves surrounding the seeds, or flowers. when the plant is dry this resin hardens to form a very small particle, called "pollen" which is not actual pollen however.)

So now youve got all the clean buds start crushing them over a kitchen sieve (mesh size abouHow to Make Hash Hashball Picturet 0.5 mm). The seeds and stems will stay on top of the sieve. "Grind" the leaves gently through the sieve. You end up with a sort of powdered leaves. Be sure that the thin skins that surround the seeds are included in this result, because they contain most of the resin glands. You may repeat this process using a sieve with an even smaller mesh size (0.25 mm). Then take a cloth with the appropriate "mesh size" and rub the powder you have already got over this cloth. In the ideal case, only the finestt particles pass through the cloth and will ill consist only of tiny grains of resin. Now take this powder and wrap it into a sheet of kitchen plastic foil. Now press this "package" between a few logs of wood.

The result is a sheet of hashisch. If the sheet falls apart again you've got too much leafy stuff in between the resine. Try a cloth with a smaller mesh size the next time. This procedure is only advised when you have so much weed to spare that you don't possibly smoke it all in a year.

How to Make Hash Technique 2

How to make hash with a basic solvent-extracted technique from dried leaves or dried buds:

Take dried marijauna and crush it up into a fine powder.

Put the powder in a jar with 100% pure Isopropyl alcohol, so the alcohol covers the powder.

Soak in a dark place for anywhere from a couple of hours to a few days.

Pour the mixture through a screen onto a glass plate. A fine kitchen strainer or gold coffee filter work well.

Evaporate the liquid carefully. This can be done either by letting it sit out in a warm place or by heating it up. If you're going to heat it, be careful...it's flammable. Do it someplace with good ventalation, preferably near a kitchen exhaust fan that blows outside.

Scrape up the tar with a razor blade or spatula. Try to choose a pan or bowl that won't be harmed by a razor (glass?).

If it is too sticky, add a little dry powder till it attains the consistancy of silly putty. Work it over and over. This seems to make it bind together. Practice makes perfect.

Use in any way you'd normally use hash!

This is better than any imported hash I've ever found. Burns slow at a low temp, so I think you get more THC. It makes a little pot last longer. I know people who go through a half an ounce weekly smoking the bulk material, a quarter will last a week if extracted. A different high altogether, light and trippy. Kind bud makes a gold tar and is SOOOO sweet!!!

Making Hash Technique 3

The simplest yet most effective way I have found to make hashish is as follows,

First get a metal grinder. Now ideally you are going to want a sturdy metal grinder preferably magnetized. when you put the weed into the grinder trim off excess stems and pick out the seeds. Take the remaining plant material and put it in the grinder, twist it 1-2 times both directions. Now place the grinder in the freezer for approx 10 minutes, this will snap freeze the buds, allowing them to release their trichome crystals.

Then grind the weed as you normally would tapping the grinder on your palm lightly. This will make the trichome crystals drop through the screen in the grinder. Now at this point you need to make a note of the color of the fine powder that's coming through the screen. This should be either a reddish color, or a tan blondish color. Now if you are getting a powder that is greenish in color don't fear just start over grinding more weed, and take that powder and tap it out into a cellophane wrapper, like a cigarette pack cellophane. Fold the cellophane wrapper around the powder tightly and neatly, in doing this we are compacting the carbon based trichomes. When you have a sizable amount, approx 2 tablespoons fold the powder up neatly and very tightly in the cellophane wrapper.

The next thing you are going to do is take the packet you just made and wrap it inside a piece of newspaper like its a Xmas present. 2-3 layers should be good. Now heat your oven to 200 degrees. While the oven is heating up run cold tap water profusely on the newspaper packet. let it get a lot of moisture on the paper that is what is going to steam the powder into a hardened hash form. Now once it's saturated sufficiently you can wrap it up in a layer of aluminum foil dull side in, and then you are going to put it in the oven once it is heated to 200 degree. Leave it on one side for 3 minutes then flip it for 3 more minutes. Take it out and roll it with a rolling pin for 1-2 minutes, then run it under cold water and place it back in the oven. This time leave it for 5 minutes on each side.Take it out put it on a hard non-meltable surface, and roll it for about 4 minutes switching sides periodically.

Now the fun part open the package up carefully, there should be a green film on the cellophane wrapper. that is a sign of success, if you don't see that check to make sure the oven was on. By the way I suggest setting the oven to broil, it heats whatever is in the oven more evenly. If you don't see that green film go back wrap it all back up and re-cook it till the color darkens its consistency hardens and condenses to almost a tar state. Break it open and check out the cooked center of the bar of hash. Do what you will with it from there. Be it time to smoke it however, I would personally suggest either in a glass bowl on top of weed, or in a water bong loaded with ice cubes..

Marijuana plants are either male or female. The male plants produce pollen which pollenates the flowers of the female plant, which once pollenized, produce seeds. If the female plant isn't pollenized (if there are no male plants nearby producing pollen), the flower/buds continue to develop and produce THC. Female plants which are not pollenized are referred to as sensemilla (without seeds).

Usually 40-50% of the plants are male.

Whats the Difference you ask?

Males are often, but not always, tall with stout stems, sporadic branching, and few leaves. Males are usually harvested except those used for breeding, after their sex has been determined, but before the pollen is shed. When harvesting, especially if close to females, cut the plant off at the base, taking care to shake the male as little as possible. This helps prevent any accidental pollination by an unnoticed, open male flower.

When a male enters the stage of flower development, the tips of the branches where a bud would develop will start to grow what looks like a little bud (little balls) but it will have no white hairs coming out of it. Females will have no balls and will have small white hairs.

Cancer Chemotherapy

The drugs used to treat cancer are among the most powerful, and most toxic, chemicals used in medicine. They kill both cancer cells and healthy cells, producing extremely unpleasant and dangerous side effects. The most common is days or weeks of vomiting, retching, and nausea after each treatment. The feeling of loss of control is highly depressing, and patients find it very difficult to eat anything, and lose weight and strength. People find it more and more difficult to sustain the will to live, and many chose to discontinue treatment, preferring death to treatment.

Cannabis can be used as an antiemetic, a drug which relieves nausea and allows patients to eat and live normally. It is safer, cheaper and often more effective than standard synthetic antiemetics. Smoking cannabis is more effective than taking it orally (or its synthetic derivatives such as Marinol) as patients it difficult to keep anything down long enough for it to have an effect. Smoking cannabis produces an immediate effect, and patients find it easier to control the doseage. Additionally the euphoric properties act as an anti-depressant, and the hunger and enjoyment of food properties ('the munchies') make weight gain easy, and these increase the chances of recovery.

Scientific Evidence

Vincigeurra et al. found that 78% of 56 patients with nausea who were resistant to standard drugs became symptom free through inhaling cannabis. Chang et al. found that smoking cannabis rather than ingesting it seemed more effective.

Doblin & Kleiman sent a questionaire to US oncologists (cancer specialists). 44% of the respondents had recommended illegal use of cannabis and half of them would prescribe it if it were legal.

Links:

Cannabis Sativa v Marinol - A Patient's Story

This is a detailed personal testimony by a testicular cancer patient who underwent 13 cycles of chemotherapy. He discovered that smoking cannabis made his constant nausea manageable, and allowed him to eat normally. He also used Marinol, and discovered that although it stopped his nausea, it also knocked him him unconscious, and he couldn't eat while he was sleeping. So he began to take half his Marinol dose and top it up with cannabis, and was able to lead a normal life between chemotheraphy sessions.

Marijuana and Multiple Sclerosis

In the condition known as MS the normal functioning of the nerves in the brain and spinal cord is disrupted. Dibilitating attacks, which last for weeks, come and go unpredictably, with gradual deterioration and eventual disability. Because the central nervous system controls the entire body, the effects may appear anywhere. Common symptoms include tingling, numbness, impaired vision, difficulty in speaking, painful muscle spasms, loss of co-ordination and balance, fatigue, weakness or paralysis, loss of bladder control, urinary tract infections, constipation, skin ulcerations and severe depression.

There is no known effective treatment. The standard drugs used to treat the muscle spasms are addicitve, have severe short-term side effects and worryingly damaging long-term side effects. Many MS sufferers find that they don't even work.

Cannabis has a startling and profound effect on the symptoms of MS. It stops muscle spasms, reduces tremors, restores balance, restores bladder control and restores speech and eyesight. Many wheelchair-bound patients report that they can walk unaided when they have smoked cannabis. Patients also report that they find smoked herbal cannabis better at controlling their symptoms that synthetic derivatives. According to Marijuana - The Forbidden Medicine cannabis may even retard the progression of the disease.

Scientific Evidence

In 1995 Mills reviewed all the scientific evidence of MS treatment using cannabis, and discussed all the surrounding issues. He concluded that the evidence is sparse and of poor quality and that a proper clinical trial of smoked cannabis for MS, was needed. Dr Roger Pertwee of the Department of Biomedical Sciences at Aberdeen University wants to carry out such a study. Unfortunately he still needs proper funding and a source of legal cannabis.

In 1997 Dr Pertwee, along with Consroe et al. carried out a survey of MS patients who are using cannabis to see how cannabis helped their condition. The patients reported that cannabis helped the following conditions: spasticity, chronic pain of extremities, acute paroxysmal phenomenon, tremor, emotional dysfunction, anorexia/weight loss, fatigue states, double vision, sexual dysfunction, bowel and bladder dysfunctions, vision dimness, dysfunctions of walking and balance, and memory loss (these results are ranked in order, 97% of the patients said cannabis helped the first condition, spasticity, down to 30% reporting the last condition, memory loss.

Although there has never been a clinical trial of MS patients, that used smoked herbal cannabis, there is some direct evidence of cannabis' effect on tremor. Both Clifford and Meinck et al. reported that cannabis reduced tremors and provided graphic evidence of this, in the form of before and after tremor recordings and handwriting samples.

During the 80's there were three trials of oral synthetic THC in small numbers of MS patients. All were placebo-controlled, and involved various doses of THC from 2.5 to 15 mg daily. Many of the patients claimed to get a beneficial effect from THC, but the doctors, looking on objectively could find no effect in most of them - perhaps cannabis has a psychological benefit rather than a muscular one. Petro & Ellenberg found that THC improved spasticity compared with placebo, and that half their 8 patients had a "substantial" improvement. Clifford found that 7 of his 9 patients claimed a benfefit, but doctors could only confirm that 2 patients had benefited. Ungerleider et al. studied 13 patients with MS that proved untreatable with standard drugs. Although the patients said their spasticity had improved significantly, the doctors couldn't spot an improvement. Large THC doses were poorly tolerated by the patients, with weakness, dry mouth, dizziness and psychoactive effects the common complaints - interestingly none of the patients asked to keep a supply of THC after the trial ended.

A recent letter in the Lancet from Martyn et al. reports synthetic cannabinoid, nabilone being of benefit in a single patient study. Weeks of placebo and nabilone were alternated, and muscle spasm, general well-being and sleep all improved when cannabis was given.

There is also evidence from animal experiments. EAE is an artificial disease that has been used as a laboratory model of MS in guinea pigs. Lyman et al. reported that when animals were exposed to the disease and treated with a placebo, they all developed severe EAE and 98% died. The animals that were treated with THC had no or mild symptoms and 95% survived.

Glaucoma

The human eyeball is filled with fluid, which exerts pressure to keep the eyeball spherical. Glaucoma is a condition where the channels through which the fluid flows gradually become blocked, and the intraocular pressure gradually increases, causing increasing damage to the optic nerve, and gradual deterioration of vision. Glaucoma is the second-largest cause of blindness, and affects 1.5 % of 50-year olds and 5 % of seventy-year olds.

Standard treatments have unpleasant or dangerous side effects, and have little effect on intraocular pressures in end-stage glaucoma. Cannabis however lowers intraocular pressures dramatically, with none of the serious side effects. Patients who find that standard medicines do not help their conditions report that smoking cannabis quickly restores their vision. Many long-term glaucoma patients have successfully maintained their sight using cannabis for 20 or 25 years, and avoided the gradual painfull deterioration to blindness that is otherwise enevitable.

However older generations, who are most at risk of glaucoma do not appreciate the euphoric side effects of smoked or ingested cannabis. There is also concern about the effects on the cardio-vasculat system. There is hope that a cannabis-containing eyedrop could be developed in the future which would have no side effects but this is made difficult since cannabinoids are not water soluble.

Ironically the discovery that cannabis lowers intraocular pressure was made accidentally during a police experiment. They were trying to discover if cannabis caused pupil dilation in users, so that they could detect and arrest them more easily!

Scientific Evidence

The effect of cannabis on intraocular pressure (IOP) in normal subjects has been well studied, however the effect on glaucoma patients is less well known, with only a handful of patients studied. Only one study used herbal cannabis, the rest have used cannabinoids.

Hepler & Frank (1971) found that oral or smoked cannabis reduced intraocular pressures in normal subjects for about 4 to 5 hours with "no indications of any deleterious effects ... on visual function or ocular structure". They concluded that cannabis may be more useful than conventional medications and probably works by a different mechanism.

Almost all of the studies using cannabinoids have been double-blind and placebo controlled. Two studies were of the effects of oral or smoked THC on IOP in normal subjects. Hepler et al. (1976) reported that the drop in IOP was dose-related. Jones et al. (1981) found that tolerance to the effects quickly built up, and there was a rebound in IOP to above baseline levels when treatment was stopped. Another two studies used intravenous infusions of various cannabinoids. Perez-Reyes et al. (1976) found that only the cannabinoids that had psychoactive effects produced a drop in IOP. Cooler & Gregg (1977) reported a drop in IOP but increased anxiety. The effects of cannabinoids on IOP were confirmed in numerous animal experiments, reviewed by Adler & Geller (1986).

The few studies on glaucoma patients all involve small numbers of patients. Hepler et al. (1976) found that when THC was smoked for months at a time by glaucoma patients, the effect on intraocular pressure stayed constant and there was no deterioration of vision. However only 7 of the 11 patients showed the effect. Merrit et al. (1980) carried out a double-blind and placebo controlled study on 18 patients and found a significant reduction in IOP but unwanted cardio-vascular and pyschoactive side-effects.

Applying cannabinoids directly to the eyes should remove the side-effects but is proving difficult since they are not water-soluble. Merrit et al. (1981) applied THC to only one eye in 8 patients, but found an effect on IOP in both eyes suggesting that the THC had been adsorbed into the bloodstream, rather than acting topically. However his patients reported no pyschoactive side-effects.

In ancient days, Hindus and Hippies offered Cannibis as a sacrifice to the Marijuana Gods.

They would fill ornate silver bongs and place them before Shiva, or Kali, or Krishna. If in the lighting they were forced to inhale a toke or two, well, that's the price they paid for pleasing their Dieties.

Today, smokers from all over the world continue this tradition, albeit with more toking and less sacrificing. Still, one can flick a roach out a window or tap out some ashes and intone a heartfelt sacrifice "to the Marijuana Gods."

Of course, being Stoned Gods, they might not notice.

Man created beer, God created marijuana.

Chances are like marijuana more than beer, unless you're some Government Agency spying on law-abiding citizens who happen to publish a marijuana website. If that's the case, SCREW YOU!

For everyone else, look around and enjoy yourself.

The bus slows down. Steve cranks open the door. Phil grabs my shirt and yanks me to my feet.

“You’re coming with us,” he tells me. Then he drags me to the exit and throws me out of the bus. I tumble onto the dirt road, roll over and stare up at a jungle of eight-foot-high marijuana plants.

Phil and Ira jump off with machetes in hand. Sissy tosses out the box of trash bags. The bus keeps going. Ira hands me his machete.

“You and Phil chop, I’ll bag,” he says. “Steve and Sissy will return in exactly thirty minutes, God willing. Now, Doug, only cut the very, tender tips of the plants. Be very precise.”

I rush at the stalks and attack them like a wild beast, slashing, chopping, stabbing at them with a fury that forces Phil and Ira to jump out of my way.

It should be glorious, this sweaty, pot-filled paradise. It’s a pipe-dream come true.

I should be in a state of bliss.

But all I can think about is Mary.

The insects find me and begin feasting on the spongy, half-baked scab on my arm, and the freshly opened wounds on my palms.

The insects are in a state of bliss.

I sit on the dirt and yank the steel-toed construction boots off my bare, blistered feet. I despise these unyielding boots. I despise Mary. I despise Phil. I hate him for screwing Mary. For ditching Mary. For ruining Mary.

Ira looks over at me, sitting on the ground, useless as usual. He watches Phil pound the last of the pot into a trash bag. They’re so full they’re starting to rip. Marijuana twigs poke through the sides.

“Doug, your brother’s an animal,” Ira informs me, and chuckles.

I sling my boots over my shoulder and help drag the trash bags to the side of the road. We sit on them like beanbag chairs, afraid to look at each other, afraid to acknowledge our fears. Did the bus break down? Did Steve and Sissy get busted? Are the pigs going to haul us off to some iron prison?

This is such a bummer. It certainly isn’t what I expected when I left home last month. I had a simple plan. I was going to hitchhike to Utopia. How did I end up in Hell?

Then it dawns on me. There’s no marijuana in Hell. This forest of pot is a gift from the Marijuana Gods! I look at Phil and Ira, sitting on the bags of marijuana, surrounded by marijuana plants, covered in marijuana sap and marijuana leaves. And something magical happens. I start to laugh.

“This is far out,” I say, the first words I’ve spoken since we left the KOA. “This is amazing!”

Phil reaches over and pats my shoulder.

“Welcome back, bro.”

Ira musses my hair. “We thought we lost you, little brother.”

“I’m fine,” I tell them, surprised they noticed how miserable I was. “I’m groovy. Look at all this pot!”

I’m soaring. I’m cured. Thank you, Marijuana Gods. From now on, I’m sticking with Mary Jane.

We hear the rumbling of an engine grow louder, moving toward us. The bus appears around the bend. Steve slows down but doesn’t stop. We toss in the trash bags, then trot alongside the bus and hop in one at a time. Sissy pulls the bags into a corner and covers them with blankets. Steve cranks the bus through eight thousand gears and we’re on the road again.

We dry a little pot on the stove as we slug toward Denver, then roll our first joint. We light it with high expectations. Smells like pot. Tastes like pot. A little harsh, but not too bad. We smoke one joint, then light up another. And another. Finally we succeed in giving ourselves some nasty headaches.

Sissy suggests we weave our harvest into jeans. Phil wants to throw it away. But Ira says we just can’t toss six giant bags of marijuana off a bus without someone noticing. Besides, he knows a secret formula to increase the potency of bad pot. All we have to do is get to Denver without breaking down or getting busted.

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