Weights & Meaures: Handy Guide to Making A Buy;-

1 X 16th (Teenth) = 1.75g

1 x 8th = 3.5g

1 x Quarter = 7g

1x Half Ounce = 14g

1x Ounce = 28g

The above are commercial measures.

In the days before digital scales dealers often used pan scales using handy weights 1p & 2p pieces. Four two pence pieces weighed an Ounce. A penny weighed an 8th.

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Moroccan Hashish

Moroccan hash is often called by many other names, usually incorrectly. Kif;- Traditionally loose resins are mixed with a local illegal black tobacco at a ratio of 2:1 & this is smoked in a long stemmed one hit clay or soap stone bowl pipe called a sebsi.

Polm, not pollen, is the golden coloured pressed hashish of various quality.

Soap Bar (Peasant Bar, Kak Bar) - contains some third quality resins but is made up to weight with donkey shit, rubber, henna, coffee grounds & anything else that may comes to hand. This is not really hashish, but poison.

Moroccan hash is made via the same sieved method as Afghani hash, which is not so suprising considering that the method was taught to Moroccans by a traveller called Billy Badman around 1965 (see R.C. Clarke 'Hashish'). Morocco did not produce hashish before the 1960's. Commercial hash production did not begin until 1967.

After the first sieving, the cannais is placed under a plastic sheet & is beaten with a stick to further dislodge resins. Subsequent beatings become heavier with less resins being produced & with more bits of plant material dropping through.

Lebanese Hashish

Generally comes in two sized bars, 250g & 500g, and is usually pressed in cloth bags. Lower quality is warmed with steam before pressing unlike low quality Moroccan or Afghani which often requires heat & a high pressure hydraulic jack press.

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Ice-O-Later Hash - (home made with two bag kit & Sagamatha Seeds Early Riser)

Ice-O-Later Hashish

Ice-o-later hash is made using water, ice, bucket, & sieve sacks. The collected resins can be pressed into a lump or allowed to dry loose. This is the purest form of hashish on the market. It has been measured at 53% THC per 1g.

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Traditional Nepalese - (seven parts hand rubbed cannabis resin, one part opium)

Nepalese Hashish

Internationally renowned for traditional hand rubbed resins (charus) collected from wild plants. Often used in religious sacraments. A soft hash usually comes in fingers or balls. Connoisseurs choice.