Not hash. Weed usually from Mexico compressed into bricks for ease of transport. Usually quite seedy and sometimes containing assorted extras like bugs, bits of trash, etc.
Watch the movie Cisco Pike...you'll learn a lot. Cisco runs across really good herb and the folks he sells it too realize it too.
Mexican marijuana that's been compressed into bricks in order to sneak out of the country
I wouldnt imagine mexican bagweed making good hash. It has a fairly low THC profile. You need a stout pure indica to make stuff with quality like Moroccan. I did it with Ace Seeds Bubba Hash. They way it works in Mexico is the impoverished farmers in the South would grow it and after its bundled the cartels would buy it up and start moving it north. Its not a complete criminal enterprise like cocaine or meth production. More like dirt poor farmers trying to survive another yearMy only guess why the Mexicans did that instead of just making hash is reduced labour.
There is this VICE documentary (I think?) where you can see how they make hash in Morocco. There are the plantations and then labourers keep drumming the weed bushels for hours on end with wooden sticks, on top of a sieve. Then gets pressed into hash.
Mexicans were probably too lazy to do the drumming, so they skipped that part
Still, the Moroccan hash that I know was pretty bad. Also sometimes you would simply get sold a piece of plastic, wasn't exactly easy to distinguish... I've never bought anything off the streets back then anyway; that was in the late 90s. Weed was quite difficult to find, sometimes somebody would bring something from NL, or found a contact who had some. At some point a few years later suddenly weed was everywhere, and nowadays nobody is smoking hash anymore. Moroccan smuggling must have gone way downhill.
What we had back then was from Morocco. But it was not of good quality...
There was a lot of terrible "soapbar" hash floating around. Lebanese and Afghan always killed Moroccan hash in quality.
It's not popular at all anymore in Europe. The only reason we smoked it back then was because there was not much weed on the market; would have taken decent weed over that garbage any day, paying double the price.
It's much the same in Europe I guess. Domestic growing is the majority of the supply now. I've seen numbers from UK from 2006, where it was estimated to be 50% of the UK market. One can assume it is a lot more by now, and similar to UK in the rest of Europe.
That is the kind of stuff I was talking about. Looked and felt like a dark brown soap bar. Sometimes gave you headaches when smoked. Yuckity yuck.
Yeah I know what "hash" is
.Can you comment on or point me to how you make dry sift? That is some killer looking stuff.
No way. Did this actually happen or is that rhetoric now?
A lot of breeders qualify their seeds that way nowadays, don't they?
Numbers are always the cheap cop-out for lack of creativity or laziness in marketing. To be fair, it often works.
Dry sift (kief) is gathered by tumbling dry plant matter in a variable speed, rotating drum with a 150 micron mesh. I use one made by Tom's Tumbler, which can hold about 3-5lbs of ground up buds. Yields vary (10 to 23%) but late harvest popcorn buds have the highest yield (by weight) due to surface area available for trichomes to grow on.
What's the CO2 for that is on that picture?