Modified on: 25/10/2023
HERE’S WHAT CBD HASH IS, HOW IT’S MADE AND WHY IT’S MORE POWERFUL THAN CANNABIS
Hashish, also called hash, is one of the most renowned products derived from cannabis globally. It can be made both industrially and in the home (with a great dose of patience). It has also been reproduced in its CBD version, the only legal version in Switzerland that you can find on Justbob.
But how is hashish made, and why is it so sought after? What are the differences between smoking and marijuana?
Let’s try to answer these questions clearly so that you can perfectly understand the method of making this product!
What is hashish, and how is it made?
As you may know, hashish takes the form of a block or a sphere of variable color, ranging from light green to very dark brown.
Specifically, it is a cannabis pollen concentrate, called kief, mechanically separated from the buds and processed to become a malleable and aromatic product. Pollen is precisely the resin produced by the mature trichomes of cannabis, rich in cannabinoids, among which THC (in illegal weed in Switzeland) and CBD (in legal weed Switzerland) prevail.
Once the hashish producers have extracted the resin from dried or fresh plants, they let it mature to cool the outermost layer.
Subsequently, those who buy cbd hash use it like marijuana, crumbling it and then inhaling it by vaporization or combustion. However, since hashish is a resin concentrate rich in cannabinoids, its effects are far superior to those of cannabis flowers!
Small quantities of this product are enough to experience intense and lasting sensations.
You must also know that there are different types of hashish and that this product’s development varies according to them.
Hashish: how is it done? It all depends on the various types of this product!
As we have anticipated, different types of hashish are divided into 3 broad categories by preparation method. Here are which ones:
- Resin rubbed from fresh plants (Indian hashish, also called Charas)
- Dry sieved resin (Afghan, Nepalese, Moroccan and hashish Burbuka)
- Bubble hash, also called Ice Wax, is extracted with ice water.
Let’s see, below, the details about these methods.
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Extraction of resin from still fresh plants to obtain Charas hashish
The method of extracting the resin from the still fresh marijuana plants and then bringing it to maturity and getting the Charas hashish is typical of India … But it has been replicated in many other parts of the world, up to the legal hash landscape in Europe.
How is “fresh” resin extracted from cannabis plants?
The method is straightforward to explain but highly laborious to put into practice. Producers of Charas, the only hash made from fresh plants, rub the tops of cannabis plants in their hands.
By doing so, the resin adheres to the palms and fingers. From time to time, the workers involved in making Charas scrape the resin from their hands thanks to a unique tool, forming natural curls of sticky material.
Working the resin between the palms, they obtain small malleable spheres.
The producers let them mature until they take on a color that changes from brown to black and then put them on the market.
Dry sieving of the resin to produce Burbuka, Afghan hashish and many other types of smoke
Dry cannabis sieving is the most widely used method in the world to obtain quality CBD hash. Basically, we start with both dried and frozen marijuana buds because the trichomes separate much more easily from the flowers when they are very cold.
To scrape the resin from the buds, artisanal hash makers arm themselves with a sieve to place over a container. By rubbing the cannabis buds on the sieve, the container fills with kief. The workers then heat and press the kief by placing it in special plates and using a rolling pin.
This way, they obtain numerous malleable blocks of variable color, ranging from white to light green, from dark green to brown.
Of course, the industrial process is simpler and faster than the artisan one and guarantees the exact same quality to hashish.
How to make bubble hash, one of the newest methods of making hashish?
Ice Wax, also known as Bubble Hash, is a type of hashish born around the 90s, therefore in much more recent times than Charas and dry-rubbed hashish.
To produce this variety of hash, it is necessary, first, to equip yourself with a particular tool called Bubble box or Bubble bag, which allows the extraction of only the resin almost entirely free of any other plant residue!
How should you proceed?
Frozen cannabis CBD buds are immersed in very cold, almost frozen water. Then the water is filtered thanks to the Bubble bag or another dedicated tool. The bags or boxes for the Ice Wax contain several sieves, one under the other, which can have increasingly narrower meshes, as you can well imagine.
The sieves allow producers to extract trichomes of different thicknesses and separate every single herb residue from the resin.
Once all the water has been drained, it is necessary to press the resin into small lumps on absorbent paper to eliminate the humidity present in it and prevent mould formation.
Subsequently, the trichomes must be stored in a cool and dry place to dry within about 2 weeks.
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In conclusion
Now you know everything about making hashish: how it’s made, the different types of this product, and what it consists of specifically. As you already know, in the UK, it is not allowed to produce hashish with a high THC content, but it is legal to make it with CBD buds with a high CBD content (and THC less than 1%).
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