[ChaosCatalunya]

Greetings hash lovers

Moroccan hash has always been something of a mystery for me, it was the first thing I smoked, but we always knew we were getting a rubbish quality, rumours abounded of adulterants, conker trees, henna, dog shit...

Now, bearing in mind that Moroccan hash production is spread over thousands of farms in the mountains with no connection, standards etc, so there is a lot of variation in standards and methods.

This year I have bumped into several people who have been over there who have all told similar tales, as nobody else has posted about it, I will... please forgive any errors, it is all "to the best of my knowledge"


One visitor told me that "about 50%" of the fields he saw have been turned over to the "new method"... Basically, the days of hillsides full of wild untended plants are dying, increasingly they are lines of irrigated feminised Dutch/Spanish seeds being tended. It still gets seeded by the neighbours crops, but the quality and potency is climbing.

Plenty of new style varietal hash is arriving in Spain, Netherlands, UK, all over Europe that has never been seen before... Moroccan Amnesia/OG/Widow etc... often in soft 100g bars. Some seems to have been adulterated, despite asking I still have not got to the bottom of why or what it is, but hash that is so soft you would not bother holding up a flame to "see if it melts"... but it does not burn so well and is not as potent as you would thing,,, So, old habits die hard..

But, there is some clean hash coming through, and from several people who were out there, the same story... Hash and "Worked hash"

This is Moroccan dry sift, of Amnesia, from seed. The lighter 2 lumps on the left are au naturel..they smell a lot more of the plants they came from, it is not as dense as the darker lump on the RHS which is "worked". This has lost a lot of the distinctive plant aromas, but is more "hashy" and held to be more potent. I was told it gets sealed up in gaffa tape and beaten hard for hours, it can be a little bit more expensive. Not everybody prefers it, different markets value them differently according to taste. All 3 lumps have been opened up to show the inside, even if it may not look like that

[Dog Star]

I smoked those light yellow pollen when i was in Barcelona,that was like good class
of hash... and i buyed once hashish from one Morocco guy that was so good,
sativa effects of laughing and grinning for 2-3 hours... damn me didnt buy bigger chunk
he offers me... but thats some great smoke i haved there.


Thanx for sharin ChaosCatalunya

[Quiet_Riot]

Looks tasty! So, the darker one you think is contaminated?

[NotYourSaviour]

@ChaosCatalunya


Cheers for summing this up, heard and read similar stories from people been there in the last years.
Though think as you already pointed out there is utter chaos as so many different methods and approaches ; for sure they use western genetics(Note: lots of new stuff from Morocco is labelled as 'Amnesia' lately which is just a somewhat marketing move to me as I doubt they will use one of those cuts(3?)of Amnesia floating around there but at best that seedline of Amnesia from HyProSeeds ; even quite sceptical about this. On the other hand they seem to use lots of feminized seeds from DNA Genetics and the like which I hope won't change their own landrace considering open pollination. ) more and more beside their own traditional landrace and those ones from Afghanistan/Pakistan/India/Jamaica which were even introduced there before the seedlines mentioned above.
Personally enjoy classic as new flavours and certainly hope traditional ones won't disappear but it's not looking good I assume. Time will tell.

Anyway, like Quiet_Riot I'd too like to know if the darker one is contaminated as I can't figure out what you mean. Are you saying they 'worked' it to give it a more classic hashy smell(know what you would mean with this as the new ones about one or two years ago tend to smell a lot different(read: like weed) than the traditional ones but also came accross the ones with foreigen genetics lately smelling lesser like their original strain but more hashy like the traditional ones while you still have this new taste to some point.)?
Or are you saying they mixed up different types of resin to get an other product(as they call it, sp: 'Gerdella')?
Or is this darker one indeed contaminated?

Questions upon questions. Cheers in advance

[gaiusmarius]

worked hash means it has been heated and beat again and again till it becomes gooey. some times they will add crap when they work the hash. but the tech really only involves working it like dough and using a heated surface to whack it down on and knead it. you can find it on you tube. this changes the flavor and activates all the thc as far as i understand it. might make a more sleepy high after being worked.

[GoatCheese]

Originally Posted by ChaosCatalunya

Some seems to have been adulterated, despite asking I still have not got to the bottom of why or what it is, but hash that is so soft you would not bother holding up a flame to "see if it melts"... but it does not burn so well and is not as potent as you would thing,,, So, old habits die hard..


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Looks like some of the Amnesia stuff they sell i Amsterdam. Never tried any myself, cause i like the traditional kinds.



I have had some of these supersoft expensive Moroccan hashes in Adam. I don't think they are "adulterated", but these are not pure pollen either. I think they make oil of the low quality hash and then mix some of this oil with dry pollen to make these super softs.
But these were from a top rated coffeeshop not the streets

Of course it is prolly easier to "cut" the hash now, cause it looks strange to begin with, but the stuff i smoked in Adam few years ago burned clean and tasted like it's supposed to. ..but again streets can be very different.

Enjoy ...i wish i had the hash connections back home what you Spanish boys can have over there



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BTW, how much is that Amnesia pollen Spain /gram? ..in Adam prolly 12-15 euros/g

[gaiusmarius]

Afghan making Kief to black afghani hash

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I AGREE

this is what it means to work the hash

[GoatCheese]

Originally Posted by gaiusmarius

Afghan making Kief to black afghani hash



this is what it means to work the hash

I've also seen pics of people just working the resin in their hands without heating it.




Atleast in some places in Morocco they use another different method; they pound a big lump of hash with wooden clubs, but i'm not sure it they heat it at all.



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In the Strain Hunters Moroc expidition they show how they make oil out of low quality hash.

[hazyfontazy]

worked =crushing trichomes to release oils

[kaochiu]

Just got this as a xmas pressie. It's moroccan made, tangerine hash, (tangerine as from the fruit, not from Tangiers) It does work, it does taste strong good hash, it does get you high. Yet i'm suspicious on how's made.
First, it gets you high, but looks like is gonna get you much higher.
Second, it's so sticky it becames unmanageable, looks like mixed with hash oil. The afghan way as shown in the video, cannot be done with this stuff, hands would end up like wearing hash gloves.
Third, it's available in different parts of Spain and the price is not that bad, like 6€ a gram, which means it's produced at industrial levels.
Fourth, i've been a regular visitor in the Rif from 1984-2010, and never seen anything like this, definitely is a new method with new strains. Seems like lots of things happenned these last years over there.
Fifth, i cannot imagine how that resin can be dry sifted, it'd be stuck to the mesh, suggesting other way of extraction, such ice. Perhaps a new method with solvents?
And more subtle differences. Maybe is just that, low quality hash improved with hashoil.

Beating a lot the bad hash is an old moroccan trick. For the following fifteen minutes after the beat it will look gooey, warm and easy to shape. Then it'll became rock hard. Done in bricks is the (almost) extinct soapbar, and the burnt plastic taste prolly comes from the bag of brown tape that holds the pollen while beaten.
After all, quality is proportionate to how much you beat the plant, and at the end of the day every plant gets beaten as much as it can be.