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Weedus - thanks for the detailed info! At least I have some idea what to look for now...

S-t-e-v-e wrote:^If you wan't the "Skuff", aka just loose kief, go to Styx and get the gun powder. I got a gram for much cheaper than 30 euros, somewhere around 12-14ish and I just used it as a bowl topper to add an extra kick of potency to everything I smoked. One gram goes a long way.

I'll add it to the list!

The 30 Euro Skuff was extreme good,it was white ! It realy looked like the pure White Powder you find on good Buds.I guess they needed some Gramms of Weed to make 1 Gram of white powder Skuff so 30 euro is not too expensive i think

By the Way today i learned a way how Moroco Exporters test the Hash of Farmers before they buy it.They roll a sausage from it,then light it up and let it burn until the Point of the Hash-Sausage is burned to Ash.Then they rubb the ash between their fingers,and good Hash-Ash must not leave any residue or black streams.

There was times the Farmers added up to 30% of Goat Shit,Henna Powder or "this glowing sticks which make strong smell,dont know english name" to their Hash.But today the Exporters use this Way to test if the Hash is clean.





Thats the same Way you can test Weed for Brix.Brixed Weed leaves black streams on the Finger when the Ash is rubbed between them.

Kif or Kief is not Skuff.
Kif is a morocon Word for the powdered Weed which is left over after the sieve-production of Hash.Most Resin is beaten out already and it contains very few thc.

Weedus wrote:On Hash its not so easy like at Weed to guess the Quality.
But as generell rule you can say that good Hash must not be stone hard and it should be

You have not tried the Turkish from paradox, it's as tough as old boots but once you do have it broken up (a metal grinder works the best) its a top quality smoke

Hmm i never smoked Turkish Hash

I think one fact is also how much the Hash was heated on Pressing and Cutting.
I know a shop which has the bad behaviour to put a Knife in boiling Water and cut the Hash with it.The Cut Areas are molten then and you can see how the molten Hash came out at top of the Cutline.They use Boiling Water cause it dont leaves black soot on the Hash like a Knife heaten in open Flame...
Thats not good for Quality and the Hash usualy is more Hard then after this procedure.

As a 30 year hash (and not really weed) smoker, I'll throw in my experience..

Hash should be pliable but may not always be in Amsterdam - reason being.. hash has a half-life of 6 months- every six months it will be half as potent. This can be mitigated by sticking it in the freezer which many places do. If it's only been out the freezer a day it'll take a bit of body heat to get it bending.

I'm sure Weedus enjoys smoking the way he does but I find less convoluted methods just as good - hash needs a tiny lick of a lighter to soften and can thus be easily picked apart to put in a pipe or spliff. Pipes are a very economical way to smoke solid - give it a lick of flame, drag however much you want and then stick thumb over to extinguish - might be a bit hot but we're all adults and can suffer it? Pipes with a lid such as a protopipe are ideal. Judicious pipe work can get a very nice long day from 1g.

Good hash will produce grey smoke and will attract a flame in an almost magnetic way. Black smoke and hash that doesn't burn of its own accord will be contaminated or just shit and old.

Think about CSs that seem to have the same hash for a long time - the potency might not be what it was. Some of the less rated shops do have rapidly changing hash menus which will generally be a good sign.

Oh.. and finally some people - me included - find that the blacker the hash the more likely a headache after heavy use. Love a bit of temple ball but could only smoke moroccan all day.

Hope you find and enjoy some great hash - it's the way to go...

Cheers Gronin - was going to go the pipe route anyway, so I guess I'll look for one with a lid. Top pro tip!

gronin wrote:Pipes are a very economical way to smoke solid - give it a lick of flame, drag however much you want and then stick thumb over to extinguish - might be a bit hot but we're all adults and can suffer it? Pipes with a lid such as a protopipe are ideal. Judicious pipe work can get a very nice long day from 1g.

That's why I don't understand why people say they mix cannabis with tobacco because they're 'cheap', but go on to say that they put anywhere from 0.5g to 1g into a joint. For me that's a hell of a lot of lovely smoke that now isn't going to be very nice, adulterated as it is with inferior substance. I bought a gram of Satsuma on Testing Tuesday and another of Super Silver Haze the next day, and they served as a backdrop for the various hashes I tried out in my Very Basic Travel Pipe (£2 down the market, including a packet of gauzes) over the next two days. Towards the end of Thursday it was almost like hard work finishing the SSH in my pipe on its own before heading off; it felt like the canna equivalent of gulping one's drink, and not something I'd normally do. But in joints it would have been gone in a matter of hours.

The Very Basic Travel Pipe doesn't have a lid, but I use a coin for the purpose. Ideally a British 5p, as it reminds me of the old Dutch 25 cent coins. Alternately, I have a tiny, ancient snuff tin that I use as a stash box that also saves the skin on one's thumbs.