191 lines
12 KiB
Plaintext
191 lines
12 KiB
Plaintext
666/666/666/666/666/666/666/666/666/666/666/666/666/666/666/666
|
|
666 * 666
|
|
666 "The Modern Moroccan" * 666
|
|
666 (Reprint from High Times July '88) * 666
|
|
666 * 666
|
|
666 Typed up: The Omen (Really?) ***** 666
|
|
666 * 666
|
|
666/666/666/666/666/666/666/666/666/666/666/666/666/666/666/666
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
For more than 100 years the Moroccan government has allowed (ignored) kif
|
|
cultivation near the pine-covered crest of the otherwise barren Rif Mountains,
|
|
in a limited area closely surrounding the village of Ketama. However, the
|
|
industry has grown in the past 10 years and farms now nearly cover all the upper
|
|
mountain ranges and much lowland as far as 75 miles from the once quiet Ketama.
|
|
Fifteen years ago less than 500 sqaure miles were under hashish cultivation.
|
|
Before hashish cultivation, kif cultivation used only approximatly 500 sqware
|
|
miles. Now, cultivation covers 10,000 square miles and nearly every terraced
|
|
field with a source of water is filled with kif plants from spring to late
|
|
summer. Hashish is the only major product of the region and it is one of the
|
|
only crops that will grow here. If the incredible tonnage of hashish produced
|
|
and its comparatively high wholesale market value are used as indicators, it
|
|
appears that hashish must be Morocco's number one export.
|
|
|
|
Most of the kif is harvested in late July and early August when the
|
|
weather turns hottest and driest. The plants change from medium green to golden
|
|
yellow as they begin to wilt and die in the baking sun. Some plants in well
|
|
irrigated fields remain green longer and are left until mid-September. Moroccan
|
|
farmers don't wait for the resin to build up on the flowers like sinsemilla
|
|
farmers do. All of these plants are completely seeded. Rather, the Moroccan
|
|
farmer decided to harvest when the plants run out of water and begin to die.
|
|
The longer the water holds out, the longer the plants have to mature, and the
|
|
more potent the resins become andf the taller the plants. Unfortunatly, chemical
|
|
fertilizers are now commonly and extensivly used to increase yield on exhausted
|
|
land and absolutly every farmer agrees that chemical fertilizers produce
|
|
inferior taste, smell and high, and are not as sticky either. Now that farmers
|
|
are only growing for resin and are not growing the whole plant for kif, the
|
|
genetics are rapidly declining. Now, unselected seeds from inferior plants are
|
|
what everyone uses for planting. Old time kif farmers had a close personal
|
|
relationship with thier crops when they were growing for flowers and not just
|
|
for resin.
|
|
|
|
The single stalks from one to eight feet in lenght are bundled for
|
|
transport to the home compund where they are laid on hot tin roofs to dry in the
|
|
sun for about 5 days. After they are fairly crisp the bundles are stacked in the
|
|
cool shade inside of thier homes and stored for one to six months until the
|
|
resins are collected for hashish production. Dry weight yield for plants is
|
|
approximatly 10 grams per square foot, 100 grams per sqaure meter.
|
|
|
|
Resin collection is very simply performed by stretching a single layer of
|
|
nylon scarf material across the mouth of a large plastic wash tub. The entire
|
|
plants are covered with a sheet of plastic and flailed with a stick over the
|
|
tub. The large stems are thrown away and the crushed plant material is rubbed
|
|
back and forth across the cloth sieve. The coarse plant debris stays behind
|
|
while the resin glands, powdered plant material, dust and dirt falls through the
|
|
seieve and is collected in the wash tub. The harder and longer the plant
|
|
material is rubbed on the screen, the more plant material goes through with the
|
|
resin, This process is repeated over and over up to a dozen times until nothing
|
|
but powdered green leaf is coming through the sieve. The first and second
|
|
extractions are mostly resin while the subsequent batches are mostly debris.
|
|
The Moroccans can market slmost any quality of hashish and no resin is wasted
|
|
as you shall see.
|
|
|
|
The first two or three sievings are combined to produce the best
|
|
commercial grade of Moroccan hashish known as "Zero-Zero." the yield from 100
|
|
kilos of dried kif plants is approximatly 2 to 3 kilos (or 2,000 to 3,000 grams)
|
|
of "Zero-Zero" quality hashish. This quality is rarely available on the export
|
|
market ans is usually the BEST quality you will be offered in Morocco. Although,
|
|
with diligent hunting in the farming area it is possible to find higher quality
|
|
(70 to 1000 grams from 100 kilos dry plants), but only in small quantities of
|
|
less than 100 grams. Most exported comercial quality is 5 to 10 kilos hashish
|
|
from 100 kilos of dried plant. We wouldn't smoke it.
|
|
|
|
However, the vast majority of hashish exported from Morocco and found
|
|
across Europe is manufactured from the lower grades of green leafy resin powder.
|
|
Binders are used to make the low grade powder sticky so it can be pressed
|
|
together to look like real nice dark hashish. These sorts of practices are also
|
|
carried out in the Afghan-Pakistani border region, another major supplier of
|
|
hashish to Europe. Binders include butter, bananas, pine tar, plant gums,
|
|
sweetened condensed milk, henna, motor oil, and worst of all, paraffin wax. Up
|
|
to 10% of the weight of commercial hashish can be accounted for by binders such
|
|
as wax. Wax helps poor quality resins stick together like good resin would, and
|
|
when a match is put to it, will keep a flame like superior hashish would. Who
|
|
knows what smoking petrolum wax does to your lungs, but it can't be good for
|
|
you! The idea behind making hashish is to get a stronger, cleaner smoke so you
|
|
consume less impurities, and smoke less in total, than by using crude Marijuana.
|
|
Adding adulterants defeats the purpose, decieves the public, and endangers
|
|
health.
|
|
|
|
A fairly high grade of hashish can be produced from seedy Morrocan kif,
|
|
but only by rigorusly performing the proper techniques as first taught to the
|
|
Moroccans by Mustafa the Algerian. First selected superior plants must be
|
|
cleaned of all leaf to remove any potential impurities. The leaves dont have any
|
|
resin on them anyways and are covered with dust. Then while working over the
|
|
sieve the flowering tops are carefully stripped deom the stems are crushed
|
|
without reducing the to powder. The resin heads are shaken through the cloth by
|
|
slapping the sides of the plastic tub, but the cloth is never touched nor the
|
|
flowers rubbed across it. After shaking, the crushed flowers are dumped to the
|
|
side not brushed off by hand which pushed debris through the screen. These
|
|
crushed flowers are saved for later comercial extraction and another portion of
|
|
flowers is gingerly crushed over the sieve. Only the resin glands and fine dust
|
|
flass through the cloth and is collected from the bottom of the tub. This
|
|
already potent can be further cleaned by lightly rubbing it across the top of a
|
|
double layer or slightly finer scarf material. This allows most of the fine dirt
|
|
and dust to fall though but few of the coarser resin heads. The resin remaining
|
|
on top of the sieve is nearly pure cannabis resin free of most of the dirt and
|
|
plant debris. Pure hashish as it was originally intended to be prepared, is
|
|
easily hard pressed into what the Moroccans call chewing gum.
|
|
|
|
Before resin glands can be smoked the must be pressed into a piece of
|
|
hashish. The Moroccans use hydraulic jacks to press 250 grams comercial pieces.
|
|
"Zero-Zero" powder is simply poured into a cellophane bag and lightly squeezed
|
|
with the press, since it is naturally sticky enough to stay together. This
|
|
produces a yellowish blonde slab. The very best pieces can be hand pressed with
|
|
difficulty. The resins are very dry from baking in the sun so they are not as
|
|
easily to press as higher grade shade-dried resins.
|
|
|
|
Lower grade powders are mixed with adulterants and binders, heated, and
|
|
hammer beaten to blend the ingredients thoroughly before they are squeezed into
|
|
molds under high pressure. A dark reddish to deep brown slab of Modern Morrocan
|
|
is the result, ready for export. Most smokers assume what they are smoking is
|
|
clean hashish free from impurities. In fact, most of it is tainted. The hashish
|
|
manufactures are crafty and it is difficult for the average smoker to detect
|
|
adulterants in hashish. Kif mixed with tobacco is smoked one hit at a time in a
|
|
long wooden-stemmed sibsi pipe with a small red clay bowl. Hashish is smoked in
|
|
the same fashion. However, we rolled thumb diameter joints with three to five
|
|
grams of the best (Personally made "Zero-Zero-Zero-Zero") on a cardboard filter.
|
|
This allowed much faster consumtion and provided the rushes we traveled
|
|
thousands of miles to enjoy.
|
|
|
|
While commerical techniques yield more than 300 grams of mediocre hashish
|
|
per 100 kilos of kif, traditional hashish techniques yield only 100 to 200 grams
|
|
of super clean and pure hashish. Because it is twice as good as thier best, we
|
|
call it "Zero-Zero-Zero-Zero."
|
|
|
|
As an experiment we had 100 kilos of whole, dried Moroccan plants
|
|
completely maicured and cleaned to various components. The breakdown was:
|
|
|
|
15 kilos leaf
|
|
20 kilos stem
|
|
50 kilos seed
|
|
15 kilos flower
|
|
|
|
In morocco, 100 kilos dried plants is really only 15 kilos flowers and
|
|
farmers extract up to 5 to 10 kilos of so-called resin. No wonder the resin
|
|
needs help to stick together! American improved varieties such as Skunk #1 can
|
|
yield up to 70 kilos of pure flowers from 100 kilos of dried plant. There is
|
|
much more resin and the resins can be sinsemilla resins with little dirt or
|
|
dust. That's five to ten times the weight in resin! The older farmers remember
|
|
how to make fine hashish but they cannot get a high enough price for it to make
|
|
it worthwhile to produce. It just isnt worth the twenty to thirty times the
|
|
price to enough connoisseur smokers. The moroccans make much more money by
|
|
selling lesser quality product.
|
|
|
|
the only answer to this dilemma is to make your own hashish. Most smokers
|
|
can't take the time to travel to the third world in search of inexpensive
|
|
marijuana as a source for thier own pieces of hashish. However, along with the
|
|
burgeoning marijuana cultivating industry comes a ready supply of high-grade
|
|
domestically grown cannabis with resin suitble for making hashish. Outdoor
|
|
plants, greenhouse plants, and artifical light plants can all be utilized to
|
|
make high grade hashish.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ending Note: Place silkscreen under your work area while you manicure, package,
|
|
and roll doobies. A piece of black plexiglass or a mirror under the screen makes
|
|
collecting the separated resins easy with a credit card. Correct screen size is
|
|
43 threads to the centimeter, 100-120 to the inch, for most domestically grown
|
|
resin heads. Moroccan because of smaller resin heads requires 60-80 to the
|
|
centimeter, 150-200 to the inch. Also, Zero-Zero orginally got its name from the
|
|
hole size of the silk fabric that was the finest, "00."
|
|
|
|
|
|
===============================================================================
|
|
If you actually get a hold of some fine hash, why don't you give these systems
|
|
a ring, It's a trip...
|
|
|
|
The Celestial Woodlands 713-580-8213
|
|
The Dead Zone 214-522-5321
|
|
The Golden Pyramid 214-250-2230
|
|
|
|
===============================================================================
|
|
|
|
|
|
GATES OF HELL
|
|
+64-9-5757765
|
|
FOR THE LATEST IN
|
|
P/H/C/V/A
|
|
Current Newuser
|
|
PW://ANTIPIG
|