Blonde Lebanse Hash Balls

Blonde Lebanse Hash Balls is labelled as blonde Lebanese hash and listed as hash balls. Sensi Seeds names Lebanese Blonde and Lebanese Red as Lebanese hash types that are popular with hash smokers worldwide.

Blonde next to red

The Sensi Seeds guide to hash types lists Red Lebanese among the dry-sift varieties, the family that also holds Moroccan, Afghan and Pakistani hash. Al-Monitor quotes a Bekaa grower who explains the Red Lebanese name by the colour of his land: a red-brown soil. The red name was already a trade term in 1985, when, according to a Reuters report that the Christian Science Monitor published, Bekaa growers were selling “Lebanese red”.

The Bekaa Valley and Lebanese hash-making

Sensi Seeds describes the Bekaa Valley as the traditional hub of hash-making and says most of Lebanon’s high-quality hashish is made there. Wikipedia agrees that the Bekaa is Lebanon’s best-known place for growing cannabis.

Al-Mabroukeh, the blessed plant

In the Bekaa the plant has been in use for centuries under the name Al-Mabroukeh, meaning “the blessed plant” according to Sensi Seeds. Traditionally, it says, cannabis served as a form of payment, formed part of wedding dowries and was offered freely to guests.

Strength first, then cooking

Health Canada places hash in its high-THC extract category and suggests that first-time users leave the category alone. Our six-step recipe for hash butter walks through the cooking. Because the liver processes eaten THC, the effects of an edible arrive later and linger longer than those of smoking. For edibles, Health Canada points to products with 2.5 mg of THC or under.