Honey blonde moroccan hash

Labelled honey blonde and Moroccan, this hash is sold under the name of a style that Sensi Seeds files as dry-sift: dried plant material beaten or sieved over fine mesh to collect trichome powder.

Sandy gold to oily black

Processing decides how Moroccan hash looks and feels, Sensi Seeds says. Sandy gold sits at one end of the colour range and oily black at the other, with reddish brown between. A piece can be brittle and dry, or soft and fudge-like. Sensi Seeds adds that the powder can be formed into balls, sticks or bricks; heat applied during pressing coaxes oil out of some trichomes, which binds the powder into one sticky solid.

From Rif foothills to powder

Farmers in the Rif foothills usually harvest late, from about the end of October into November, Sensi Seeds says. Several weeks of drying in the shade follow. Then the flowers come off the stems and onto fine cloth over a bucket or tub, a plastic cover goes on, and workers beat the pile softly with hemp stems until resin powder falls into the container below.

Wikipedia’s version: stalks, cloth and a basin

In Wikipedia’s account of the traditional method, autumn-cut stalks spend roughly a month drying indoors. They are then beaten over a fine cloth pulled taut, with a metal basin underneath to catch the trichomes. Each beating is weaker than the last: the first is best, and the second and third are progressively poorer. Sensi Seeds ranks Moroccan sift in that same order.

Loose, pressed or stamped

Wikipedia says the powder is either packed loose or pressed and re-heated again and again into dense slabs. Slabs often bear the producer’s mark: a pattern, a number or an imitation of a commercial logo. The marks follow no steady scheme from season to season. Its Hashish article adds that Moroccan hash sold in 250 g blocks, nicknamed soap bars, led the European market in the 1990s.

How Moroccans smoke it, and a note on strength

In Morocco, Sensi Seeds says, hash is typically smoked mixed with tobacco. On the subject of strength, Health Canada counts hash among the high-THC extracts, and the agency would have complete beginners and rare users give such extracts a wide berth. Our dry sift hash guide covers how sift is made and graded.