Real Moroccan Imported Beldia Hash

The name Real Moroccan Imported Beldia Hash pairs a country with a plant: beldia is what Wikipedia’s Cannabis in Morocco page calls Morocco’s traditional cannabis variety. This hash, sold as Moroccan hash and one of the styles in our hash range, is weighed out at 1 g, 3.5 g, 7 g, 14 g or 28 g.

Moroccan words behind the name

• Beldia (also beldiya): a local “early” variety, in Wikipedia’s description, that gets by on less water than plants from imported seed and goes in the ground from February.
• Chira: a second Moroccan word for hash besides hashish, per Sensi Seeds, which adds that Moroccans typically smoke it blended with tobacco.
• Sebsi: the Moroccan pipe for kif or hash blended with tobacco; Sensi Seeds describes a long, slim stem and a bowl of clay or copper.

From local kif to hash for export

Production stayed small, and most of it was smoked as kif, until the wave of young Western tourists in the 1960s and 1970s, Wikipedia says. Growers, the page adds, answered the new demand from tourists and outside buyers by scaling up from artisanal work to larger operations. The page records competing legends about how hash-making itself began there; the widely held view puts it at the peak of Western tourist influence.

Hash made for international trade on a large scale is thought to date from the 1960s, in Wikipedia’s Hashish article; before the first Hippie Trail travellers, it says, a few small Lebanese pieces were all the hashish to be found in Morocco.

The Rif, a production centre since the 18th century

Morocco remains one of the leading hashish producers, according to Wikipedia, with cultivation long rooted in a few regions, the northern Rif above all. In Wikipedia’s telling, small plots, gardens and orchards held the crop from the 16th century, grown for local use, and two centuries later the far northwest was a recognized centre of production. Today most Moroccan cannabis comes from the Rif, says Sensi Seeds.

Taking Moroccan hash slowly

Smoked cannabis can take as long as 30 minutes to peak, Health Canada notes, and it lists hash among the high-THC extracts it suggests new or occasional users avoid. For pipes and other ways to smoke it, see our hash smoking guide.