Manufacturing and Quality of Hash

2009.04.03

Potency and purity are the main issues when it comes to something like either cannabis or hash. Whether you have a thing called adulterants which cheapen the grade, or you are someone who is trying to get out a quality product with as little impurities as possible begs the real question –quality.

There is so much trafficking going on out there that good, pure product is almost impossible to come by unless you know someone who is doing the processing personally.

For example, as mentioned before there is a thing called adulterants, which are bits and pieces present in the product like leaf matter or other foreign, toxic substances that can be introduced into the mix that will reduce the THC content of hash from the 15-20% and hash oil even more. The point is that when you add the real adulterant, which is greed, you get a far more inferior product because some is making more on the good money you pay them by giving you less pure product.

Granted, different plants produce different highs, which result from different levels of resin and therefore different chemical presences that produce different kinds of highs, from a‘body stone” to a “head stone” that are reflective of the type of plant and the chemical, and processing procedures that apply.

A good chunk of hash is supposed to be softer and gets harder with time and the oxidization that occurs. It also has different colors ranging form black to reddish brown to blond to green. The greenish tinge indicates that it has more impurities like a low quality leaf, and a yellow tint can shoe a pollen influence.

To determine the quality of the hash, the smoke and the ashes should be light gray or almost white. That is a good sign that you have a good product. If you find that the smoke is hard to inhale and in the ash, there is a trace of hard cinders, then you probably have a product that is compromised with adulterants.

What I mean by adulterants is what the product is cut with. With cut hash, then the look and feel is different, in that it’s less pliable, soft. When the pot leaves are burned there should be in the ash a hard “cinder; where the ash should be soft and white.
 Adulterants can be anything from waste plant materials, (materials discarded after processing0 to oils of varying kinds to actual soap, giving the product a perfumed smell to mask the fact that the product is bad.

Beware of the low quality product that is out there, for instance having to inhale more of it so that you have to keep buying more - the effect, when you smoke it should be quick and noticeable, and not leaving you wanting more shortly after. It always happens that you get some bad apples in the mix, and when you do, articles like this are written so that you know.