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Kief is what you use to make hash out of. ~smiles~ A lot of people keep varied screens in their storage and rolling boxes and, after a while, remove them to get to the fine dust of trichome heads and fine plant material at the bottom.
There are several ways to make hash. One way is to simply get several, progressively smaller, screens and rub your plant material on them.
"Bubbler" screens are sold too, which require, in addition to the screens, a 5 gal. bucket, a drill, a paint/texture mixture attachment for the drill, and a bunch of ice water.
Others use the tried and true "old coffee grinder" method of running dried plant matter through an old coffee grinder. The trichome heads and oils stick to the interior of the coffee grinder (some to the lid. On mine, at least, it all sticks to the bottom), while the plant material gets powdered.
Here, (Colorado) *everyone* turns their sugar trim and regular trim into hash, so hash is cheap. Hash OIL though, is NOT so cheap, so I am experimenting with different methods to obtain it.
So far, the easiest has been to grind up all the plant matter into powder, then wet it down generously with food-grade alcohol (Everclear), and let it seep through a coffee filter. Then allow it to air for a day or two so that the alcohol can evaporate.
( I prefer using the Everclear because the idea of PURPOSEFULLY using butane or acetone as a solvent for something I am going to put into my body gives me the heeby-jeebies. Using Isopropyl Alcohol is not much better...at least with the Everclear, it IS intended for drinking.)
At any rate, kief, hash, hash oil, etc., are more potent than just bud. It is not plant material (leaves, flowers, etc.) that gets you high or kills pain; it is the trichomes. ALL of the good stuff, like the THC, CBDs, CBLs, etc., are found in the trichomes, NOT the regular plant cells.
So putting a pin-head size amount of pure hash or hash oil into your system tends to have the same effect as smoking an entire joint or large bowl. It also tends to be smoother and more pleasant, as it does not have any of the plant materials that add harshness, such as chlorophyll or cellulose.
Peace,
Bak Alchisk
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