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666 "The Modern Moroccan" * 666
666 (Reprint from High Times July '88) * 666
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666 Typed up: The Omen (Really?) ***** 666
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For more than 100 years the Moroccan government has allowed (Ignored) kif
cultivation near the pine-covered crest of the otherwise barren Rif
Mountains, in a limited area closely surrounding the village of Ketama.
However, the industry has grown in the past 10 years and farms now nearly
cover all the upper mountain ranges and much lowland as far as 75 miles from
the once quiet Ketama. Fifteen years ago less than 500 sqaure miles were
under hashish cultivation. Before hashish cultivation, kif cultivation used
only approximatly 500 sqware miles. Now, cultivation covers 10,000 square
miles and nearly every terraced field with a source of water is filled with
kif plants from spring to late summer. Hashish is the only major product of
the region and it is one of the only crops that will grow here. If the
incredible tonnage of hashish produced and its comparatively high wholesale
market value are used as indicators, it appears that hashish must be
Morocco's number one export.
Most of the kif is harvested in late July and early August when the weather
turns hottest and driest. The plants change from medium green to golden
yellow as they begin to wilt and die in the baking sun. Some plants in well
irrigated fields remain green longer and are left until mid-September.
Moroccan farmers don't wait for the resin to build up on the flowers like
sinsemilla farmers do. All of these plants are completely seeded. Rather,
the Moroccan farmer decided to harvest when the plants run out of water and
begin to die. The longer the water holds out, the longer the plants have to
mature, and the more potent the resins become and the taller the plants.
Unfortunatly, chemical fertilizers are now commonly and extensivly used to
increase yield on exhausted land and absolutly every farmer agrees that
chemical fertilizers produce inferior taste, smell and high, and are not as
sticky either.
Now that farmers are only growing for resin and are not growing the whole
plant for kif, the genetics are rapidly declining. Now, unselected seeds
from inferior plants are what everone uses for planting. Old time kif
farmers had a close personal relationship with thier crops when they were
growing for flowers and not just for resin. The single stalks from one to
eight feet in lenght are bundled for transport to the home compund where
they are laid on hot tin roofs to dry in the sun for about 5 days. After
they are fairly crisp the bundles are stacked in collected for hashish
production. Dry weight yield for plants is approximatly 10 grams per square
foot, 100 grams per sqaure meter.
Resin collection is very simply performed by stretching a single layer of
nylon scarf material across the mouth of a large plastic wash tub. The
entire plants are covered with a sheet of plastic and flailed with a stick
over the tub. The large stems are thrown away and the crushed plant material
is rubbed back and forth across the cloth sieve. The coarse plant debris
stays behind while the resin glands, powdered plant material, dust and dirt
falls through the seieve and is collected in the wash tub. The harder and
longer the plant material is rubbed on the screen, the more plant material
goes through with the resin, This process is repeated over and over up to a
dozen times until nothing but powdered green leaf is coming through the
sieve. The first and second extractions are mostly resin while the
subsequent batches are mostly debris.
The Moroccans can market almost any quality of hashish and no resin is
wasted as you shall see. The first two or three sievings are combined to
produce the best commercial grade of Moroccan hashish known as "Zero-Zero."
the yield from 100 kilos of dried kif plants is approximatly 2 to 3 kilos
(or 2,000 to 3,000 grams) of "Zero-Zero" quality hashish. This quality is
rarely available on the export market ans is usually the BEST quality you
will be offered in Morocco. Although, with diligent hunting in the farming
area it is possible to find higher quality (70 to 1000 grams from 100 kilos
dry plants), but only in small quantities of less than 100 grams. Most
exported comercial quality is 5 to 10 kilos hashish from 100 kilos of dried
plant. We wouldnt smoke it.
However, the vast majority of hashish exported from Morocco and found across
Europe is manufactured from the lower grades of green leafy resin powder.
Binders are used to make the low grade powder sticky so it can be pressed
together to look like real nice dark hashish. These sorts of practices are
also carried out in the Afghan-Pakistani border region, another major
supplier of hashish to Europe. Binders include butter, bananas, pine tar,
plant gums, sweetened condensed milk, henna, motor oil, and worst of all,
paraffin wax. Up to 10% of the weight of commercial hashish can be accounted
for by binders such as wax. Wax helps poor quality resins stick together
like good resin would, and when a match is put to it, will keep a flame like
superior hashish would. Who knows what smoking petrolum wax does to your
lungs, but it can't be good for you! The idea behind making hashish is to
get a stronger, cleaner smoke so you consume less impurities, and smoke less
in total, than by using crude Marijuana. Adding adulterants defeats the
purpose, decieves the public, and endangers health.
A fairly high grade of hashish can be produced from seedy Morrocan kif, but
only by rigorusly performing the proper techniques as first taught to the
Moroccans by Mustafa the Algerian. First selected superior plants must be
cleaned of all leaf to remove any potential impurities. The leaves dont have
any resin on them anyways and are covered with dust. Then while working over
the sieve the flowering tops are carefully stripped then the stems are
crushed without reducing the to powder. The resin heads are shaken through
the cloth by slapping the sides of the plastic tub, but the cloth is never
touched nor the flowers rubbed across it. After shaking, the crushed flowers
are dumped to the side not brushed off by hand which pushed debris through
the screen. These crushed flowers are saved for later comercial extraction
and another portion of flowers is gingerly crushed over the sieve. Only the
resin glands and fine dust flass through the cloth and is collected from the
bottom of the tub. This already potent can be further cleaned by lightly
rubbing it across the top of a double layer or slightly finer scarf
material. This allows most of the fine dirt and dust to fall though but few
of the coarser resin heads. The resin remaining on top of the sieve is
nearly pure cannabis resin free of most of the dirt and plant debris.
Pure hashish as it was originally intended to be prepared, is easily hard
pressed into what the Moroccans call chewing gum. Before resin glands can be
smoked the must be pressed into a piece of hashish. The Moroccans use
hydraulic jacks to press 250 grams comercial pieces. "Zero-Zero" powder is
simply poured into a cellophane bag and lightly squeezed with the press,
since it is naturally sticky enough to stay together. This produces a
yellowish blonde slab. The very best pieces can be hand pressed with
difficulty. The resins are very dry from baking in the sun so they are not
as easily to press as higher grade shade-dried resins. Lower grade powders
are mixed with adulterants and binders, heated, and hammer beaten to blend
the ingredients thoroughly before they are squeezed into molds under high
pressure. A dark reddish to deep brown slab of Modern Morrocan is the
result, ready for export.
Most smokers assume what they are smoking is clean hashish free from
impurities. In fact most of it is tainted. The hashish manufactures are
crafty and it is difficult for the average smoker to detect adulterants in
hashish. Kif mixed with tobacco is smoked one hit at a time in a long wooden
-stemmed sibsi pipe with a small red clay bowl. Hashish is smoked in the sam
fashion. However, we rolled thumb diameter joints with three to five grams
of the best (Personally made "Zero-Zero-Zero-Zero") on a cardboard filter.
This allowed much faster consumption and provided the rushes we traveled
thousands of miles to enjoy.
While commerical techniques yield more than 3,00 grams of mediocre hashish
per 100 kilos of kif, traditional hashish techniques yeild only 100 to 200
grams of super clean and pure hashish. Because it is twice as good as their
best, we call it "Zero-Zero-Zero-Zero." as an experiment we had 100 kilos of
whole, dried Moroccan plants completely maicured and cleaned to various
components. The breakdown was: 15 kilos leaf 20 kilos stem 50 kilos seed 15
kilos flower In morocco, 100 kilos dried plants is really only 15 kilos
flowers and farmers extract up to 5 to 10 kilos of so-called resin. No
wonder the resin needs help to stick together! American improved varieties
such as Skunk #1 can yield up to 70 kilos of pure flowers from 100 kilos of
dried plant. There is much more resin and the resins can be sinsemilla
resins with little dirt or dust. That's five to ten times the weight in
resin!
The older farmers remember how to make fine hashish but they cannot get a
high enough price for it to make it worthwhile to produce. It just isnt
worth the twenty to thirty times the price to enough connoisseur smokers.
The moroccans make much more money by selling lesser quality product. The
only answer to this dilemma is to make your own hashish. Most smokers can't
take the time to travel to the third world in search of inexpensive
marijuana as a source for thier own pieces of hashish. However, along with
the burgeoning marijuana cultivating industry comes a ready supply of high
-grade domestically grown cannabis with resin suitble for making hashish.
Outdoor plants, greenhousr plants, and artifical light plants can all be
utilized to make high grade hashish.
Ending Note:
Place silscreen under your work area while you manicure, package, and roll
doobies. A piece of black plexiglass or a mirror under the screen makes
collecting the separated resins easy with a credit card. Correct screen size
is 43 threads to the centimeter, 100-120 to the inch, for most domestically
grown resin heads. Moroccan because of smaller resin heads requires 60-80 to
the centimeter, 150-200 to the inch. Also, Zero-Zero orginally got its name
from the hole size of the silk fabric that was the finest, "00."
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