New Grower HASHISH! by Robert Connell Clarke

[Muddy]

If anyone has read Marijuana Botany then you are familiar with the work of Robert Connell Clarke. A friend and member here, Oldman, was kind enough to loan me his copy of HASHISH! I've been reading a little bit a day for the past couple week and am total fascinated by this book and thought I'd share a little of it in this thread. It's a nearly 400 page opus covering every aspect of hash from it's origins through various manufacturing techniques. I've already learned a lot of new things and have had some misconceptions corrected. As I continue to read through it I'll try and post some things I think the members will be interested in.

 

[Nelson]

I will be reading along your posts from the book. Sounds interesting.

If anyone has read Marijuana Botany then you are familiar with the work of Robert Connell Clarke. A friend and member here, Oldman, was kind enough to loan me his copy of HASHISH! I've been reading a little bit a day for the past couple week and am total fascinated by this book and thought I'd share a little of it in this thread. It's a nearly 400 page opus covering every aspect of hash from it's origins through various manufacturing techniques. I've already learned a lot of new things and have had some misconceptions corrected. As I continue to read through it I'll try and post some things I think the members will be interested in.

 

[Muddy]

Discovering Euphoric Properties

If prehistoric humans tried to rub resin from their hands that accumulated during seed gathering, the resin would have formed a lump of crude hashish, a fragrant mass that at some time, probably enticed a gatherer to eat. Or possibly, food gathers would unintentionally consume bracts and resin while eating the seeds, or simply consumed whole floral clusters filled with seeds rather than individually separating seeds. No one is certain whether early hunter-gatherers divided labor along gender lines. Accepting that a division of labor - men hunting, women gathering - is ancient, then women were the likely gatherers who discovered the euphoriant properties of the resin.

 

[Eschatos]

let me sub this:smoke:

 

[Muddy]

Hashish as an inhalant

There are many early references to the breathing of Cannabis smoke. Always, Cannabis was burned in an open vessel or censer rather than being smoked in a pipe or rolled into a cigarette (joint). In the Chitral Valley of northern Pakistan, nomads place pieces of hashish on coals near the edge of a charcoal brazier and breath the vapors and smoke through a hollow reed or a roll of paper. In the deserts of Afghanistan hashish is roasted on a rock heated by fire and the vapors are inhaled through a hollow stick. Water is held in the mouth and the smoker leans over the hot stone as he inhales, forcing smoke to bubble through the water in his mouth as it does in a water pipe.

 

[Muddy]

Eating Cannabis

When cannabis is eaten, THC, the active ingredient, actually is changed into another compound called 11-hydroxy-THC, which has differing and more powerful effects than THC. Since eating hashish induces a lethargic state and visions that persist for hours, the high is not as manageable as that produced by smoking. The idle rich and the hopelessly indigent had the time to eat hashish and lie about all day in a dream state, but when eaten, its effects are too strong and last far too long to be practical for people who worked every day. Smoking hashish produces effects that are shorter acting and easier to control, thus smoking fits more easily into the lives of working people. Much more hashish was consumed by many more people once hashish was smoked rather than just eaten and, today, smoking is many times more popular worldwide than eating.

 

[Bandit]

Sweet info Muddy! I love it, keep it coming.


~bandit

 

[Joe Dirt]

Great info! Thanks Muddy. :thumbs:

 

[mattinuk3]

loving these snippets!

 

[spelsylver]

really digging the info...keep em coming muddy!