How Lebanese Hashish Is Made

Hashish

How Lebanese Hashish Is Made

		A look inside the room where several hundred to several thousand pounds of marijuana plants are dried during the warm autumn months.
A table is used first, to allow two or more people to work simultaneously so they can complete this first handling of the bulk of the plants as speedily as possible. The worker can apply the greatest pressure to the rubbing of the plants, with an ingenious tool and, literally, push them through the metal net. Most of the stems and seeds are eliminate at this stage.
		After the first sieving where the stems and seeds are eliminate, the process continues by the same principle of sieving through a smaller size mesh.
At least three or four different size sieves are used in order to separate the plant material from the hashish powder. Any powder that doesn't pass through the screen is set aside. As the mesh of the sieve gets smaller, the powder set aside gets more potent.
		The skilled worker performs the task (with extraordinary speed) of transforming the plant into the finest quality hashish powder. The final sieve only allows top quality powder to pass through.
All grades of powder are collected and separately placed under a large amount of pressure in a process known as pressing. After pressing the hashish powder becomes the product known as Blond Lebanese.

Note About Lebanese Hashish

The high quality Lebanese hashish available in Lebanon is very good. But the Lebanese hashish available in most areas of the world is not very potent, as far as hashish goes.

It is usually gold (blond leb) red (red leb) or brown (brown leb). The darker colors come from older plants that were allowed to mature before harvest.

If you break a piece off and look closely, you can usually see the small resin glands. This goes for most hash made by using the sieve process mentioned above.

Using the method described above, 100 pounds of marijuana was passed through 4 screens.
The yield was about
1.0 pound of premium hashish.
1.5 pounds of 2nd grade hashish.
3.5 pounds of 3rd grade hashish.
6.0 pounds of 4th grade hashish.

Starting with 100 pounds of marijuana yielded 12 pounds of hashish (a 12% return). Yields usually vary between 10-20% when sieving. Lower grade hashish is sold but the premium hashish is kept by the producers and used personally, or sold at an extremely high price.

Because of the high price and limited amount produced, hashish of this quality rarely leaves the country where it was produced. Unless you know someone who imports or produces hashish, if you want high quality, you will have to produce it yourself.

The sieve process is one of two ancient methods of producing hashish. See how to make hashish for information about producing your own hashish by sieving, and using other methods.

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