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Hash comes from the word hashish which means “grass” in Arabic. It is a concentrated form of cannabis that has been around for a long time. Indians have known how to make hash for centuries. In fact, they rubbed cannabis with their hands until the friction and heat coated their hands with the plant’s resin. Then, they rolled the resin into balls called “charas.”
Nowadays most cannabis concentrates are in the form of oils made with solvents. Others are made by squeezing cannabis parts between hot plates to make rosin extracts. However, OG connoisseurs still have a sweet tooth for some of the more traditional non-solvent hashes. The two ways to make them involve manually separating trichomes with the dry sift and ice water extraction techniques.
How To Make Dry Sift Hash
Dry sifting is relatively simple. You just need weed and different sized micron screens.
Starting Materials
There are boxes that have several different sized screens on top of each other to make the dry sifting process simple. The screen sizes get smaller as you move downwards.
If you have no box, you can just use different sized screens. Just make sure to have something like a large piece of paper to catch the sifted materials with. Fold the piece of paper and move the sifted materials to the next screen or to where you plan on storing them.
Step 1: Run Through First Screen
Using a stiff card, you can brush the plant material back and forth until no more resin is passing through. The first screen is usually the largest so