What Is Hash Oil

Hashish oil, more commonly called hash oil, is a thick liquid made from dissolving hashish or marijuana in solvents like acetone, alcohol, butane, or petroleum ether.

The resulting liquid is then separated from any plant matter and the solvent is allowed to evaporate. The substance that remains is a concentrated form of cannabis known as hash oil.

The first recorded hashish oil was produced using alcohol as the solvent. In the early 1840's, Peter Squire (a chemist in London, England) extracted 12 ounces of hash oil from 64 ounces (4 pounds) of marijuana.

Hash oil is commonly sold in 1 gram to 5 gram vials made of glass or plastic. Color can range from dark brown to white. The more refined it is, the lighter the color and the higher the potency.

White oil, the most potent and refined type of hashish oil is rarely if ever available. Honey oil, the second most potent and refined form of hash oil is popular because it is fairly easy to make.

Less potent forms of hash oil are green oil, red oil, brown oil, etc. Honey oil looks (and feels) similar to honey, that is where the name comes from.

Hash oil is very thick, and sticks to everything. It ruins clothes. The only thing that will take it off your skin or counter tops is denatured alcohol or a similar solvent.

The stone from high quality hash oil is a very strong and relaxing mind/body experience. It can be almost paralyzing for someone used to smoking marijuana only.

THC Content Of Hash Oil

THC is the primary chemical that produces intoxication when a person uses hash oil, hashish, or marijuana. The THC content of good to excellent hash oil varies from 30% to 80% THC.

The THC content of good commercial grade marijuana available to most users has a THC content of about 5% to 15%. The maximum THC content of premium grade marijuana is about 35%.

How Is Hash Oil Used

The most common method of smoking hash oil is to use the clear plastic tube that is the body of a bic disposable pen. Pull out the end cap, pull out the ink tube, and you have a clear plastic tube.

Then, use something that won't burn or melt, like a pin, straight part of a paper clip, jewelers screw driver, or something similar to dip in the oil. What you want to do is just get a little dab of oil on the bottom 1/8 inch (or less) of whatever it is that you are using.

Heat the oil on the pin or whatever you used by holding it over the burning part of a lit cigarette, without letting them touch. In a few seconds the oil will drop onto the burning cigarette and burn. Hold the end of the tube above the cigarette and suck in the smoke.

After a few tries you will be able to determine how much oil to use without letting any go to waste and how far to keep the plastic tube from the cigarette so it doesn't melt.

For a nicer piece of equipment, take an old tablespoon. Bend the handle so that the handle bends away from the bowl, and then back so that it is pointing up away from the bowl.

Attach the same pen tube to the handle, with some tape, so that the tube points down into the bowl of the spoon. Smear oil into bowl of spoon, and heat spoon from bottom with a candle or something. (This only takes two hands.)

Another technique, if you roll your own cigarettes, is to smear a streak of oil on a cigarette paper, and then roll a cigarette with this paper. Better still, roll it with some marijuana.

Vapor method: put an old knife on a stove burner (use an electric stove; use a gas job at your own risk). Let it get nice and hot (red hot isn't too hot, but of course you don't wanna deform the knife). Get a paper towel tube or similar-size tube and gather everyone around close.

Use an instrument like the one discussed above, to get a little dab of oil, stand ready with the tube, press the instrument (screwdriver, etc) against the hot blade and suck.

Don't take too much; it's got incredible expand properties. The stuff will smoke uncontrollably till it's gone, so make sure everyone gets in their suck without letting too much go to waste (it's good if everyone has their own tube).

Another good way to smoke it is to put a drop of hash oil on top of a bowl of marijuana loaded in a pipe. However you do it, take small hits. The stuff is lethal on your lungs.

To get the most bang for your buck, put about 10 grams in a 13x7 inch brownie pan with your favorite brownie recipe. Be sure to mixed the oil in well. Cut into 1.25 inch squares. If you do it like this, you will get about 50 squares. If you pay $500 for 10 grams of oil, the cost of a square will be $10.

Eat one and have a wonderful night (sex is highly recommended). Eat two or three and become part of your favorite couch for 5 hours or so. Eat 6 or more and find out what heroin is like without having to mess with needles.

How To Buy Hash Oil

Lighter color hash oil is more refined and potent than darker stuff. There is very good hash oil that is dark brown-green in color but lighter colored honey oil is recommended for first time oil users.

If it is available, try to buy stuff that is similar in color to the golden honey sold at most food stores. It should have an appealing hash-like smell, but not quite as nice as good hash.

--- If in doubt, buy a small amount and try taking three good tokes held in as long as possible (using the bic pen method).
--- If you are used to smoking marijuana only, this should get you off for a really good 15-30 minute buzz.
--- If you are not sure (after taking a few tokes) that the stuff you have is very potent, it's not good hash oil, don't buy anymore.

The premium grade hydroponic marijuana produced by many home growers is approaching the THC content of low and medium grades of hash oil and hashish. If a reliable source of good hash oil is hard to find, consider growing high potency hydroponic marijuana yourself. You can consume what you grow as marijuana, or use it in the production of honey oil.

Weed Oil

Do not buy hash oil that is very dark in color unless you know what you are doing. It might be a product that is sometimes sold on the street as weed oil. Weed oil is garbage that should cost less than weed. Avoid it like the bubonic plague.

Weed oil looks like dark hash oil and it does contain some THC. Users with limited experience might think they are getting the real thing. Therefore, if you are not familiar with hash oil, you should avoid buying any type of oil that is very dark in color.

If you are familiar with hash oil, you will know weed oil by its dark color and un-hashy smell. Real hash oil has a familiar smell that any user will remember immediately, even after years. Weed oil smells nothing like hash oil.

It produces a very mild buzz, so users are forced to use large amounts (including large amounts of the solvent that was used to make it). Because real hash oil is so potent, very little is needed to get really stoned (only a small amount of solvent is ingested).

Hashish

Over 350 very well researched pages about the history, consumption, production, and other aspects of the substance known as hashish. The book is easy to read and the only book to get if you are interested in making, using, or learning about hashish.

The first 300 pages thoroughly trace hash history, methods of consumption, pressing, storing, and cultures. The last 50 pages go into great detail about traditional and modern methods of making, hashish.

Well illustrated with dozens if not hundreds of black and white images and graphs, with 16 full page, full color images. Appealing to hashish and marijuana users and history lovers.

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