by Dianna Benjamin – December 22, 2021

Hash, also known as hashish, is one of the oldest concentrates around, and cannabis enthusiasts today continue to enjoy the added potency it brings to their consumption experience.

If you want to make a solventless concentrate that’s been popular for millennia, keep reading. We’ll give you step-by-step instructions on how to make your own hash easily.

Hash (short for the Arabic word for grass, ‘hashish’) is a solventless concentrate created from dried cannabis trichomes. Trichomes are tiny, semi-translucent, mushroom-shaped appendages that grow over cannabis plants, but they’re mainly concentrated in buds.

Cannabis plants store cannabinoids in trichomes, which is why they’re so valuable for consumers. If you can catch trichomes as they fall from your buds, you can make hash, a dense, brick-like, copper-colored mass of resin.

Other forms of cannabis concentrates are readily available at most dispensaries (such as wax, shatter, liver resin, sauce, rosin, and more), and it’s easy enough to consume them. But here are four benefits to making hash yourself (instead of relying on someone else’s concentrates):

Forget about butane and vacuum ovens. You can get a super potent concentrate by making hash yourself.

Some people rub buds between their fingers, painstakingly collecting resin one flower at a time on their fingertips. The resin is then transferred from fingers into a ball. This type of hash is called charas. Others use a more modern agitation technique where water, ice, and cannabis are combined and stirred to separate trichomes from buds.

Close-up view of trichomes on cannabis flower. Trichomes are collected and formed into hash through various extraction techniques. Source: Unsplash.com

We’ve compiled a list of the two simplest ways to make hash even newcomers to concentrates can accomplish.

Hash is versatile and one of the cleanest concentrates around. Here are some of the most popular ways to consume hash:

Hash is a concentrate, so consume it safely. You only need a small amount to experience its effects. Start slow to avoid getting too high. Remember, you can always smoke more if needed!

Note how your body responds to your first dose of hash and adjust accordingly, but wait at least two hours before consuming more.

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