Rob Clarke, author of Marijuana Botany, illuminates the world of hashish from growing the marijuana plant to collecting its valuable resin and making hashish, a concentrated form of marijuana’s active ingredients. His study demystifies hashish and debunks long held misconceptions.

Clarke traces the history of hashish and surveys both ancient and contemporary hashish-using cultures.  In clear, understandable terms he discusses the ingredients that make up hashish and the biochemistry of its psychoactive constituents and their actions on the human body.  Readers learn to recognise high quality and low quality hashish and different ways of consuming it.  Smoking techniques and cooking recipes emphasize healthful means of ingestion for recreational and medicincal users.

After depicting the how-to of traditional manufacturing methods, Hashish describes and illustrates innovative and high-tech production techniques that improve on traditional practices.  Readers learn how to combine simple tools with a basic understanding of potency - which Clarke imparts in everyday terms - to perform the new art of making extremely potent hashish.  The author concludes by showing how kitchenware found in any home can be used in novel ways to make hashish for personal consumption.

An excellent book and a recommended buy / present for any cannabis/hashish enthusiast!

387 pages