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Hash, Hashish, Hashishi (not to be confused with News Admin Hashishi at marijuana.com), or sometimes also referred to as Resin, is a preparation of cannabis composed of the compressed trichomes collected from the Cannabis plant. (Note: resin more commonly refers to a sticky, dark colored honey-like substance that is marijuana resin, which builds up in a joint as it is smoked, or in a pipe or bong as multiple bowls are loaded). It contains the same active ingredients as cannabis (but in higher concentrations) and produces the same psychoactive effects.

Its color can vary from green, black, reddish brown, or most commonly light to dark brown.

It is consumed in much the same way as Cannabis buds, often being smoked in joints mixed with tobacco or Cannabis buds, or in smoking pipes, or vaporized. It can also be eaten or used as an ingredient of food (baked into cookies or cakes, or added to stews and chocolate).

It can also be ignited by cigarette coals or other means and placed inside a container. The smoke that collects inside can then be inhaled. Dabous or Khabour (stick in Arabic) is a North African technique. Bottle tokes or BT's is a similar method found in Canada and also in Russia, where a piece of hash is applied to the end of a lit cigarette, then help in a water bottle untill the hash has formed a vapor/smoke mixture, then inhaled.

Hash can also be placed on very hot pieces of metal and the resulting smoke inhaled. Hot knives is a method that involves heating up knives on a stove and then crushing a little ball of the hash between them and inhaling the released smoke with a straw. Hash cones is a method where a piece of hash is attached to metal wire and then heated.

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