Kush can be Hash but not all Hash is Kush?

**Valentina** · 18-04-21, 08:42 PM

So... According to the internet, "Hash" is an Arabic rooted word meaning "grass", and apparently in some ways it's also the root word for "assasin". Can't say I buy into that, anyway.

And "Hash", is pressed "Trichome heads". Yep, I am fine with that. Different method of collection, different processing methods yields different kinds of concentrates, rosin, shatter, all that. Cool, no probs.

So back in the day, "Hash" is made from strains from the "Hindu Kush" region, with strains such as "Afghan". Afghanistan, the country, is just north of Pakistan, and even has a small section of the "Afghanistanian" national boarder that is shared with China.

Yes, they are THAT FAR OUT IN THE EAST.

Right, so WHAT is MOROCCO doing in the picture, being on the "wrong side" of Africa, as in, over on the other side of the African CONTINENT, producing "hash"???

Sure, Morocco probably have their native land races etc, but in that case is the "hash" from Morocco still "Kush"?

And if "Hash" is "just" compressed trichome heads, presumably we could have Thai "hash", Hawaiian "hash"?

Can't think straight anymore... I am desperately looking for a surefire strain that welds the user to couchlock and brings on a monumental munchie. Afghan Kush, Black Domina have been mentioned in the past, I am just looking for more ideas.

**Phytoplankton** · 19-04-21, 05:09 AM

You're trying to make sense of colloquial terms that mean different things in different places. Hash, in most places, is just the resin (trichromes and pollen) of the flowering bud, and has no strain or location associated with it. In India hash was made by putting someone in a leather suit and running them through the flowering marijuana fields waving their arms. Then the resin would be scrapped off the leather suit, rolled into a ball and later pressed into bricks. In the US, Kush is generally a term for Cannabis Indica and not really assocaited with hash at all. As far as couch lock/munchie weed, most of the high THC indica strains that you allow the trichromes to go mostly amber on, will fit that bill!

**Valentina** · 19-04-21, 12:27 PM

Originally Posted by Phytoplankton

You're trying to make sense of colloquial terms that mean different things in different places. ... As far as couch lock/munchie weed, most of the high THC indica strains that you allow the trichromes to go mostly amber on, will fit that bill!

Thanks, now that makes a lot more sense!!

And thanks for the tip about high THC Indicas!!

One Love!

**Phytoplankton** · 19-04-21, 05:01 PM

As far as the Hash/assassin connection, it is true. The word “assassin” derives from a secretive murder cult in the 11th and 12th centuries called the “Hashishin”, meaning “hashish eaters”. Another word, "thug", has Indian origins. The Thuggee cult was a large network of criminals who would befriend travelers on the main roads, then would later rob/kill them, in Sanskrit thuggee means deceiver.