The Marocco-story (4)

After three months the kif is ready to be sieved! But usually the farmer is more interested in waiting a little. Kif that has been stored for about a year, is riper and fuller and less 'wild' when sieved. More potent I wouldn't say, but it's absolutely a lot more pleasant to smoke. Compare it to freshly harvested indoor grass, which is also wild, which improves after a week or so of drying and becomes riper, more relaxed and more tasty. Just like wine, the product we produce from our little plant needs time to mature. Usually the farmer will only commence sieving when he is sure he can sell. Sometimes he sells plants, sometimes hash.


Sieving in full motion.	The system is far easier than many imagine.

He needs the seed, so it is important the sieving takes place at home, and he is guaranteed to get back his seeds. He prefers to sell to 'smart asses' for a particular sieving. When he sieves it, and the client agrees with the quality and price, the remaining kif is his. That's not the stuff tourists will take back home, because they usually think it is disposed product. But you will be amazed to see all the things that happen with this kif. It really brings a lot of money to the farmer, which he doesn't get when he sells his plants. How the sieving takes place you can see in these pictures, where me and some locals are sieving at uncle Abd Ali's.

The bowls are made of plastic, the sieve is made of synthetic fabric they usually buy in a local store. It's a strong and very closely woven fabric, so you can only see through when you hold it up against the light. Very fine, but quite strong as well. The fabric is stretched over the bowl and tightened with crumbled up pieces of paper. The bowl is placed inside a big plastic bag, measuring 2-2,5 meter deep. At the bottom, the bag is knotted, because these bags come from a large roll, which allows cutting to measure. Now you grab a bundle of kif, stick it into the bag, while you hold the part where your hand is at the entrance of the bag. The plastic is wrapped around this part of the stalk like a 'handle', so that the bag is completely sealed. The stalk inside the bag is held exactly over the sieve.


And voilá!	That's in the pocket.

Then you use a sturdy stick to hit the bush of kif inside, and only the stalks remain. With one gracious but above all swift movement you pull out the stalks, and leave the plastic bag closed for a while to capture the free floating particles inside. A good siever is capable of sieving 600-700 grams of zerozero a day, a real pro will be able to do one kilo in the same amount of time. Usually there are groups of sievers, mostly all of them young men who aren't married yet, and get paid by the day. These guys are so incredibly stoned they won't notice a thing if they would smoke a joint. They snort the best hashpowder all day long… but their sieving is top rate!

After five years I dare say it. Whenever you'd ask me what is the best possible Moroccan hash, I have the definite answer. Before sieving very large quantities of kif, the floor, walls and ceiling of the workspace in which the sieving takes place, are covered with plastic foil beforehand, so you work in a kind of tent. When Allah agrees, and the weather was nice and dry and the plants were well dried, you will be able to scrape the finest of the finest from the ceiling after the work is done. These are the tiny little drops of resin that had only just started to grow.


The kif, the powder and the hash.	Ready for transportation.

This stuff you find in concentrated form is called Chrystal hash. The following story illustrates the quality of this stuff. Once I was arrested in my hometown in Holland for alledgedly 'mixing LSD with hash'. What happened? I had just returned from Morocco, and shared a big fat chillum filled with this Chrystal hash in the local youth centre with some local boys & girls. As they say, 'we lived happily ever after', but it sure was a land of dreams that was located very, very far away. Geez, even me myself had never smoked the stuff in a chillum and… extremely powerful is probably too weak an expression to describe the effect... Way too powerful if you weren't warned in advance!

The Marocco-story (4)

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