Kief

For the city, see Kief, North Dakota.

One gram of screen-sifted cannabis Sativa trichomes, commonly called Kief.

Kief, keef or kif or keif (sometimes kef) refers to the resin glands (or trichomes) of cannabis which may accumulate in containers or be sifted from loose dry cannabis buds with a mesh screen or sieve. Kief contains a much higher concentration of psychoactive cannabinoids, such as THC, than other preparations of cannabis buds from which it is derived. Traditionally kief has been pressed into cakes as hashish for convenience in storage and shipping, but can be vaporized or smoked in its powder form.

According to the Oxford dictionary the word "kif" derives from Arabic: كيف kayf, meaning well-being or pleasure.

Gallery

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  Kief collected from a grinder with a screen.

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  Kief collected from a sieve.

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  Kief collected from a coffee grinder.

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  A piece of compressed kief

See also

• Hash oil
• Bhang
• Charas

External links

• Kief (What is it and how is it made?) Ed Rosenthal, Cannabis Culture Magazine