Kief
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Kief, Ageef, Ageeve refers to the loose, dried resin glands (or trichomes) of cannabis which may accumulate on containers, in grinders, or be removed with a kiefing screen or sieve. The word is similar to the Arabic word "كيف" which literally means "how". It is sometimes erroneously called pollen or crystal. Kief can be smoked in a number of ways, including using smoking pipes, Waterpipe (bong), in a vaporizer or rolling papers (resulting in a joint). Kief contains a much higher concentration of desired psychoactive ingredients, primarily THC, than ordinary preparations of cannabis buds from which it is derived.
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[edit] Manufacturing
Kief can be collected by crushing dried bud, which is covered with loose trichomes. The trichomes fall from the bud and can be seen as a gold powder, or kief. Another method of obtaining the trichomes is to rub the bud against a fine screen. (Trichomes may be inadvertently combined with small pieces of plant matter breaking off from the bud, reducing relative potency per weight.) Kief powder can be compressed into solid form, creating hashish.
[edit] Passive collection
Cannabis may be stored in a container with a fine screen at the bottom. Such containers are often called kief-boxes, kief-catchers, or shaker boxes. Over time the agitation of storing and removing cannabis in this box will cause kief to accumulate in a compartment beneath the screen, where it can then be collected. Many grinders are also fitted with kief screens. Another proven method of kief extraction involves placing the marijuana in a coffee grinder and shaking whilst grinding. The lid needs to be moistened, usually by exhaling onto the lid, to improve the kief's ability to accumulate along the lid's edge. It is recommended that the kief be scraped from the lid with a knife immediately following the grinding process. Any kief that is not retrievable from the interior of the grinder (possibly due to buildup from multiple usages) is extracted by rinsing with pure isopropyl alcohol, and allowing the alcohol to evaporate on a glass baking pan, the resin of which is easily scraped with a paint scraper or razor blade.
[edit] Smoking
In the California Medical Marijuana community and the U.S. as a whole, kief is most often smoked by sprinkling on top of a full bong cone or bowl (as seen on the right) to make the buds more potent.
Kief can also be smoked in a narrow, screened miniature pipe (see Cannabis smoking), with the practiced user sucking very slow as taught by yogis (pranayama) and afterwards breathing several times in and out of a breath-bonnet (bread bag, balloon, etc.).
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