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Hashish vs Kief - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between hashish and kief

is that hashish is the leaves and tender parts of the indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking while kief is .

hashish

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* hasheesh

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The leaves and tender parts of the Indian hemp plant (which are intoxicating), which are dried for either chewing or smoking.
  • * 1855 , Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah , Dover 1964, p. 44:
    • Coyly at first, but less guardedly as we grew bolder, we smoked the forbidden weed "Hashísh ," conversing lengthily the while about that world of which I had seen so much.
  • * 1876: Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins
    • You know hasheesh is the extract of hemp?
  • A cannabis extract (See ).
  • (slang) marijuana generally.

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    * hash

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    kief

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