DVD Review: The Hash Man

Even if you spend 40+ hours a week working in the cannabis industry, there are so many different aspects to producing marijuana that you’re always learning. Spending most of that work week budtending (actively helping and ringing up patients who come in to buy the best flower, concentrates, or edibles for the desired effect they’re looking for), I often have to ask a grow hand about clones, nutrients, and general growing; sometimes I even ask edible or concentrate companies that my dispensary regularly works with and respects their opinions on new products. You get the idea!

That’s why I was excited when the boss ordered a whole round of new books and DVD for the Karma bookshelf. Other then on a quick lunch break, I haven’t had the chance to properly dig into some of the newest books on herbal remedies, something about cannabis alchemy, and a wealth of bud porn coffee table books. However, I did take home The Hash Man DVD, from the High Grower Series, on concentrate making and it was filled with a wealth of great information.

Produced in a straightforward style and clocking in at a little less then an hour, this video is chock-full of answers to so many questions I’ve had about concentrate extraction. In addition to budtending and reception duties, I also make bubble hash for Karma, so I already knew much of the info about standard hash making covered in the first half of so. Silk screening is great because it’s so simple and bubble bags produce higher yields of hash, and the pros and cons to every method are actually explicitly discussed here. The main reason I wanted to watch this video is because a separate Colorado business license is required to legally produce anything with butane, CO2, etc, so we’re not allowed to make our own oil or earwax at Karma. Even though I am both a personal fan of dabs and hash oil and someone who sells (and buys wholesale) earwax, moonrock, and shatter glass concentrates, I’ve never actually seen them made myself.

I was impressed at how much time this video spent on different ways to make concentrates with solvents, including a way to make your own oil at home without the often dangerous chemical extraction (involving trim and high proof liquor, which they mention you can buy at a liquor store, and about 4 days of fermentation time.)

Also excellent was the level of detail given to making your own cannabutter for edibles and exactly the chemical bodily process that makes an edible buzz different from a smoking one. Turns out that when ingested, you don’t actually get THC going to your brain the way it does when you smoke; instead, once the food gets through your stomach and to your liver it gets converted to a chemical called hydrox 11, which is the chemical that has a psychoactive effect when sent to the brain. So there’s your Weedist fun fact for the day, and this video is full of tips just like it!