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Størstedelen af hashen dernede fra er meget mørkt da det er lavet ved hjælp af "rubbing" metoden. Ligesom charas.

Forkert! Afghansk hash er ikke fremstillet med rubbing metoden. Grunden til den sorte farve, samt klistrede konsistens skyldes udelukket at rystet er banket sønder sammen med en kæp imens det er i pose. Det får krystallerne til at sprænge og der varm presses.

In Afghanistan Hashish is pressed by hand...

It's probably have been cooked and pressed at a larger scale. Usually the gardah (unpressed to loosely pressed sieved resin) is poured into a recipient which will serve as mortar. This mortar is placed above a heat source (fire or equivalent) and then as the resin heats and melts it is pounded with some heavy stone, turning the material into the sticky goey black hash. That's a traditionnaly technique, but I guess other are used such as placing the gardah in a thick plastic bag, then strongly beating it until it has heated and melted enough to form the dark sticky stuff.

There's very very little hand-rubbing in Pakistan, and Afghanistan as well, and certainly not at a commercial scale for export. At most the qalandars do it, but sieved is so ready to get everywhere, few people bother to do it. THe only time I've heard about hand-rubbed charas in Chitral (the area where it is said to be practiced), it was about a couple of French people who used to come every year to hand rub.