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Kief, Kef, Keef or kif refers to the loose, dried resin glands (or trichomes) of Cannabis which accumulate on containers or have been removed with a kiefing screen or sieve. Kief can be smoked in a number of ways, including using smoking pipes, bongs, and vaporizers. Kief is a rare item among Cannabis users, and is prized because of its extremely high THC content.

Contents 1 Etymology 2 Manufacturing 2.1 Passive Collection 3 Smoking 4 See also 5 Regional Meanings 6 External links

The word "kief" appears to come from an Arabic word (classical Arabic form kaif كيف) meaning "pleasure, well being."

Kief can be collected by taking a bud covered in trichomes and brushing it. The dust that falls off is kief. Another method of obtaining trichomes is to rub the bud against an extremely fine screen, often made of silk. Kief can be collected using an electric coffee grinder, the result is a build-up of kief in the center of the coffee grinder lid. The trichomes may be inadvertently combined with small pieces of plant matter that break off from the bud, which reduces overall quality. Kief powder can be compressed into solid form which is then usually called hashish.

Some people will store their Cannabis in a container with a very fine screen at the bottom. Such containers are often called kief-boxesor "kief-catchers". Over time the agitation of storing and removing Cannabis in this box will cause kief to accumulate beneath the screen, where it can be collected. Many grinders are also outfitted with kief screens.

A small amount of kief is typically placed on top of Cannabis when loaded in a smoking pipe or bong. Kief can also be smoked on its own or vaporized for inhalation. Smoking kief requires careful use of the lighter to avoid burning all of it at once. Another popular method of smoking kief is to roll the powder into small spherical objects known as Tee's or Bots, these are then smoked almost exclusively using the bottle toke method.

• Bhang
• Hashish
• Sebsi

• South Africa: Kief (often spelled Kif) is a term used as an expression of admiration or approval.
• Morocco: Kif refers to a traditional smoking blend composed of herbal type of Cannabis using a pipe called Sebsi.^{[citation needed]}
• Australia: Kif (or Kiff) often refers to 'scraps' of marijuana bud or leaf, such as the broken pieces of bud and leaf fragments found at the bottom of large quantities. Kiff does not necessarily have to be 'unwanted' weed, or leafy residue, but large, individual and cohesive pieces of bud are excluded from this definition.
• Germany: Kif is a slang term for marijuana, and kiffen is the verb for smoking marijuana or hashish.
• Norway: Kif/Keef is a slang term for hashish, a term used most often in the eastern parts of the country.

• "Kif in the Rif": an account of a journey to the famed Kif-producing region of Morocco

• Photos of cannabis cultivation in Morocco (Rif) on www.geopium.org

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