Hash glossary
WPFF, piattella, 120u, static sift, cali plate: resin vocabulary travels faster than its definitions. Every term is explained here for what it is — a method, a format or slang — with its French legal context and the analyses that let you verify what the labels promise.
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- 120u (microns)at the lab
120u refers to a 120-micron (µm) sieve, the mesh size used to sort trichomes when separating hash.
- Beldiaat the lab
Beldia is the traditional hemp landrace of the Moroccan Rif, grown for generations for kif and dry-sieved hash.
- Cali mousseat the lab
In street slang, "cali mousse" refers to an airy, malleable hash sold under Californian aesthetics.
- Cali plateat the lab
A "cali plate" is a slab of hash presented Californian-style: careful packaging, a strain name, brand aesthetics.
- Charasat the lab
Charas is the traditional hash of the Himalayas, made by rubbing fresh flowers — still on the plant — between the palms: the resin sticks…
- Dry siftat the lab
Dry sift is trichome separation by sieving dried plant material — the historical method behind Moroccan and Afghan hash, refined today…
- Frozen hashat the lab
"Frozen" is not a new drug: it is hash made from fresh-frozen plant material (WPFF).
- Full meltat the lab
Full melt describes hash that melts entirely with heat, leaving no plant residue — the purest grade of mechanical separation, typically…
- Hashishat the lab
Hashish (hash) is the resin of cannabis or hemp: the trichomes separated from the plant, dry, in ice water or by hand-rubbing, then…
- Ice-o-latorat the lab
The ice-o-lator (or bubble hash) is trichome separation in ice water: the cold stiffens them, agitation breaks them off, and filtration…
- Olivetteat the lab
In slang, an olivette is a small amount of hash hand-rolled into an olive shape — a street resale unit, usually around a gram.
- Piattellaat the lab
Piattella is a fine-fraction bubble hash refined cold under vacuum until it becomes a supple, homogeneous slab kept refrigerated.
- Static siftat the lab
Static sift is dry sieving assisted by static electricity: trichome heads cling to a charged surface while the rest falls away.
- Triplo filtratoat the lab
Triplo filtrato ("triple filtered") describes a dry sift passed through three successive screenings, each refining the previous fraction.
- WPFFat the lab
WPFF stands for whole plant fresh frozen: the entire plant is frozen immediately after harvest, without drying, to preserve volatile…
How this glossary is organised
A first family of terms describes methods: dry sieving, sieving assisted by static electricity, ice-water separation, freezing the whole plant. Those technical choices determine the texture, the aromatic profile and the price per gram of a resin, starting from identical plant material. Knowing them is enough to read most labels.
A second family gathers measurements and grades: the micron mesh used for sorting, the melt scale that judges the mechanical purity of a fraction. Those markers can be checked by eye and by hand, but they say nothing about chemical composition. That is the job of a batch’s HPLC analysis, whose certificate gives the measured content and the Δ⁹-THC line.
A third family covers traditions and regional labels, from the Moroccan Rif to the Himalayas by way of Italian and Spanish workshops. They carry a real technical history and also serve as sales arguments: an origin claimed on a label is not a documented origin.
The last family is resale slang. Those words are treated here as information and harm reduction, never as promotion: they name a format or a presentation, never a composition. Every page follows the same plan — the one-sentence definition, the method, the French legal framework below 0.30% Δ⁹-THC, then the Canna·wiki entries and catalogue resins the term points to.