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The Moroccan Pipe

By Esteve Green

The traditional Moroccan wooden pipe, commonly known as a Sebsi. Is used for smoking kif a mixture of cannabis and tobaco.
The smoking of sebsi's in Morocco as been tradition since the start of Morocco, And although the use of marijuana is illigal in Morocco, The sebsi is still smoked openly by old and young alike.
Sebsi's are made from a variety of woods from the better quality almond and walnut down to a reed like wood that grows along Morocco's rivers and lakes.The reed pipes are left natural with the bark on. Whereas cheaper wood pipes tend to be hand painted with traditional patterns.
The hard wood pipes of almond and walnut are made on a small hand worked laths, by the artsans and come in hundreds of different patterns. Sebsis are nomally 40-45cm long although they tend to be shorter in the south.
The bowl that fits on the end of the sebsi is called a skuff and is hand made from clay.
Nowadays the sebsi is often used outside Morocco. Shop Morocco is one of the leading suppliers of the Moroccan sebsi and skuff and ship's daily all over the world.

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Contributed by Esteve, Shop Morocco on July 30, 2009, at 3:30 PM UTC.

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Shop Morocco
Moroccan shop, specializing in artisan
www.shop-morocco.com

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Who told you kif was a mixture of cannabis and tobacco?
All the kif I ever saw, and smoked, was pure herbal cannabis, fine chopped and pale green with a distinctive sweetly aromatic smell...

Ah I must be wrong then, my personal first hand experience obviously counts for nothing against what someone told you. Honestly, there were bags of kif around in the sixties, and that was just plain old moroccan grass, if some Moroccans like to smoke it with tobacco mixed, that's their funeral, people in the UK do likewise with joints [one reason might be that it helps it burn more steadily and stay alight], but kif has always been plain herbal cannabis. Just because tobacco addicts introduce tobacco into the experience doesn't change the meaning of the word. Having chopped many plants up in my time, I can vouch for the fact that the kif we had around in the sixties was just grass.
But don't just believe me, try this from Wikipedia:
Kief or keef (from Arabic: كيف kayf, meaning well-being or pleasure[1]) refers to the resin glands (or trichomes) of cannabis which may accumulate in containers or be sifted[2] from loose dry cannabis buds with a mesh-#30 kiefing screen or sieve. Kief contains a much higher concentration of desired psychoactive ingredients, primarily THC, than other preparations of cannabis buds from which it is derived. Traditionally kief has been pressed and baked into cakes as hashish for convenience in storage and shipping, but it can also be vaporized or "toked" in its powder form.

The term originates from the Egyptian dialect of Arabic, where the word can be translated as "being buzzed" or "liking to get high".

See any mention of tobacco there?

It is you, 'my friend' who are wrong.

You've 'never seen cannabis with a sweet aromatic smell' really? I think all cannabis varieties have a sweet aromatic smell, perhaps you could try smelling rather than looking?

Foolonthehill Apr 30, 2010 17:20

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My information comes from many Moroccan friends plus a vast personal experiance. It is you who is wrong my friend, Ive never seen pure cannabis with a sweet aromatic smell.

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