Let The Hashish Timeline Begin: Your Input Is Needed To Make the official Timeline

People have a tendency to exaggerate and think everything happened years before it actually did. Especially the youth in and around the industry as time shrinks with age. As always, there's outliers and exceptions, but a key turning point happened after legalization in California and the retail industry helps to decipher a hashish timeline. As some of the same medical dispensary stores from the Prop 215 years became legal weed stores, inventory was pretty similar across California (as it remains). Dry crumbles had replaced waxes and shatter completely by 2014, until 2015-16 when Live Resin BHO blew us all away...

A Hashish Timeline

If my terrible memory serves me right, Live Resin and therefore, fresh frozen harvests, first hit medical- and then retail- shelves in California in 2016. By 2016-17 Raw Garden had seventy five million flavors of Live Resin BHO, all blasted in a bomb proof lab with liquid butane dissolving trichomes from the frozen plant material (Gross, right? I know, and I smoked a ton of it).

2018: 710 Labs appears with Live Rosin. Everything else is older and the Terp Preservation Jars came from Emerald Cup 2016. (I remember Rosin Tech Labs doing flower rosin displays this year and years prior but only the equipment was for sale).

Extract Evolution Timeline

The first year of legalization things were changing, as retail establishments weren't allowed to open until 2017. And it wasn't until the last year of Prop 215 into the first or second year of retail that fresh-frozen harvests and therefore, Live Resin appeared on retail shelves & black market delivery services in Northern California (I know you Norcal bastards love when I call it Norcal. How about those Niners?). Lucky for us solventless quickly followed the very next year with two brands: 710 Labs & Papas Select. This was 2017 to 2018 in California.

Meanwhile, Colorado was ahead as usual and live rosin and ice water hash was already becoming the norm by 2017. With an eye toward Colorado, I patiently awaited 710's arrival and scored on a few of their earliest California drops. One taste of their Live Rosin, the monumental moment when it clicked and made sense was revolutionary. A moment I will never forget.

Flower rosin had hit the scene by about 2012-ish. But with the terpene drenched dabs of Live Resin BHO in 2016, flower rosin fell to the wayside for a period of time. This modern solventless miracle would come again, after fresh frozen harvests were implemented in the making of bubble-hash.

A Fresh Frozen Timeline in the Making

Hash Dicks

After another "hash-dick-off", claiming fresh-frozen or at least live resin in 2010, it led me to a quick search of our lovely-major cannabis publications, claiming live resin didn't hit California until 2019:

"California started seeing “live resin” products begin to hit the shelves of dispensaries about a year ago (written in 2020)... Fresh frozen trim is not common in California."

What a stunning display of Prohibition/pre-2020 understanding. The thought of using the whole plant - let alone the whole harvest- for extracts was something that still didn't register. "Fresh Frozen Trim isn't common" and fresh frozen flowers aren't even imaginable. As discussed, Live Resin was clearly present in California long before 2019, as the article claims.

Kind Bill's Live Resin

This article lends Kind Bill of Colorado credit for inventing and implementing fresh frozen harvests (called "wet plant extraction") and Live Resin BHO in 2013 and claims butane was used as far back as the 1990's. Growing up in Colorado, we legalized in 2012, several years before California and a lot of new tech followed. A lot of my early writing was geared toward Colorado tech (working as my time machine to see into the future for CA).

Live Resin's Introduced

The article goes on to claim that Live Resin BHO started in 2012-13 (agreeable) in Colorado. I was in jail with a kid who blew up his condo making BHO in 2010-2011, using dry trim material. People were open blasting, using butane without a lab set-up, as early as 2008 from my direct personal experience, but were apparently blasting as far back as the 1990's. These extracts are what is now referred to as a "Cured Resin," using BHO tech on dried and cured flowers.

Fresh-Frozen GOes Solventless

"Nikka T of Essential Extracts was the first major cold water producer to pick up on the new trend (of fresh-frozen harvests)" and the world hasn't been the same place since. This implies the first fresh frozen harvests for ice water hash making occurred in Colorado as early as 2013-14. Totally agreeable. It took a few more years to get to the Cali market as 710 Labs was dropping hash rosin in Colorado a good year or two before dropping in California in 2018.

Varied Dates

Coming this far has made it clear that several dates apply depending upon circumstance, styles, or state. However, a juvenile culture of vindictive-spoiled brats have emerged hanging around the hash, while most of today's brand owners don't even consume! We have an industry built/bought by parents. What a strange world where consumers would rather fight one another and take a brand's word for it. They'd rather side with corporations (who prey upon their hard earned money), than finding power in numbers and caring for each other.

Instagram culture is toxic.

No one knows the answers to a million cannabis questions and there's far more misinformation out there than relatable or usable facts. And this culture of cool has made overt ass-kissing popular, but being incorrect is a crime. The real crime is failing to explain the correct answer and allowing misinformation to be published without regard. It has made question asking impossible, while whoever asks is taunted for their lack of knowledge. Knowledge that few on Earth actually understand or have access to.

A LONG SLOW EVOLUTION

This is why things have evolved so incredibly slow in this industry, despite the claims of constant evolution. They have constantly found new ways to make more money, but quality remained stagnant for decades. The buds just got bigger, harder, heavier, while inbred genetics paved the way to today. Everyone is ready to make money at all costs, not educate, understand, or promote products of quality.

CREATING THE Profitable CORPORATE-Cannabis-Market

Looking back to 2016, those general cannabis education campaigns make sense now.

Education was never the aim, claiming to educate & effective lobbying efforts made the plant appear More Socially Acceptable. And the only education anyone receives, is the bare minimum Necessary to consume as many of their products as Fast as Is humanly possible.*

Step One in legalization propaganda sought to claim cannabis as generally beneficial, acceptable, and safe (while selling products missing a majority of what makes cannabis beneficial). Truly shocking how susceptible people are to propaganda, despite hundreds of thousands of years of safe and documented cannabis use. A never ending list of exposed lies, deceit, and corruption, make it alarming how many continue to trust the words of the powerful.

Step Two in cannabis propaganda seeks to locate and identify the "correct" places to purchase "beneficial, acceptable, and safe cannabis" products, despite failing to do exactly this the first time around and even worse, failing to inform people of their failure. And let me guess, ...

Step Three will include legislation intended to destroy the original market (possibly by contaminating the supply intentionally, or creating a new threat for consumers to fear).

STEP NEVER: Education about the plant and the products made from the plant, will never be explained.

The Hashish Timeline

This mission has come with plenty of enemies, exposing the chemical solvent rackets, while offering solventless as the savior. Topics that very few have been willing to speak upon. Here I was trying to help educate as many people as possible, not even realizing a new truth implies incorrect knowledge prior. More accurately, I didn't care. Knowledge the industry created, curated, and cornered in the Old Market. Marketing tactics taken as facts by consumers world-wide. No wonder there was so much attention and resistance to the solventless evolution.

Before Live Rosin, there wasn't a product worthy of argumentation and so a good distance was kept between industry information and the truth. All products made with an extract were assumed to be made from trim/shake/small buds if you were lucky. They made a usable and generally valuable product from what was once considered trash. Compared to Live Rosin, where the entire harvest is dedicated to the hash, you can imagine the monumental leap in progress these methods represent.

Wrap-Up

This has gathered the available dates and experience of living in California and Colorado, while having access to the products. It would be interesting to see when each black market hash maker put two and two together to create Live Hash Rosin on their own, but for consumers and history, a few years in either direction is but an unnoticeable blip on the map. What matters is helping others to navigate the industry and find products of real value to the consumer. Simple, normal, humanly stuff.

Learning the order of discovery and the evolution of our extract techniques will help empower consumers to understand the big picture. And before too much time has passed and this history becomes a blur, let's map out an agreed upon timeline.

Let me know the first time you had or saw Wax? Shatter? Live Resin? , Live Rosin? , Ice Water Hash? , etc. Drop your comments below.

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