I suppose today’s the right day for this question:
Recently, I was reading through a textbook on drugs and drug use. It mentioned that in some camel-owning cultures, it has occasionally been the practice to feed marijuana to a camel in quantity, and then turn the subsequent dung into hashish.
It’s apparent to me how this might have been discovered. The camel gets loose and eats your stash; a few days later, you’re burning its poop for fuel, and everyone gets high.
My question is, why would you ever do that again? How is feeding marijuana to a camel and then tripping on the dung not a colossal waste of marijuana? Is hashish just that much better in some way?
DISCLAIMER: I am not advocating that anyone use or cultivate these drugs. I am not asking for advice. I have no camels, and I am not planning to get any or to attempt anything similar with my dog or my wife. I do not have these drugs and do not use them, ever. I am just curious what the motivation is to do this, among people who do this.
My first thought is that this is a mistranslation or misunderstanding, and that camel dung was used for fires, hence lighting, thus imparting some flavour to the bongs or cigarettes. And if stores were low, you might use dung to stretch it.
My second thought is: have you heard of Kopi Luwak? I don’t know enough about Hash preparation - is it fermented like tobacco? If so, you could use camels as alternative fermentation method.
I’ll get the obvious answer out of the way. Dope is for dopes.
Is this good shit or what, dude…
No, it’s just dried and mushed together. The camel would be an alternative mushing method, rather than a fermentation method.
The only thing I could think of is a form of smuggling, perhaps?
Good thought! I have heard of that, and I suppose I can understand that the flavor of the coffee is sufficiently different to go to the trouble. I guess I’m asking what the corresponding improvement is as to camels and marijuana.
Maybe I’m approaching this from too modern a perspective, where coffee is plenitful and marijuana tightly controlled. “Wasting” a bit of coffee doesn’t seem like that big a deal, whereas a pot enthusiast would likely never have a large amount to start with. If marijuana is grown plentifully in this camel-owning society, maybe it’s no big deal to set aside some of it to be “refined” in this way.
PS: I had no idea the civet cat looked like a gigantic rat.
Obviously stupid question: wouldn’t the camel trip for hours (and be essentially useless during the process) and then piss out the THC? Seems like all you’d get is fermented hemp unsuitable even for braiding ropes.