For the city, see Kief, North Dakota.

Kief collected from a grinder with a screen

Kief or keef (from Arabic: kaif, meaning "well-being, pleasure")^[1]refers to the loose, dried resin glands (or trichomes) of cannabis which may accumulate on containers, in grinders, or be removed with a kiefing screen or sieve. The word is similar to the Arabic word "كيف" which literally means "how". Informally, in the Egyptian dialect it means "being buzzed" or "liking to get high". It is sometimes erroneously called pollen or crystal. Kief contains a much higher concentration of desired psychoactive ingredients, primarily THC, than ordinary preparations of cannabis buds from which it is derived.

[edit] See also

• Bhang
• Hashish
• Legality of cannabis by country
• Sebsi

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