Shake

In the cannabis culture shake can refer to many different types of crumbs or other small particles of the plant after it has been harvested. Shake can refer to either the leaves of the plant (not very potent) or small broken parts of the bud (medium potency). Shake can be smoked or further processed into kief, hashish, cannabutter, and others.

Varieties

Nearly all bags of Cannabis sativa purchased on the street contain one or both kinds of shake, either as a cut by the dealer to increase the weight (leaf shake), or due to rough or prolonged handling (bud shake). Some terminology schemes distinguish between three basic kinds of shake:

Leaf Shake (or just Shake)

Shake is used most often to refer to cannabis leaves. However, to reduce confusion, it may also be called leaf shake or simply leaf to differentiate it from bud shake. Leaf shake can be bought in large quantities for extremely low prices, and is often given away.

Though larger amounts need to be smoked in order to feel the effects, it is inexpensive enough that one could theoretically achieve the same high one would from bud for less money. However, due to the fact that many stoners find the taste of leaf unpleasant, and the fact that larger amounts are required to be smoked, most stoners would much rather spend the extra money for a quicker, more enjoyable high that doesnt require as much work.

Bud Shake (crums)

Shake also may refer to small particles of cannabis broken off from the main nug, or bud, of cannabis. Many common recreational users of cannabis save their shake for use in rolling blunts, joints, or spliffs. Bud shake is typically as potent as bud and is often referred to as such to avoid confusion with extremely low-potency leaf shake. However, since bud shake is sometimes used for yet a third form of the plant, this variety of shake might be called by a different name altogether, depending on region.

Bud Shake (or Bud Leaf)

Less commonly, bud shake may refer to the smaller leaves clipped from the buds themselves, rather than those harvested from the larger fronds of the plant. These bud leaves are not as potent as buds, but are a good deal more potent than regular leaf shake.

Variations on terminology

Originally, shake was likely used exclusively for crums, whereas leaf and bud leaf wouldve been used for the leaf forms.

There has yet to be established a definitive jargon concerning this matter, and thus remains largely a matter of regional slang.

Regional variants

In areas where shake always refers to leaves, the term bud shake is used to indicate higher-potency leaves clipped from the bud. Particles of bud broken off from the main nug will instead be called crum. Thus, we have shake proper (leaf), bud shake (bud leaf), and crum. This terminology is prevelant in some parts of the Northwestern U.S.

In some areas, shake may still only refer to regular leaf, whereas bud shake will refer to crums, and clippings will be used for bud leaf. Alternately, clippings may refer to bud that has been cut specifically for blunt material, and by extention to the crums that will also be used for this purpose. Under this latter scheme, bud shake is again used for bud leaf.

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