'Hard' Hash
This hash is usually between dark and light brown in colour, often crumbled into tiny pieces to obtain maximum surface area when burning. Once crumbled, it is often mixed with tobacco (although a tobacco alternative such as certain types of herbs may also be used). This mix can be rolled up into a cigarette with rolling papers (what is known as a 'joint', 'biff' or 'spliff '') and smoked like a normal cigarette. In Europe and North Africa many users break off a 1-2 cm piece of cigarette and use this as a 'filter'. In France and the German- and French-speaking parts of Switzerland, this is known as rolling 'Maroc' ('Maroc' meaning 'Morocco' in French). In Spain it is called a 'Mora.' In the United Kingdom, it is variously known as 'brown (also a name for heroin in some parts of the UK),' 'hash,' 'resin', 'puff', 'blow' and 'block.' In the Netherlands, this is called "Maroc", "Lieb" (Lebanon) or, from quality zero being best to secundeira worst: "triple zero", "zero zero", "super primaira", "primaira", "secundeira". Also, there is a branch of nearly white 'powder hash' ('pollen' or 'kief has') that is the result of not stamping the raw material for the more common compressed hashish.

'Soft' Hash
This is usually very dark brown to black in colour and goes under the name black in France, squidgey or soft black (named due to the colour and properties of the hash) in the UK, or Paki Black in Spain (meaning it originates from Pakistan). As this hash is softer, it can be rolled out into a long, thin spaghetti less than 1 mm thick in diameter, with the heat of the fingers sufficient to soften the hash up enough to make it more pliable. This long, especially thin column of hash can be rolled up in a joint placed on a bed of tobacco or cannabis, burning along with the tobacco as the user inhales. The hash must be very thin to expose a maximum surface area, if not the tobacco will burn faster and the column of hash will remain sticking out the end of the joint, as the centre is left unburnt. Another way of smoking hash in joints is to mix it. This involves holding a "j" around the same size as a pencil end rubber over an open flame. The j should then catch fire at which point the temperature should be perfect to blow out the flame and then mix together with tobacco, preferably a dry sort such as the contents of a cigarette. At the end of this procedure the individual tobacco pieces should have a layer of hash, it is not uncommon by the time that the hash has cooled that their will be small crumbs notably called "bombers" or "hotrocks". This mixture is then rolled into a blunt in the same manner as in other procedures. (This method is also used if the participant is wanting to smoke soft hash in a pipe or bong).

Alternatively, a North African technique called dabous or "Khabour" (cup) in Arabic can be used to ingest the spaghetti without having to roll it in a joint. One places a drinking cup on the table, sticks the prepared spaghetti of hash perpendicular into the side of a cigarette (not-burning), and jams the cigarette horizontally into the cup so that the hash hangs down inside the cup without touching the bottom or sides. The hash is then lit up and allowed to slowly burn almost like an incense stick whilst the top of the cup is covered with a piece of card, a CD cover or the like to trap the smoke. As the hash burns it slowly fills the cup with smoke which the user can then inhale by moving the cardboard cover slightly to make a little gap for their mouth. This method completely does away with any need for smoking any tobacco or rolling papers, which have no beneficial effect on the hashish and, just the opposite, add carcinogens, additives and flavourings to the smoke.

Soft, dark hash is in the Netherlands normally referred to as "Afghaan". Also popular brands are "Citral" and "(Fungus) kashmir".

Another method of smoking hashish, found in Canada and also in Russia, is in the form of bottle tokes, bots or BTs. In Canada, this process is often referred to as Brewing Hash. The user warms the hash in their hands or with a lighter and break small chunks off of the main piece. These smaller pieces are then picked up using the lit end of a cigarette and placed inside of a bottle with a small hole in the side of it. This effectively creates a mini grill in which the toke is roasted. The higher quality of the hash being smoked means that it will burn quickly with thick smoke leaving a small red ember or hot rock. Lower grade material will burn slower or not complete the combustion process and therefore the user needs to pay closer attention or risk inhaling cigarette smoke along with the toke, resulting in, in a non-tobacco smoker's opinion, a very foul toke. Glass bottles produce the best tokes due to their relatively small capacity although larger plastic bottles may be used as well.

Another, rather different method to smoking hash is known commonly as hash cones. The user takes a twist tie, burning off the paper or plastic from the metal wire underneath. This wire is then tightly coiled around the tip of a pen. The hash is then rolled out to a small, paper-thin piece large enough to cover the newly formed metal coil on the pen. It is pressed in and, due to its soft consistancy, will stick to the wire. The wire is then removed from the pen and the hash can then be lit. The metal coil will keep the heat travelling smoothly up the hash and a person can then catch and inhale the resulting smoke.

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