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1809, James Grey Jackson, chapter VIII, in An Account of the Empire of Marocco:
The kief, which is the flower and seeds of the plant, is the strongest, and a pipe of it half the size of a common English tobacco-pipe, is sufficient to intoxicate.
1882, Edmondo de Amicis, translated by C. Rollin-Tilton, Morocco: Its People & Places:
I perceived the odour of kif, and recognised the voices of Selam the Second, Abd-el-Rhaman, and others; it was an Arab orgie in full swing.
1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 80:
The trade goods – Persian rugs, salt, muskets, kif – trailed out behind them over the dunes, still lashed to the backs of rotting animals.
[…]then hung around the special Silver-Key-Members’ Lounge with the other ladies[…]smoking kif and making extremely delicate and oblique fun of their husbands’ sexual idiosyncrasies, […]
2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 52:
‘Some taxi driver, a Maghrebian…he suddenly swerved. They smoke kief, you know.’
2012, Susan Sontag, “9/5/65 Tangier, Tetouan”, in David Rieff, editor, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
Kif melts the brain; dexemyl sharpens the edges. (Kif makes you drift—makes you forget what someone said a minute before–hard to follow a long story or joke, […])