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Er. Do you imagine farmers and chefs all wear gloves and hazmat suits while handling the produce that you eat every day?

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. If the idea of a few skin cells disturbs you, you'd better not look too closely into how food handling actually works in the real world.

Yes. I work in a legal cannabis facility in Colorado. We wear full gear before coming in contact with any plants.

Food processing doesn't happen that way. There are, for example, FDA guidelines for acceptable levels of hair, rodent feces, larvae, and "insect fragments" in food. And you eat it all every day!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Food_Defect_Action_Levels

After some time, I bet there aren't enough loose cells to get into the resin. The first batch may have a bunch, but the 10th batch? Probably not so much....

Agreed, I'm not sure I can look at charas the same way again. It's definitely not hygienic, but still better than tobacco imo.

I knew an old guy in Northern California when I was a kid who said he'd made hashish by dressing up in biker leathers and walking through a pot field, then scraping off whatever stuck. (Clever, until you realize they probably weren't using brand new leathers for that...)