Sounds like you tried kief, kief is a powder that you might say resembles sand.

Hash is brown and usually pressed into a block or rolled into a ball.

kief: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Joes_joint.jpg

hash: http://www.onlinepot.org/hash/_deriv...order_Hash.gif
Frivolous248 Reviewed by Frivolous248 on . Smoked Hash for the first time in my life... All I have to say is wow. I smoked hash (in powdery form, actually it looks like dried bacon bits) with a few of my freinds for the first time in my life yesterday and it gave my high, a very nice strong kick. Not to mention it almost made me cough a lung out. Man, I was really high. It felt like my body was starting to float in the air. It was cool. It gave me a stronger body high. We packed some weed, then we sprinkled some hash then we packed some more weed and topped it with a second Rating: 5