Hashish is the Arabic word for a particular form of CANNABIS SATIVA; it came into English at the end of the sixteenth century. Hashish is the resin derived principally from the flowers, bracts, and young leaves of the female hemp plant. The resin...

Hashish is the Arabic word for the resin or thick oily material derived from Cannabis sativa, the hemp plant. The word came into English at the end of the sixteenth century. The hemp resin is usually dried and formed into a wafer or brick. It can also...

Purified resin prepared from the flowering tops of the female cannabis plant and smoked or chewed as a narcotic or an...

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Hashish Hashish (from Arabic: حشيش ḥashīsh, lit. "grass"; also hash or cannabis resin or many slang terms) is a preparation of cannabis composed of the compressed trichomes collected from the cannabis plant. It contains the same active...

Boat carrying hashish linked to al-Qaida Navy seizes vessel in Persian Gulf, U.S. says By MATT KELLEY Associated Press Saturday, December 20, 2003 Washington -- The Navy has seized a boat carrying nearly two tons of hashish in the Persian...

A Law Number 2 meting out the death penalty for anyone involved in smuggling or in cultivating, irrespective of their creed, color or political standing, was passed in Syria in July 1993. Pres Hafez Assad was responsible for effecting this law, despite his brother...

A court has convicted a member of Kuwait's ruling family for drug trafficking and it condemned him to death, according to a ruling obtained Monday.It is believed to be the first time that a member of a ruling family in one of the Gulf Arab...

A Canadian U.N. official who advised the Afghan government on eradicating opium poppy crops was granted amnesty by Dubai Monday, six months after being sentenced to four years in prison on a drug smuggling conviction.Bert Tatham, 35, was arrested April 23 during a one-hour stopover...