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...

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