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Hashish Summary
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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...
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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...
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Hashish
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Hallucinogenic drug preparation derived from resin from the flowers of hemp plants. Marijuana, a product of the same plant, is far less potent. Hashish is smoked or eaten. The active ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), makes up 10–15%...
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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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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Boat carrying hashish linked to al-Qaida
12/20/2003: 539 words, approx. 2 pages
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...
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The Middle East
Cleaning up their act. (Syria trying to assert trade of drugs such as hashish)
09/01/1993: 920 words, approx. 3 pages
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...
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AP News
Member of ruling Kuwait family condemned
1/15/2007: 354 words, approx. 1 pages
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...
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AP News
Canadian released by Dubai in drug case
12/18/2007: 293 words, approx. 1 pages
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...
 


 

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