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  Hashish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Hashish is made from a resin secreted by flowering tops of female plants.
Hashish is used for intoxication in several different ways, by smoking together with tobacco, by eating or by being added to beverages.
Physically, the reactions are reddening of the eyes, dryness in the mouth and throat, unstable bodily activities and drowsiness.
i-cias.com /e.o/hashish.htm   (566 words)

  
 The Poem of Hashish
You know that hashish always invokes magnificences of light, splendours of colour, cascades of liquid gold; all light is sympathetic to it, both that which streams in sheets and that which hangs like spangles to points and roughnesses; the candelabra of salons, the wax candles that people burn in May, the rosy avalanches of sunset.
The sophisms of hashish are numerous and admirable, tending as a rule to optimism, and one of the principal and the most efficacious is that which transforms desire into realisation.
Let us admit for the moment that hashish gives, or at least increases, genius; they forget that it is in the nature of hashish to diminish the will, and that thus it gives with one hand what it withdraws with the other; that is to say, imagination without the faculty of profiting by it.
www.angelfire.com /co3/Solaris/ThePoemofHashish.htm   (11680 words)

  
  Hashish
Hashish is made from a resin secreted by flowering tops of female plants.
Hashish is used for intoxication in several different ways, by smoking together with tobacco, by eating or by being added to beverages.
Hashish can also have some positive medical effects, and can be used as a drug against a number of diseases and maladies, everything from cancer to alleviating nausea.
lexicorient.com /e.o/hashish.htm   (566 words)

  
 GANJABUS Medical Marijuana Growing Network: Hashish Hash
Hashish, more commonly called hash, is a potent grade of cannabis made from resin extracted from the flower clusters of the marijuana plant.
The hashish is obtained from the marijuana by drying and cooling the plant and then sieving again and again, until all that remains is a very fine and pale powder.
The hashish is obtained from the marijuana by rubbing the live plants and collecting the resin that forms on the hands or cloth that has rubbed the plant.
www.ganjabus.com /2005/05/hashish-hash.html   (701 words)

  
 hashish - HighBeam Encyclopedia
Hashish, called charas in India, is the most potent grade of cannabis and is obtained from cultivated plants grown in hot, moist climates.
Like marijuana, hashish is usually smoked, but in a pipe or water pipe; in N Africa it is also eaten.
Hashish is an intoxicant, producing euphoria and exaggerations of sensations.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-hashish.html   (362 words)

  
 HASHISH
Hashish, the Mercedes-Benz of cannabis preparations, is a heavy-weight, -double-fisted -version of its weaker sister, marijuana.
Hashish is processed resin from the cannabis plant, mixed with some of the plant's fiber, water, or animal and vegetable ails to bind it together.
Hashish was thought of as the drug of choice of various heretics, barbarians, and murderous cults, and thus was banned because of who was using it, rather than for what it was.
www.drugtext.org /library/books/recreationaldrugs/hashish.htm   (1713 words)

  
 Hashish
Hashish consists of the THC-rich resinous material of the cannabis plant, which is collected, dried, and then compressed into a variety of forms, such as balls, cakes, or cookie-like sheets.
The THC content of hashish that reached the United States, where demand is limited, averaged 6 percent in the 1990s.
In terms of its psychoactive effect, a drop or two of this liquid on a cigarette is equal to a single "joint" of marijuana.
www.knowgangs.com /drug_resources/menu_004.htm   (172 words)

  
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Lebanese hashish was most popular in the UK until the mid 1980s, although it is rarely seen in the nineties.
Hashish is a powdered drug made from the flowering part of the cannabis plant.
HASHISH presents the full spectrum of disparate experiences that the citizens of Ketama endure on a daily basis.
www.lycos.com /info/hashish--miscellaneous.html   (424 words)

  
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Hashish brings you twelve new mind-bending garage-punkers, which shows their development from a full on raging lo-fi garage band in the '90s to a full on raging higher-fi garage band in for the new millennium!
Hashish oil is an extremely potent extract of the active chemical in marijuana (archaic: marihuana), or the cannabis plant, delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol.
Hashish consists of the tetrahydrocannabinol-rich resinous bulbs known as trichomes as well as other minute plant material from the male and/or female flowers of the cannabis plant.
www.lycos.com /info/hashish.html   (572 words)

  
 Hashish - Alternative medicine - Alternative medicine
Hashish is comprised of the compressed trichomes collected from the leaves and flowers of a mature, flowering Cannabis sativaCannabis plant.
High quality hashish is derived from a batch of unpollinated female flowers (sinsemilla), a process which requires the skill and means to at least separate the female from the male plants before they reach sexual maturity or, more efficiently, to make clones of a particularly potent female.
Hashish is widely available in Europe, as opposed to marijuana which is more sparsely available on the whole, although recent reports suggest a rapidly expanding 'home-grown' supply chain.
www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Hashish   (1479 words)

  
 Marijuana - The First Twelve Thousand Years - The Hashish Club
Moreau's experiments with hashish led him to the conclusion that insanity was not due to brain damage, as many of the leading psychiatrists of his day maintained, but was instead due to a change in the way the brain functioned, a change that was caused by a chemical alteration in the nervous system.
The popularity of Gautier's writings on hashish, it has been said, was not so much due to his descriptions of the hashish experience as to the moody atmosphere of the gathering place of the Hashish Club and the eminent people who assembled there to partake of the drug.
The hashish user is cast under a spell in which an idea is fixed in his mind to the exclusion of everything else and this idea determines how one sees oneself on a number of different levels.
www.druglibrary.org /schaffer/hemp/history/first12000/8.htm   (7907 words)

  
 GANJABUS Medical Marijuana Growing Network: Smoking Hashish
Although smoking hashish is illegal in Morocco, plenty of men do it and if you can find some locals to smoke with, that's probably the best way to try.
If you have smoked hashish before, then beware that the homegrown variety is reportedly more potent than what you are used to at home.
Hashish is usually crumbled, mixed with tobacco and then rolled into a joint (cigarette) or smoked in a pipe.
www.ganjabus.com /2006/05/smoking-hashish.html   (787 words)

  
 Hashish Summary
Hashish is the resin derived principally from the flowers, bracts, and young leaves of the female hemp plant.
Hashish was introduced to the West in the middle of the nineteenth century by a French psychiatrist, Moreau de Tours, who experimented with the drug as a means of understanding the phenomenon of mental illnesses.
Hashish use is experiencing a resurgence in parts of North America (especially the Pacific Northwest) with the rise in popularity of a particularly pure and potent variety of hashish known as bubble hash.
www.bookrags.com /Hashish   (4323 words)

  
 GET THE FACTS: MARIJUANA/HASHISH
Hashish is the dried, caked resin from the hemp plant flower and is generally smoked in pipes.
Hashish oil is extracted from the hemp resin; a drop or two of the oil on a tobacco cigarette produces roughly the same effect as a marijuana cigarette.
Marijuana and hashish are sometimes "spiked" with other substances such as PCP and crack, making their effects unpredictable and more dangerous.
www.crisny.org /government/ny/marijuana.html   (943 words)

  
 Drug Free Pennsylvania - Drugs of Abuse - Hashish
Hashish is a reddish-brown to fl colored resinous material of the cannabis plant, which is collected, dried, and then compressed into a variety of forms, such as balls, cakes, or cookie-like sheets.
Short-term effects of hashish include problems with memory and learning, distorted perception (sights, sounds, time, touch), trouble with thinking and problem solving, loss of motor coordination, increased heart rate, and anxiety.
Hashish smoke contains some of the same cancer-causing compounds as tobacco, sometimes in higher concentrations.
www.drugfreepa.org /drugs/hashish.asp   (192 words)

  
 Jewish News, Jewish Newspapers - Forward.com
Hashish, or oil resin from marijuana plants, is one of the primary recreational drugs available in Israel.
The quantity of hashish being smuggled into the country started to soar in the late 1990s; Israeli officials seized and confiscated 143 kilograms in 2001.
Most hashish users in Israel are believed to be adolescents and young adults in their 20s.
www.forward.com /article/drug-users-say-no-to-hezbollah-call-for-wartime-h   (582 words)

  
 The New Yorker : critics : books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
“On Hashish” is not, however, the “truly exceptional book” he had in mind; it’s a miscellany, gathering the protocols of his drug experiments, two published accounts of his experiences, and a handful of references to drugs culled from his other works.
In a hashish trance, he hoped, it would be possible to understand the language of things more directly than in ordinary life—to experience a universe suffused with meaning.
Hashish, by granting a vision of this redemption in such a compromised and transient form, forces us to confront the likelihood that it was never anything more than a fantasy.
www.newyorker.com /critics/books/articles/060821crbo_books   (4232 words)

  
 Morocco's smuggling rackets: hashish, people and contraband - Geopium - Jane's Intelligence Review - Pierre-Arnaud ...
Although all of the hashish consumed in Spain and 82 per cent of that consumed in France is estimated by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to be of Moroccan origin, the two countries are far from being the only European consumers of Moroccan hashish.
Hashish trafficking within and from the Rif requires the roads to be 'bought' and traffickers, not farmers, have the financial and socio-political means to do this, something that is unavoidable considering the frequency of police roadblocks in the Rif Mountains and the many military watchtowers dotting the Moroccan Mediterranean coast.
As in the case of hashish trafficking, the author states, "there are numerous different methods of smuggling migrants: in cargo boats or fishing boats, but there are also networks with contacts with the crews of passenger boats and customs officials who accept unrecorded passengers".
www.pa-chouvy.org /Chouvy-JIR-DEC2005-Moroccos_smuggling_rackets_hashish_people_and_contraband.html   (2970 words)

  
 NCADI: 1993 National Household Survey - Marijuana and Hashish Use   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The number of marijuana and hashish users did not change between 1992 and 1993 (9.0 million in both years).
Frequent use of marijuana, defined as use on a weekly basis during the past year, remained unchanged from 1991 through 1993 at about 5.1 million weekly users (2.4 percent of the population in 1993) but was significantly lower than in 1985, when there were an estimated 8.9 million weekly users (4.6 percent of the population).
Trends in marijuana and hashish use by age group are similar to the trends for any illicit drug use.
ncadi.samhsa.gov /govpubs/ar007/mj-hash.aspx   (358 words)

  
 3.4 Hashish and marijuana (cannabis) see also 4.4
Hashish and marijuana derive from the plant cannabis sativa.
Hashish and marijuana are smoked with cigarettes or smoked pure in special pipes: Chillums and water pipes.
When smoked with cigarettes, the hashish or marijuana is crumbled onto a small bed of tobacco inside a fold of rice paper and then rolled into a cylinder, i.e., joint.
www.drugtext.org /library/books/raterisks/3.4.htm   (464 words)

  
 hashish marijuana
Hashish is produced by the distillation of the resin extracted from flowers, offering a superior concentration of tetrahydrocannibol to marijuana.(A 40 % instead of a 10 % in the leaves).
Marijuana is used as a drug by smoking it in cigarettes or pipes, whereas hashish has to be burned a little in order to release it from its ordinary form, some brownish tablets.
From then on, its consumption has been decreasing, being substituted by hashish which has extended itself among circles of different social status and has become widely outspread.(it is estimated about 300 million of hashish consumers all over the world)
www.botanical-online.com /alcaloidesmarihuanaangles.htm   (388 words)

  
 UNODC - Bulletin on Narcotics - 1963 Issue 3 - 002
For the preparation of the solutions, the substances (natural hashish and hashish sublimate) were treated with petroleum ether or ether containing no peroxides.
In studying animals intoxicated with hashish, it is possible to distinguish between a stage of excitement 4 and a stage of paralysis.
The analysis of hashish sublimate obtained, by suitable means, from natural hashish is important for the study of cannabis, since the hashish smoker absorbs only the substances which are contained in the hashish smoke.
www.unodc.org /unodc/es/bulletin/bulletin_1963-01-01_3_page003.html   (1195 words)

  
 Hashish cultivation in the state of Southern Darfour, Sudan
Hashish processing would normally be carried out on the farms but, for security reasons, it is transported to hidden locations to be processed and stored.
Hashish dealers, including workers, farmers and traders in each village were released during the visits, under oath not to work on hashish production again and to work towards its prevention.
Attempts made at the prevention of hashish cultivation during the study proved to be effective; their effectiveness was demonstrated by the sharp increase in the price of hashish at Al-Deain and Niyalla hashish markets.
www.emro.who.int /publications/emhj/0401/18.htm   (2839 words)

  
 Hashish Club - Friends of Cannabis - marijuana Smoking Celebrities
In the introduction to The Artificial Paradises, his best known work on hashish, Baudelaire candidly admits that for much of his information concerning the actions of the drug, he relied on the detailed notes he had accumulated in talking to his friends who had been using hashish for a long time.
Like Gautier, Dumas was astute enough to realize that hashish had a mystique about it that fascinated the French reading public, and he heightened the interest of one of his best known stories, The Count of Monte Cristo, by making hashish a part of the plot.
The use of such a drug by a member of the government convinced many readers that the dangers attributed to hashish had probably been exaggerated, although the number of people who decided to try some for themselves as the result of such books was never great.
www.friendsofcannabis.com /friends/hashish_club.htm   (8107 words)

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