Where is hashish grown

It is used as a medicinal and ritualistic plant that cures many illnesses. The s brought stringent prison terms to persons caught with the substance. However, today more lax laws have allowed the use of hashish among students and the Hindu sects.

Cannabis grows wild in northern India and in the foothills of the Himalayas. Spain stands fourth in marijuana resin production, at 5. In alone, a total of , plants had been confiscated from Spanish cannabis farmers.

The recent cannabis production from Spain ranges from small home greenhouses to large industrial hydroponic installations which can export the drug in large quantities to other EU countries as well. According to users, Lebanon produces and exports some of the highest quality of hashish in the world.

Before , the substance was widely tolerated in the country, but saw the strict enforcement of anti-hashish laws, and a crackdown on the cultivation and production of hashish in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. Today, the war in Syria has interrupted the war against hashish in lieu of guarding the country's borders. As in other Middle Eastern countries that produce hashish, Afghanistan has centuries of cannabis cultivation and production of its byproducts to its name. Before the King of Afghanistan outlawed cannabis in his country in , many tourists and purchasers came to Afghanistan to enjoy cannabis.

In the summer of , government troops destroyed cannabis farms and killed many pf the farmers tending them. Hashish production in the country started centuries ago, until it was banned after its independence in In , a war on drugs ensued in Morocco that resulted in the total ban on all drugs in that country.

However, today the production and sale of hashish and marijuana in Morocco is more tolerated as it contributes to its economy. Marijuana resin, or "hashish", is a more potent, concentrated form of cannabis than leaf marijuana. To avoid the same fate, Abu Ali in started cultivating hashish, or cannabis resin, which costs four times less to produce than potatoes or green beans.

It also requires less water and fertiliser, while strong market demand means he can rake in a stable income for the first time in years. He has dedicated two hectares five acres of land to hashish cultivation -- enough to produce around kilograms pounds every harvest. Hashish production was once limited to a few villages in the Baalbek, including Yammouneh, but its deputy mayor Hussein Shreif said it is now gaining traction across the whole region. Cannabis, on the other hand, "costs less to produce and rakes in a profit irrespective of how much it's sold for".

Lebanon is the world's fourth biggest hashish producer behind Morocco, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the United Nations said in a report.

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