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Cannabis. Hashish ( Arabic: حشيش, ( IPA: [ħæʃiːʃ] )), commonly shortened to hash, is an oleoresin made by compressing and processing parts of the cannabis plant, typically focusing on flowering buds (female flowers) containing the most trichomes. [2] [3] It is consumed as a psychoactive drug by smoking or oral ingestion.
Cannabis is illegal in Afghanistan. It has been cultivated for centuries, and experienced relatively little interference until the 1970s, where after it became an issue both in international politics and in the finance of the series of wars which occurred in Afghanistan for forty years. In 2010, the United Nations reported that Afghanistan was ...
The Hasheesh Eater. The Hasheesh Eater (1857) is an autobiographical book by Fitz Hugh Ludlow describing the author's altered states of consciousness and philosophical flights of fancy while he was using a cannabis extract. In the United States, the book created popular interest in hashish, leading to hashish candy and private hashish clubs.
Opium production in Afghanistan. Poppy plantation in Gostan valley, Nimruz Province. Afghanistan has long had a history of opium poppy cultivation and harvest. As of 2021, Afghanistan's harvest produces more than 90% of illicit heroin globally, and more than 95% of the European supply. [1] [2] More land is used for opium in Afghanistan than is ...
The Afghan Air Force (Pashto: افغان هوايي ځواک, Persian: د افغانستان هوائی ځواک), officially known as the Afghan Air Force and Air Defense and sometimes referred to as the DRA Air Force or DRAAF, was the main aerial warfare uniform service branch of the Afghan Armed Forces from 1978 until the dissolution of the Republic of Afghanistan in April 1992.
Ethnic groups in Afghanistan as of 1997. Afghanistan is a multiethnic and mostly tribal society. The population of the country consists of numerous ethnolinguistic groups: mainly the Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, and Uzbek, as well as the minorities of Aimaq, Turkmen, Baloch, Pashai, Nuristani, Gujjar, Brahui, Qizilbash, Pamiri, Kyrgyz, Sadat, Mongol and others.
16 Days in Afghanistan is a 2007 documentary film about the journey of Afghan-American Anwar Hajher, also the director, traveling to his homeland Afghanistan after 25 years to rediscover his country. [1] The film is produced by Mithaq Kazimi and is the first documentary since the fall of Taliban to be shot in those provinces which remain under ...
Medicine portal. Agriculture portal. v. t. e. US Marine patrolling through a cannabis field in Afghanistan, 2010. Cannabis usage is currently prohibited in the United States military, but historically it has been used recreationally by some troops, and some cannabis-based medicines were used in the military as late as the twentieth century.