KABUL, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Following the government's fight against poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, local farmers have mostly replaced the opium poppy with another profitable but illicit herb, the ...

In the neighbourhood of Ichhra in Lahore, hundreds of people gather every Thursday night at the shrine of Shah Jamal, a Sufi of the Suhrawardi and Qadiriyya orders (silsila). Under the sacred peepal ...

“I have been consuming hashish for the last two years. I had caught the habit from my elder cousin. I am suffering from memory loss and fatigue,” Jamil Khan, a red-eyed young student, narrated his ...

Lebanon’s anti-drug squad and the handful of soldiers protecting them had an unpleasant surprise last month when they launched an annual raid on fields of ripe hashish in the northern Bekaa Valley.

Reporting from Tangi Abresham, Afghanistan — Gula Jan ground a small amount of hashish, about the size of a marble, in his hand. He mixed it with tobacco and carefully rolled it into a cigarette. Then ...

In a village in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Syrians from Raqqa have been coming to harvest cannabis for almost a decade. Now, Raqqa is under Islamic State control and the border crossing is more difficult ...

He left France at 18 for a nearly two-decade sojourn to India, Nepal, Mexico and Morocco to learn the secrets of making hash and became an authority. By Richard Sandomir Frenchy Cannoli, a renowned ...

Five individuals were arrested in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, for their involvement in a hashish oil trafficking network.

In a significant operation against inter-state drug trafficking, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB), Visakhapatnam Zonal Unit ...

I was just over in Germany for the Berlin Bar Convent and while I was there I led a panel on cannabis and beverages. Afterwards I spent some time wandering around the city parks. I had many ...