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hashish
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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2009
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hash·ish
/ ˈhaˌshēsh/
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n.
an extract of the cannabis plant, containing concentrations of the psychoactive resins.
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The hashish trail
Newspaper article from: The Press; 11/18/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...officers had their hands on 2.5kg of hashish at Lyttelton. They then carefully repacked...and Customs found $125,000 worth of hashish hidden in the Porsche 944 Turbo Black...High Court trial. This means that some hashish was replaced in the rear tyre of the car...
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POLICE FIND ONE-HECTARE HASHISH FIELD IN MADINA.
News Wire article from: ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia); 11/29/2008; 482 words
; ...district recently discovered a one-hectare hashish field on the slope of Mt Tor Sihite...Madina, North Sumtra province. The hashish field was found thanks to a tip-off...about one hectare wide, planted with hashish. On Friday at 6 am Western Indonesian...
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350 kg hashish haul in eastern Nepal
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 7/18/2006; 346 words
; 350 kg hashish haul in eastern Nepal KATHMANDU, July...arrested three persons along with 350 kg of hashish in eastern Nepal, local police officer...impounded a truck and seized 350 kg of hashish from 32 different parcels on local Lahan...
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Danish police detain dozens in crackdown on hashish at Copenhagen's hippie enclave
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 3/16/2004; ; 560 words
; ...a major crackdown on the open sale of hashish. The drugs are illegal in Denmark, though authorities have tolerated the sale of hashish in Christiania, a counterculture oasis...removed tables "that have been used to sell hashish," Copenhagen police spokesman Flemming...
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Police: Moroccan hashish appearing locally via Egypt and Jordan
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post; 7/11/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...11-2005 Headline: Police: Moroccan hashish appearing locally via Egypt and Jordan...scene: the appearance on the streets of hashish originating from Morocco. Northern Region...kilograms of "extremely high quality" hashish. "We believe that this material originated...
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Police stage major hashish crackdown at Copenhagen's hippie enclave
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 3/16/2004; ; 449 words
; ...in a major crackdown on the open sale of hashish there. Drugs are illegal in Denmark, but sales of hashish in the downtown enclave known as Christiania...going after some known individuals who sell hashish," Copenhagen police spokesman Flemming...
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Police pledge to continue hashish crackdown in Danish hippie enclave
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 1/5/2004; ; 565 words
; ...demolished the stands where they sold hashish from for decades. Drugs are illegal in Denmark but sales of hashish in Christiania were tolerated. Residents...Steen Munch said. "The open sale of hashish continues and that means that we will...
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FOUR MEN SENTENCED IN FEDERAL COURT FOR THEIR ROLES IN AN INTERNATIONAL HASHISH CONSPIRACY
PR Newswire; 2/9/1993; 700+ words
; ...involved in an international conspiracy to import hashish into the United States pleaded guilty and were...resulted in the seizure of 6,393 pounds of hashish (2,906 kilograms). The hashish, which was grown in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon...
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Police Helped Themselves to Pakistanis' Hashish.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service; 11/13/2003; 700+ words
; ...weekend helped themselves to 2.5 tonnes of hashish seized from Pakistani traffickers over...cargo boat containing a consignment of hashish left the Kenyan port of Mombasa in April...in rubber dinghies. About 16 tonnes of hashish, packaged in coffee tins, came ashore...
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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HASHISH SEIZURE LEADS GRAND JURY TO INDICT 7 IN WORLDWIDE DRUG RING.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 2/7/1997; 652 words
; ...News Staff Writer Nearly 25 tons of hashish have been seized as evidence against...shipment of some $250 million worth of hashish by sea to Los Angeles, New York, Australia and elsewhere. Eight tons of hashish were seized in Australia, and the...
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hashish
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
hashish , resin extracted from the flower clusters...plant, Cannabis sativa, and C. indica. Hashish, called charas in India, is the most...grown in cooler climates. Like marijuana, hashish is usually smoked, but in a pipe or water...
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Marijuana
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Public Health
...The term "cannabis" refers to different psychoactive preparations of the plant, including marijuana, hashish, and hashish oil. Hashish is the resin produced by the flowering tops of the plants; hashish oil is a concentrated form of cannabis...
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Drug Trafficking
Book article from: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Illicit Drugs
...minimum sentence in prison. Punishments for marijuana, hashish, and hashish oil are shown in Table 8.2. Special penalties exist...kilograms of marijuana mixture, ten kilograms or less of hashish, or one kilogram or less of hashish oil may get a...
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Assassins
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...introduce alcohol, and more significantly, hashish use into the community. The word "assassin" means, literally, hashish user. The Niziriyah again moved their...men who resided in the fortress smoked hashish and learned the fine art of killing...
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The Assassins
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
...Hashashin, is derived from the Arabic "hashish," a name for Indian hemp ( cannabis...liberal use of the narcotic effects of hashish to achieve their fierce courage and to...them with generous amounts of the drug hashish, then hypnotically guided them to the...
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