KABUL, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- Afghan security forces destroyed 19,761 hectares of land used for cultivating poppy and hashish across the country in 2025, deputy government spokesman Hamdullah Fitrat ...

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 ...

Hashish, a marijuana product that’s gotten people stoned for centuries, has spawned a new generation of cannabis concentrates that are in such high demand they’re poised to become the most popular way ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

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 ...

Onboard a European sailboat, Brazilian authorities made a record seizure of marijuana resin, also known as hashish, appearing to confirm the existence of a small but steady trans-Atlantic drug route ...

During a major crackdown against drug-peddlers, police arrested two cops who are real brothers and recovered more than one mound of hashish from their custody in Lahore. According to details, ...

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 ...

In 1798 Napoleon invaded Egypt, the first step on his campaign to establish a French kingdom there and, in time, to drive on to India. He was expelled in 1801. Before then, however, his troops had ...