5. Cannabis type drugs refer to cannabis products such as hashish and marijuana.

He is alleged to be dealing in marijuana (probably in the form of hashish).

Hashish refers to cannabis resin, while marijuana usually refers to the dried parts of the plant.

An illustration of such a transition is the hashish trafficking group that became involved in the Madrid bombings of 11 March 2004.

Moreover, this linkage facilitated the financing of the operation the explosives used in the bombings were purchased with both money and hashish.

At the same time, the programme will address the relatively new phenomenon of trafficking of tonnes of hashish from Africa in containers.

So, Arafat used to get a percentage of the smuggling of hashish from Bekáa Valley, which is the valley between Lebanon and Syria.

As the two friends got out of the pickup to clean its floor of hashish residue, shots from an unknown location were heard.

Thus, 500,000 inhabitants of the Bekaa valley, who had once lived off the cultivation of hashish and opium, were now seeking new sources of income.

2.1 In the evening of 1 April 1998, Angelos Celal (henceforth Mr. Celal) and two friends, Messrs. F and R, consumed hashish in Mr. Celal's pickup truck.

During the peak years, some 5,000 hectares of opium poppy and 16,000 hectares of cannabis were cultivated, producing 3 to 5 tonnes of heroin and 545 to 1,000 tonnes of hashish annually.

The Group also pointed out that several Somali warlords were said to be involved in smuggling hashish from an Asian country into Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania on Somali vessels and small boats.

For example, three persons were beaten publicly for smoking hashish in Jalalabad and a dozen men were arrested for gambling and were taken through the streets of Kabul with blackened faces and money pinned to their clothes.

Where law and order were disrupted or non existent, organized crime syndicates approached illiterate and poor Afghan farmers, provided them with cash payments and credits, and persuaded them to cultivate opium poppy and cannabis for the production of hashish.

The Government had established contact with, and facilitated mutual understanding between, the farmers and the mujahidin commanders, already resulting in a substantial reduction in the production of poppy and hashish in the western, southern and eastern provinces of the country in 1995 and 1996.

Noting with appreciation the Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 1996,3 in which the Board drew the attention of the international community to the global demand reduction situation, especially with regard to the rising trend in abuse of psychotropic substances, heroin and hashish,

In addition to the locally produced opium and cannabis, large amounts of opium, morphine, heroin and hashish produced in south west Asia are trafficked into central Asia across the Afghan border with Tajikistan, as well as across the Afghan borders with Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan.

However, with the introduction of the Hudood Ordinances in 1979, purportedly to give effect to Islamic law, there was renewed use of corporal punishment for ordinary crimes. For example, Amnesty International cites Pakistani media as reporting that, as recently as 8 October 1995, two Irishmen were flogged with five lashes in Peshawar Central Jail on conviction for smuggling hashish.

In fact, in 1997, 2,455.550 kg of heroin, 13,357.817 kg of hashish, 4,255.14 kg of morphine base, 1,125.258 kg of cannabis, 22,440.440 kg of acetic anhydride, 100 g of cocaine, 20,000 amphetamine tablets and 1,080 kg of sodium bicarbonate that were confiscated in Turkey were found to be linked with the PKK and 551 PKK offenders were caught in connection with the issue.