... a dried herb (usually known as grass), as a resin (usually known as hash or hashish) that is extracted from the buds and flower heads and as a sticky liquid (hash oil) which is prepared from the resin. The exact origins of cannabis have never been clearly defined; however the wild version is believed to have originated in Central Asia. Historians believe that it was one of the first crops to be cultivated by man for its fibre, and the ancient Chinese are believed to have been especially adept at is cultivation in using the hemp fibres to make textiles, fishing nets, ropes and mats. It is the male part of the plant that produces the tough fibres from which hemp cloth and rope is made and the female that generates the sticky aromatic resins of the plant. The whereabouts of cannabis is thought to have reached Europe by 600 BC, ...

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