The second part of our little journey into the stuff that makes cannabis people say, "Oh, that's nice." Last time, we followed hash across the world. From charas in the Himalayas to Moroccan hash, from bhang in India to the legendary Thai Stick era, we looked at how cannabis resin became part of completely different cultures. But we stopped just before things got really interesting. Because once you start looking at hash today, you quickly realize that "hash" is not really on

Hash, hashish, hasj, charas, bhang: the history of hash is a very long trip from ancient cannabis culture to your grinder. There is something funny about hash. A cannabis flower looks like a plant. Hash looks like someone took the best part of that plant, squeezed it into a little brown lump, and said, "Yeah, that's enough." And somehow, people have been doing some version of this for a very, very long time. Long before strains had names. Long before anyone was arguing about