Hashish (pronounced It's believed that hash first originated from Middle East, as this region was among the first to be populated by the cannabis plant, although the plant itself's thought to have originated in the Hindu Kush. More reliably, it may have originated in Northern India which also has a very long social tradition in the production of Hashish which's locally known as Charas. Cannabis sativa subsp. indica grows wild almost everywhere in the Indian sub-continent and special strains hav… (More on Hashish)