1940s Greek hashish smoking tradition fades. Red Lebanese reaches California. The Brotherhood popularizes Afghani hashish. Lebanese red and blonde hashish of very high-quality exported. The highest quality Turkish hashish from Gaziantep near Syria appears in western Europe.
Westerners bring metal sieve cloths to Afghanistan.
Huge fields of Cannabis cultivated for hashish production in Afghanistan. 1973 Afghan government makes hashish production and sales illegal. Afghani harves is pitifully small. Cannabis varieties from Afghanistan imported into Kashmir for sieved hashish production. Most private stashes of pre-war Afghani hashish in Amsterdam, Goa, and America are nearly finished.