Thomas Russell, head of Egypt's narcotics bureau, told the League of Nations in the late 1920s that when he joined the Egyptian service in 1902 all of Egypt's hashish came from Greece, and that around 1907 some people began growing it experimentally in the Lebanon district of Syria. As Greece curbed its own crop in the 1920s, he wrote, Lebanese growing increased enormously, and almost all of it went to Egypt.[1]
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References
- Intoxicating Zion: A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and IsraelHaggai Ram · Stanford University Press · 2020 · Chapter 1, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine Step In · ISBN 9781503613928
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