"Cigarette-tees" as hashish cigarettes are called are for sale at many shops.
But unlike opium, hashish is more or less socially acceptable here and widely used by Afghan men.
Inside, wrapped in unlaundered T-shirts and dog-proof layers of plastic, was half a pound of Turkish hashish.
The country in no way resembles its seductive image as a hashish-tinged Shangri-La of pagodas and Himalayan treks.
The peninsula's proximity to the hashish-and opium-producing regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan provides an irresistible temptation for some.
Iran lies next door to Afghanistan, where most of the world's opium is produced, as well as morphine and hashish.
The fifth Briton, Daniel Maalouf, 28, a Londoner of Lebanese origin, admits using hashish but denies possessing and selling hashish and cocaine.
He also denies possessing, selling and using cocaine, hashish and other tablets.
Anna Bartlett, 22, from Southend on Sea, Essex, admits importing cocaine and hashish but denies any intent to use, sell or trade them.
That has limited job growth, forcing many of the young into lowly tourism posts, such as hawking handicrafts (and hashish) on the beach.
Fellow Briton Stacy Simpson, 28, and his girlfriend Anne Kidd, 32, both from Leeds, deny collaborating with Ms Bartlett to import cocaine and hashish.
The ballet show is a new take on the story of Billy Hayes' six year incarceration in a Turkish prison after being caught smuggling hashish.
Jan Mohammad, a tenant farmer outside Kandahar City, spends nine hours a day filtering cannabis leaves and then kneading the residue into clumps of hashish.
Hassan refused to set foot there during his 38-year reign, a period when the Rif exported two main things: migrant workers escaping extreme poverty and hashish.
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Certainly, the sweet smell of Moroccan hashish wafts through the camps.
The Spanish intelligence services believe an al-Qaeda cell perpetrated and funded the Madrid train bombings with cash raised through the trade of hashish and other illicit drugs.
Mohammad's landlord, Ateegh the nephew of a top Kandahari government official sells the clumps of hashish to Pakistani smugglers who cross the border a 90-minute drive away.
In addition, Baluchi drug traffickers, who transport opium, heroin and hashish through Iran to Europe, fight frequent pitched battles with the army in the desolate stretches of desert surrounding Zahedan.
Frustrated by government attacks on their opium poppy crops, a growing number of farmers in Afghanistan are turning to a lucrative alternative that is just as illegal: cannabis, the source of marijuana and hashish.
The investigative reports show soldiers using other drugs, including steroids and marijuana, and even hashish that was sold to U.S. servicemen by the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police personnel, the reports state.
The Globe and Mail, citing anonymous sources who were involved in the drug trade, alleged that Doug Ford sold hashish for several years in the 1980s in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke, where the family grew up.
On August 20th, the country's Sharia radio station announced that the Taliban, the Islamic revivalist movement which controls much of the south and west where most of the heroin is produced had banned the production, sale and taking of both heroin and hashish.
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