Snippy Cutwell
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Polish chocolate bars
Wedel vs. Alpinella
MMM Wedel clearly superior
and a buck cheaper than Alpinella
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@MurrayManera @archeohistories fortunately I know how to make it
and sometimes do 🙂
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Tirah valley - the land of pure hashish .....
In the heart of Tirah Valley, a farmer keeps the old traditions alive, selling his hash bucket and chopping it with an axe to measure the weight. A glimpse into the rugged, timeless practices of the valley, mountainous region located in Orakzai District and southern part of Khyber District, positioned between Khyber Pass and Khanki Valley in Pakistan 🇵🇰
Pakistan today is a conservative, Islamic country, but it was a far different place in its younger days. In 1960s and '70s, Pakistan's elite, many of them educated in West, could publicly indulge in more liberal acts, including drinking alcohol. Pakistan was also part of "hippie trail," from Türkiye to India, which young Westerners traveled.
Today, trekking through the secret, narrow passes in the mountains of Tirah, Landikotal and Jamrud tehsils of Khyber Agency, Haji Zubair Afridi and his aides smuggle goatskins in a pickup through Kacharo Kosa. Hidden underneath it are kilos of hashish – what Afridi refers to as his “black gold.”
Their final destination is a clandestine warehouse in Jamrud Bazaar, where Zubair exchanges the animal skin for bundles of cash. He hands out Rs5,000 to the pickup driver and Rs3,000 to a teenage assistant. The rough terrain, he says, has nothing much to offer except for the unending clashes between rival groups. It is, however, rich in abundance as far as hashish is concerned.
The moderate climate and red soil make it a child’s play for Tirah Maidan’s local farmers to grow cannabis. The crop’s stems are hung for two weeks to dry, after which a thin cloth is used to carefully thresh the plant to extract the dust power called “garda.”
Converting garda into consumable hashish is a long process. It must be wrapped inside a fresh goatskin for as long as three months until it turns into a greenish black substance. One skin can contain around 10 kilogrammes of garda.
The skin provides the oil needed to solidify ingredients, said Nisar Afridi, a veteran hashish dealer. The longer the garda is kept inside the skin, the better it tastes. June, July and August are the best months to do this, but direct sunlight should be avoided so the final product is not dry, he added.
Hashish is supplied to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa as well as Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi where consumers are willing to pay nearly 10 times more than those in Jamrud, Nisar said.
“We don’t transport it. We just sell it in the agency,” he said, adding that people buy it from them and smuggle it through the Karkhano check post on mules, horses and in vehicles.
Taj Muhammad, a real estate agent and builder in Hayatabad, while loading his cigarette with moist green hashish said that if the hashish is dry, it loses its effect and gives a headache. He has been addicted to it for 15 years and believes it is less harmful than tobacco.
There are no official statistics on total hashish production in the valley. A tribesman familiar with the matter, however, said that a banned outfit controls the price and is heavily invested in the business. In November and December last year, a kilogramme was being sold for Rs65,000 while in June, July and August, the supply increased, dropping the price down to Rs45,000. There are about 250 shops selling hashish in the Wazir Dandh area, Jamrud.
Wahid Gul Afridi, a khasadar force official, is known for recovering thousands of kilogrammes of hashish and has been especially posted at a checkpoint to do just this.
“My instincts can catch hashish dealers, even when the drugs are hidden in vehicles,” he said, adding that he can sense traffickers by their “strange looks”. Gul claims that his resolve has not been broken by the numerous bribes offered to him. “I do this work to get a promotion; I don’t do it for bribes.”
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© Mohammad Irfan / The Tribune
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@BertaProudDad how did this
repellent little foreign man
weasel his way
into our politics?
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Yeah we know that and our Corrupt RCMP will do nothing about it. All of our Judges are corrupt to.
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I’m just going to leave this right here…..
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Seen this in a group on FB. If you’d have read this 11 years ago you’d be thinking WTH is this person even talking about and where do they live? Now it’s just…… yup.
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@CTVVancouver just maid them
and give their homes to foreigners
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Alberta's separatists are running into an administrative snag, as rural homeowners often use PO boxes rather than physical addresses on their government-issued IDs
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@MurrayManera When he gives sleep to his loved ones
Behold the inheritance of the Lord's son
reward the fruit of the belly
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