“There are but few peole in this State who know that “hashish” the opium of Arabia, is raised, prepared, smoked and eaten in California”
Local Hashish Eaters
In this early 1895 article from San Francisco, we find evidence of cannabis already being grown under the warm Californian sun for drug production…
Prices for hash in San Francisco in 1895? 65cents domestic / 75cents import
“the Arabs and Armenians or Turks are growing twenty acres of hemp near Stockton. They tell the farmers that it is for bird seed, but that is not all. They make and smoke kiff and send large quantities of hashish to this city”
The San Francisco call, June 24, 1895
