Editing Hashish (section)

==European market==
[[File:Hashish.jpg|thumb|Hashish shown next to a {{convert|19|mm|in|frac=4|adj=on}} diameter [[U.S. penny]] for scale]]

According to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction ([[European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction|EMCDDA]]), Western Europe is the biggest market for cannabis resin with 70% of global seizures. However, the European hashish market is changing. Cannabis cultivation increased throughout the 1990s until 2004, with a noticeable decrease reported in 2005 according to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.<ref name="EMCDDA08" /> Historically, Morocco has been the major source for hashish. Lately, however, there has been a shift in the market, and Afghanistan has been named the major producer of hashish. Even though a drop in usage and production has been reported, Morocco produced around 6600 tonnes of resin in 2005.<ref name="EMCDDA08" />

As 641 tonnes of hashish were consumed in the EU in 2013, the European market is currently the world's largest and most profitable. Therefore, many players are involved in the business, including organised crime groups. The largest cannabis resin seizures in Europe happen in Portugal, due to its proximity to Northern Africa.<ref name="EMCDDA08" />

The 1990s "soap bars" disappeared and the physical shapes of hashish changed to melon shaped, tablets or olive shaped pellets. Overall the general trend of domestically grown cannabis displacing the imported resin leads to a market reaction of potency changes while the prices remain stable while soap-bar potency increased from 8% to up to 20.7% in 2014.<ref name="EMCDDA08" />

Generally, more resin than herb is consumed in Europe.<ref name="EMCDDA08" />