The original war was about the same time as the American war on drugs started. Pre. The Russia v Afghanistan war there was lots of top quality Lebonese hash in Europe, rumour had it that the CIA used to smuggle it into Europe and used the proceeds in a slush fund to fight the terrorists (Russians,Libyans,afghans,Iranians ect.) when the Russian conflict started in Afghanistan they seized the supply route for the hash and diverted it to America and used the proceeds to fight their war in the middle East. Get caught in either Russia or parts of America with a small amount of the same hash and they will bang you up for it, sell thousands of tons of it to fight wars with is cool, just don't get caught, funny old world ain't it?