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The page treats manzul, the Egyptian hashish sweet named at the Second Opium Conference in 1924 and described by Bouquet (1950).
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- League of Nations, Records of the Second Opium Conference, vol. I, p. 133 (Gokhale Institute scan, text layer): El Guindy's memorandum, "(a) In the form of a paste made from the resin obtained from the crushed leaves and flowers, which is mixed with sugar and cooked with butter and aromatic substances and is used to make sweets, confectionery, etc."
- Bouquet (1950), Bulletin on Narcotics (UNODC web edition, no page numbers): the manzul type, its ingredients, the discs, and the comparison with helwa.
- Hashish cites the same memorandum through Willoughby (1925), p. 375.
Is it cannabis?
- Both sources make it from hashish (cannabis resin).
Kind and plant part
- Sweet. Resin.
- First recorded: 1924, the date of the memorandum in the conference record (published 1925).
- Still made: not known from the sources cited.