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Cannabis culture in Morocco (in english)

Cannabis culture in Morocco (in english)

Cannabis is the most used drug in the world. That’s why it is important to know about its provenance. The Moroccan Rif is the biggest world wide centre for production and exportation of hashish.

Morocco is a poor country. In the mountain Rif, near than 100 000 families depends on cannabis culture for a living. And there is no alternative ways of earning a life for the hash farmers of the Rif. More about, if cannabis is a real society problem in Europe, it is absolutely not the case in morocco: there is no restriction against the kif culture. There are no morals rules too: Moroccans smokes themselves (it’s a tradition for them) and the Islamic religion has nothing against cannabis. Otherwise, since king Mohamed V in the 50’s till real soon, the Moroccan government leads a blind eyes polity. Few decades ago, the Moroccan health minister declared: “cannabis does not kill, hunger does.”

However, because of the pression exercised by the occidental who assumes an anti-drug policy, if cannabis is tolerated, it still is forbidden. So, the cannabis business is not controlled at all. And the drift of this kind of business is dangerous: cannabis culture is to be taken by any kind of mafias. The kif business can be a financing for such associations like terrorist (including terrorist gangs against morocco itself like in Casablanca in the 90’s). The other mafia which profits of the green gold can be the one which organizes the business of illegal immigrants who want to go to Europe (from Black Africa to Europe through Spain).

As a conclusion we can say that the cannabis in morocco is typical of the bipolar world of today. Kif exploitation concretizes all North/South relations as: immigration, poverty, terrorism, politic interference.

Cannabis sativa, Leonhart Fuchs, in De Historia Stirpium, 1542

Cannabis sativa, Leonhart Fuchs, in De Historia Stirpium, 1542

Cannabis culture in Morocco (in english)
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