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L'étude de la proposition de loi relative à l’amnistie des cultivateurs de kif ajournée
Friday, 10 January 2020Il faudra s’armer de patience pour connaître la position du gouvernement au sujet des deux propositions de loi portées par le PAM, au sujet de la légalisation du cannabis et l’amnistie des cultivateu ...
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The Moroccan government agrees to discuss draft laws on cannabis cultivation
Friday, 03 January 2020The Moroccan government is planning to discuss two draft laws submitted by the Party of Authenticity and Modernity (PAM) to «reduce the prosecution of farmers» and «legalize the production of cannabi ...
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Cannabis sales in EU raise $13 billion for crime gangs
Tuesday, 26 November 2019Europeans spent at least 11.6 billion euros (£9.9 billion) in 2017 on illegal cannabis purchases, confirming marijuana as the largest drugs market in the 28-country European Union, the European Monit ...
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Moroccco takes up foreign marijuana hybrids
Thursday, 10 October 2019Morocco’s rugged Rif Mountains have long been renowned for their cannabis but traditional varieties are being smoked out by foreign hybrids offering higher yields and greater potency. The local strai ...
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Cannabis: le Maroc peut-il surfer sur la vague verte?
Tuesday, 24 September 2019Le pétrole vert du Maroc fait saliver les nouvelles industries émergentes qui promettent des produits miracles à base de cannabis. Malgré les perspectives économiques prometteuses qui s'offrent au pa ...
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Maroc : la question de la légalisation de la production de cannabis de nouveau à l’ordre du jour
Friday, 06 September 2019Au début de l’été, le conseil de Tanger-Tétouan-Al Hoceïma a voté en faveur de la commande d’une étude sur les opportunités de cultiver du cannabis dans la région. Le rapport serait confié à l’Instit ...
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BBC documentary exposes hashish farmers’ vulnerability and officials' alleged involvement
Friday, 26 April 2019A BBC Arabic documentary tried to answer a daring question on hash cultivation in Morocco. Entitled Who is Getting Rich from Moroccan Hash?, the project investigated «the production, consumption and ...
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Fair(er) Trade Options for the Cannabis Market
Thursday, 21 March 2019Policy changes over the past five years or so have dramatically reshaped the global cannabis market. Not only has there been an unprecedented boom in medical markets, but following policy shifts in s ...
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In Moroccan cannabis fields, illumination of Jewish role in country’s hash trade
Tuesday, 12 March 2019“The Jews in general did not grow cannabis,” explains Dr. Doron Danino, an expert on Moroccan Jewry. “But they received a monopoly from the king for the sale of tobacco in Morocco, and that included ...
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Ce que gagnerait le Maroc à légaliser le cannabis
Monday, 11 March 2019Mohamed Ben Amar, professeur de pharmacologie à l’Université de Montréal, connaît bien ces questions et milite pour une légalisation du cannabis, notamment pour un usage médical. Et il ne manque pas ...
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Cannabis: Le commerce international s’organise… sauf au Maroc
Friday, 01 March 2019Depuis 2013, pas moins de dix Etats américains et la capitale fédérale, ainsi que le Canada et l’Uruguay, ont autorisé l’usage légal du cannabis pour leurs résidents adultes. Le Mexique, le Luxembour ...
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Cannabis farms cover 500 square kilometers of Northern Morocco
Friday, 18 January 2019Between 47,000 and 50,000 hectares, mainly in the Rif region, are planted with cannabis in Morocco, the National Narcotics Commission (CNS) said. Mohamed Andaloussi, the president of the Azir Associa ...
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Maroc : «La prohibition de l’usage récréatif et thérapeutique du cannabis est un échec total»
Monday, 31 December 2018Alors qu’une trentaine de pays à travers le monde dépénalisent et financent l’usage thérapeutique du cannabis, le producteur numéro un mondial nage toujours à contresens. Au Maroc, la production, la ...
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Cannabis strength doubles across Europe in 11 years
Sunday, 30 December 2018Cannabis potency has doubled across Europe in the past decade, according to the first study to track changes in the drug across the continent. The study, published in the journal Addiction and conduc ...
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New gangs 'Uberise' Europe's cocaine supply and bring more violence
Friday, 14 December 2018A surge in the supply of pure cocaine to Europe has led to a rise in drug-related murders as new criminal gangs muscle into a market previously dominated by the mafia, the EU drugs agency has said. T ...
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Cannabis: Le Maroc doit-il franchir le pas de la légalisation?
Saturday, 27 October 2018La légalisation du cannabis n'est plus un tabou dans le monde. Plusieurs pays ont légiféré dans ce domaine. Selon certains observateurs, le Maroc ne peut rester en marge de ces changements, eu égard ...
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Canada's legalization of marijuana could hurt farmers in poorer countries
Wednesday, 17 October 2018For decades poor farmers in countries like Jamaica and Morocco have risked the wrath of governments to grow cannabis as a cash crop. But as Canada becomes the first country in the G7 leading industri ...
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Un Marocain raconte comment sa famille contrôlait le trafic du haschich entre le royaume et la France
Saturday, 13 October 2018« C’est ma grand-mère maternelle qui a commencé à importer du shit en France », raconte Salim*, dont la famille, dit-il, contrôlait le trafic de shit entre le Maroc et la France. Ce rifain originaire ...
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Pays-Bas : Le haschich marocain s’invite à la Chambre basse
Tuesday, 25 September 2018Le trafic et la commercialisation du cannabis marocain aux Pays-Bas sont actuellement étudiés par les partis politiques néerlandais. Plusieurs propositions ont été faites, l’une d’elle serait d’en di ...
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Maroc : Le kif, une drogue néfaste pour l’environnement rifain
Sunday, 17 June 2018Dans un article fouillé, EFE est récemment partie à la rencontre d’acteurs associatifs locaux du Rif, qui alertent sur les dangers environnementaux de la culture non réglementée du cannabis. Mohamed ...
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Chefchaouen-Ouazzane: nouvelles tensions entre cultivateurs de cannabis à cause du manque d'eau
Thursday, 17 May 2018La région de Chefchaouen et Ouazzane est le théâtre d'une guerre pour l’eau entre les cultivateurs de cannabis. Plusieurs accrochages ont été enregistrés entre plusieurs cultivateurs de cannabis dans ...
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Trafic de cannabis : Le PAM et l'Istiqlal appellent à la libération des personnes poursuivies
Tuesday, 15 May 2018La nécessité d’inscrire les noms des personnes poursuives pour trafic de cannabis dans les zones du Nord sur la liste des bénéficiaires de la grâce royale est une revendication du Parti de l’authenti ...
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Morocco's farmers are now producing high-quality Rosin and BHO
Monday, 30 April 2018In the final part of our series on the recent changes to the cannabis industry in Morocco, we’ll take a closer look at the new extraction methods gaining popularity among the farmers of the Rif. This ...
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Morocco’s cannabis farmers are radically overhauling their grow methods
Thursday, 04 January 2018On a recent visit to the Rif region of Northern Morocco, we observed a dramatic and widespread evolution in cannabis cultivation techniques. We have previously reported on the rise of modern hybrid v ...
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Lawlessness on cannabis attracts more tourists in Morocco
Monday, 04 December 2017It may not feature in Morocco’s official tourism brochures but cannabis attracts thousands of visitors a year to the North African country. Northern Morocco is a key production centre for hashish for ...
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The green gold rush: Could Africa be on the verge of a weed race?
Monday, 09 October 2017Several African governments are considering tapping a lucrative natural resource. More than 10,000 tons of cannabis are produced on the continent each year, according to a UN survey, which advocates ...
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The new Moroccan hashish
Friday, 29 September 2017A simple drive through the Rif region of Morocco, where all the cannabis is cultivated, confirms that cannabis cultivation has largely declined in the past few years. Yet no such visual observation c ...
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Some Arab governments are rethinking harsh cannabis laws
Wednesday, 12 April 2017The Moroccan authorities look at the issue from the other direction. Though the government bans the production of cannabis, its growth is tolerated in the Rif, a northern region that supplies Europe. ...
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“High Time” for Bio-Cannabis in Morocco
Tuesday, 04 April 2017The Moroccan cannabis industry seems to have no immediate plans of cutting back on its productivity. In fact, there’s a new seed in town. Cultivators are now planting “bio-cannabis.” The golden age o ...
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«Une grande partie de l’argent du haschich ne profite pas à l’économie marocaine»
Thursday, 30 March 2017Début mars, un rapport du département d’Etat américain a fait grand bruit, affirmant que la « production de cannabis » au Maroc équivalait à 23 % du produit intérieur brut marocain (PIB), qui s’est é ...
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Morocco and Cannabis
Friday, 10 March 2017This policy briefing discusses whether or not the aim of reducing cannabis cultivation is realistic or beneficial for Morocco, what it would actually mean for the major production area the Rif – one ...
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Drug control policy fuels social unrest in northern Morocco
Wednesday, 08 February 2017For the past three months, the Rif region in northern Morocco has been experiencing widespread protests and social unrest following the death of Mouhcine Fikri, a 31-year-old fish vendor who was crus ...
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The Global Forum of Producers of Prohibited Plants (GFPPP)
Thursday, 27 October 2016The voices of affected communities involved in the cultivation of coca leaf, opium poppy and cannabis plants are lacking in the global debate on drug policy reform in general and were at risk of bein ...
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Législatives : Le PAM ressort la carte de la grâce des cultivateurs de kif
Sunday, 14 August 2016Comme lors de la campagne électorale du scrutin du 4 septembre 2015, le PAM rejoue la carte de la culture du kif dans les régions concernées. Le Tracteur promet une grâce générale au profit de 40 000 ...
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Moroccan party leader calls for moderate consumption of cannabis
Friday, 10 June 2016Ilyass El Omari, President of the Regional Council of Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, proposed to allow cannabis to be sold legally in cafes. The Secretary General of the Authenticity and Modernity Party ...
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Une agence de régulation pour le cannabis?
Friday, 01 April 2016Quelle différence entre un joint et une cigarette normale? Rien ou presque, selon les partisans de la régulation du cannabis. Dans le cas du tabac, il s’agit d’une activité dont la culture, la produc ...
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PAM organizes international conference on cannabis cultivation
Monday, 21 March 2016A first international conference on drugs and cannabis was organised in Tangier by Ilyass El Omari, president of the Regional Council of Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima. Under the motto “All for alternati ...
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Istiqlal party and PAM advocate the legalization of marijuana
Wednesday, 30 December 2015Ilyas El Omari, President of the Regional Council of Tangier-Tetouan and Al Hoceima, revealed that a group of researchers are working on a study about cannabis cultivation to highlight more data on t ...
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Moroccan opposition party, PAM, wants public agency to sell cannabis
Wednesday, 16 December 2015Morocco’s Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM) called for the establishment of a public agency for the sale of cannabis, introducing a bill to create a "national agency for the culture of cannabis, ...
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Les partis politiques demandent la dépénalisation du cannabis
Monday, 13 July 2015«Je trouve l’attitude de l’Union européenne (UE) d’un cynisme sans pareil», selon Nourdin Moudiane, président du Parti de l’Istiqlal (PI). «D’une part, elle cultive du cannabis, en France, aux Pays-B ...
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No to the cultivation of cannabis in Morocco: Interior Minister
Tuesday, 30 June 2015The Moroccan Minister of Interior, Mohamed Hassad said that the Moroccan government will not authorize the cultivation of cannabis in the country. "The cultivation of kif and its commercialization ar ...
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Morocco’s major opposition party calls for legalization of cannabis
Sunday, 24 May 2015Hamid Chabat, Secretary General of the Istiqlal Party, one of Morocco’s major opposition political parties, has once again called for the legalization of cannabis. Chabat called for the reorientation ...
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Chabat calls for amnesty for cannabis farmers
Tuesday, 24 March 2015Hamid Chabat, Secretary General of the Istiqlal Party, one of Morocco's major opposition political parties, has again called for amnesty for cannabis growers in the north of the kingdom. He said that ...
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Morocco likely to join countries that legalized cultivation of cannabis
Thursday, 09 October 2014After the Istiqlal party, one of the old conservative parties of Morocco, proposed last year a draft law to decriminalize and regulate the cultivation of cannabis for medical and pharmaceutical uses, ...
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Breaking taboo, Morocco may okay pot in nod to struggling farmers
Monday, 06 October 2014Morocco’s marijuana farmers live in a strange limbo in which the brilliant green fields are left alone, while the growers themselves face constant police harassment. A new draft law may bring some re ...
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La légalisation du cannabis est inévitable selon un expert en politique des drogues
Thursday, 24 July 2014La légalisation du cannabis fait peu à peu son chemin dans le monde, suscitant un débat politique qui dure depuis l'an dernier au Maroc. Après que l’Uruguay a carrément autorisé la commercialisation ...
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Violents affrontements entre autorités et cultivateurs de kif
Tuesday, 15 July 2014Le 7 juillet dernier, une violente altercation a opposé les forces de l'ordre aux cultivateurs de cannabis dans la tribu de Beni Barbar car les autorités auraient voulu détruire des champs de kifs. L ...
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La majorité se greffe au débat sur le cannabis
Thursday, 03 July 2014Le PJD est été pris de court par ces deux partis qui avaient fait de la défense de la légalisation de la culture de cannabis, et de l’appel à une amnistie au profit des agriculteurs poursuivis par la ...
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Débat sur le kif: le coup de gueule des cultivateurs
Thursday, 26 June 2014Avec les élections municipales qui approchent (2015), le débat sur le kif s'en trouve plus "sexy" que jamais. Un collectif de familles de cultivateurs de cannabis, réunis au sein de l'association Ama ...
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Légalisation du cannabis: un projet de loi et des critiques
Thursday, 26 June 2014Si le Collectif marocain pour l'usage médical et industriel du kif (CMUMIK) voit d'un bon oeil la proposition de loi du parti de l'Istiqlal sur la légalisation partielle du cannabis, il n'en approuve ...
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