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Morocco battles dagga planting
Sowetan Tuesday 28 May 2013 The country's most notorious export has been cultivated in the traditionally rebellious northern region for centuries, where the climate for growing cannabis, or "kif", is considered ideal. Along the stunning valley that runs between the towns of Taounate and Issaguen, women work in the fields tending this year's emerging crop, while young dealers ply the 70km road in their cars looking for customers. But after a massive bust in Spain this month, the attention of European drug agencies is likely to focus again on the continent's main source of hashish - and on Moroccan efforts to stem the supply. Spanish police found 32 tons of the drug in a truck carrying melons from Morocco at the end of last month, and this month they discovered 52 tons at a warehouse in the southern Spanish city of Cordoba, setting a European record. Morocco's interior ministry insists it has spent heavily on tightening border controls and combating trafficking, while deploying "enormous human and material resources" to eliminating cannabis cultivation. The International Narcotics Control Board said in its latest report that 72% of cannabis resin seized by customs authorities worldwide in 2011 originated in Morocco. "Implementing a policy of alternative development is the cornerstone of our strategy in the fight against the supply of drugs," the ministry said. But an estimated 90000 households depend on kif production. Cannabis advocate Aberrahmane Hamoudani quips: "Kif doesn't kill you, but hunger does." http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/world/2013/05/29/morocco-battles-dagga-planting
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