Enforcement August 2012 🇱🇧 Lebanon

Bekaa clans fight the army to save their cannabis fields

Three Shia clans of the Bekaa, the Jaafar, Shammas and Sharif, fought gun battles with soldiers and police to stop the annual destruction of their fields, and residents of Yammouneh blocked the road with burning tyres. The interior minister visited the village and promised compensation.^[1]

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In the cultural atlas

TraditionsHashish in the BekaaThe farmers of Lebanon's northern Bekaa valley have grown cannabis for hashish through a century of bans, a civil war and repeated campaigns to destroy their fields. In 2020 Lebanon became the first Arab country to license the crop, for medicine.

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References

Christian Science Monitor — Nicholas Blanford, Farmers, government battle over hashish in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley (7 August 2012)archived

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