Culture & science 2002 🇱🇧 Lebanon

Lebanon's cannabis fields double in a year

Ten years after the eradication carried out under American pressure, poverty had pushed many farmers of the Bekaa back to cannabis, and in 2002 the crop covered 37,000 acres, twice the area of the year before.^[1]

Eradication

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

Wikipedia — Cannabis in Lebanon archived

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