Enforcement 2007 🇱🇧 Lebanon

Lebanon abandons crop eradication after farmers open fire

Police estimated that about 6,500 hectares of cannabis had been planted in the northern Bekaa, the largest crop since the 1980s. The year's eradication campaign was called off after farmers shot at the police.^[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

TIME — Nicholas Blanford, A comeback for Lebanon's hashish (16 October 2007)archived

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