Debate March 1990 🇱🇧 Lebanon

Lebanon plans to wean Bekaa farmers off hashish

The Hrawi cabinet approved 6 million dollars for a "green plan" of irrigation and fertiliser to help farmers in the Bekaa grow fruit and vegetables instead. The agriculture minister, Mohsen Dalloul, said 20 per cent of farmers grew hashish; a US drug official put Lebanon's share of the world hashish market at 20 per cent, 12 to 15 tonnes a year.^[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

Christian Science Monitor — Amy Kaslow, New Lebanese plan would fight hashish in the Bekaa Valley (7 March 1990)archived

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