Explaining to the League of Nations why it had not destroyed cannabis fields as Egypt demanded, the French mandate administration wrote that hemp was a source of income for some districts that could not easily be replaced in a single season. A Lebanese ministerial report of August 1929 described large proprietors in the Baalbek district refusing to destroy their crops and keeping peasants from entering their land to cut the banned hemp. Russell Pasha reported that the peasants grew it on the orders of notables who sat in the local governments.[1]
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References
- Intoxicating Zion: A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and IsraelHaggai Ram · Stanford University Press · 2020 · Chapter 1, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine Step In · ISBN 9781503613928
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