Culture & science 2011 🇱🇧 Lebanon

Lebanon's cannabis farms expand as the Syrian war draws the army away

From 2011 the fields grew again while the government's attention was on security during the war in Syria. In 2014 a news agency reported farms flourishing as the army looked the other way.^[1]

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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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