Morocco allows its local cannabis variety, beldiya, in the legal programme

From the beginning of 2024 the cannabis regulator authorised the use of beldiya, the local variety, under a protocol drawn up with the food safety office and following first results of a study with the national agronomic research institute. By August it had granted 106 authorisations covering 1,916 hectares to cooperatives of 1,816 farmers. The first legal plantings in 2023 had used imported seed.^[1]^[2]

In the cultural atlas

Language · English, from German Landrasse, "country breed"LandraceA farmers' variety, kept by saving seed in the place where it grows rather than bred to a standard. The word came from German agronomy and, in cannabis, names the old local populations of the hashish and ganja regions, many of them lost to hybrids and eradication. Morocco now licenses its own, beldiya.

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References

Atalayar — Margarita Arredondas, Morocco issues more than 3,000 authorisations for the legal use of cannabis (21 August 2024)archived
Hespress English — First legal cultivation of 'Beldia' cannabis begins (3 July 2024)archived

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