The mandate that put Syria and Lebanon under French rule in 1922 bound France, in its article 12, to apply the drug conventions there, and the first control measures date from the 1920s. After the Geneva convention of 1925 the League took up the campaign against cannabis and placed French enforcement under international supervision, as the two territories became major producers. The French, weak in the countryside and dependent on landowners, are described as having enforced the rules theatrically, to satisfy Geneva without alienating their allies.[1][2]
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