Morocco is set to allow the production and sale of cannabis in the kingdom in an attempt to help ease pressure on farmers in the Rif mountains. The government said on Thursday that the farming, export ...

Moroccan hashish suppliers are refusing to sell to Israeli dealers in protest against the war in Gaza, according to a report in Israeli media on Friday. The Israeli news site Mako cited several ...

Dealers of highly-prized Moroccan hashish are severing ties with Israeli drug smugglers. They are boycotting Israeli dealers in protest at the killing of Palestinians in Gaza, said a report. The ...

Long-term storage of Moroccan cannabis resin leads to major chemical changes that could create new opportunities for medical use, says a study carried out by a team from the Royal Gendarmerie’s ...

In the vast Rif region of Morocco, cannabis farms stretch as far as the eye can see. This illegal trade is a lucrative one, yet many of the half a million Moroccans farming the crop live between ...

Morocco’s first legal cannabis harvest was 294 metric tons in 2023, after the country approved its cultivation and export for medicine and industrial uses, the cannabis regulator has said said. The ...

After decades without legal cover, farmer Mohamed Morabet looks forward to selling his hashish this summer on the open market now that Morocco plans to legalise cannabis for medical use. The ...

A massive crackdown by Moroccan authorities on the country’s multi-billion-pound cannabis industry has disrupted Scotland’s organised crime groups. Record-breaking seizures of the drug by law ...

BBC Arabic reporter Emir Nader explores how cannabis is cultivated, trafficked and consumed, from the remote Rif mountains in Morocco to the chilled-out coffee-shops of Amsterdam. Show more BBC Arabic ...