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Another Starting Point of Drug Trafficking: Morocco
April 25, 2008 | | Leave a Comment
By Violet Wang (the 10th post)
The production of cannabis resin (also known as\ hashish) is also largely concentrated in North Africa (Morocco), besides central Asia, according to U.N. Office of Drugs and Crime. And the route of trafficking in cannabis resin is significantly inter-regional. from
North Africa (Morocco) to West and Central Europe.
Morocco, the north African country, which was the biggest supplier of hashish in the world, has now cut production of the crop by almost 50% over the past three years. The Moroccan government had said it plans to completely eradicate cannabis by 2008.
However, Khalid Zerouali, an official of the Moroccan Interior Ministry, said Europe’s seemingly insatiable demand for cannabis is
still the main obstacle to eradicating it completely, according to a BBC report las year.
A total of 17 African countries reported rising levels of cannabis use in 2005, and only 4 countries saw a decline; a further 4 countries described the cannabis situation as stable. As compared to a year earlier, the upward trend appears to have lost at least some of its momentum. For 2004, 20 countries saw cannabis use rising, only 3 reported a decline and 4 reported stabilization, according to the World Drug Report 2007 by UNODC.
