Topic: DRUGS - on October 8, 2014 at 4:53:00 PM CEST
Morocco, top hash provider, mulls legislation to break marijuana taboo and legalize growing
In the rugged Rif mountains, Abdelkhalek Benabdallah strode among towering marijuana plants, checking the buds for the telltale spots of white that indicate they are ready for harvest.
Much of the crop had been picked and left to dry on the roofs of stone-and-wood huts that dot the valley, the heart Morocco’s pot-growing region. Benabdallah says he openly grows the crop, while understanding the risk: “We are regularly subject to blackmail by the gendarmes,” he said as he scythed through stalks and wrapped them into a bundle.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 8, 2014 at 4:52:00 PM CEST
Legal ganja in Jamaica: After 100 years of prohibition, they’re legalizing pot
Jamaica’s justice minister said Tuesday that legislation has been drafted to decriminalize marijuana on the Caribbean island where the drug has been pervasive but prohibited for a century.
Mark Golding told reporters that lawmakers should make possession of 2 ounces or less a petty offense before the end of 2014. He also expects decriminalization for religious purposes to be authorized by then, allowing adherents of the homegrown Rastafarian spiritual movement to ritually smoke marijuana, which they consider a “holy herb,” without fear of arrest.
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Topic: DRUGS - on October 8, 2014 at 4:51:00 PM CEST
5.59 Tons of Hashish Nabbed At Sea
You think those international forces patrolling the coast of Somalia are supposed to be protecting the sea lanes from pirates, right? Well, that's not all they're doing. In the latest operation completed on October 6, an Australian frigate, the HMAS Toowoomba, backed up by a New Zealand search plane trailed a dhow -- a type of sailboat traditionally used by Arab merchants -- from the Arabian Sea to the Horn of Africa.
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