Items tagged with lebanon and alternative development
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| A Sustainable Future for Cannabis Farmers [16.04.2021] | Learn how lessening the barriers for small farmers while raising them for large companies can help to steer legal cannabis markets in a more sustaina ... |
| ‘If there were no hashish here, you wouldn’t see a single house’ [19.10.2020] | A village in Lebanon, where cannabis grows everywhere, has long counted on hashish for income. But the country’s economic crisis has farmers reconsid ... |
| Turning weed to wine, helping Bekaa farmers go straight [19.11.2016] | Hashish cultivation is widespread in the Bekaa Valley with many relying on the illegal crop for their livelihoods. In an attempt to curb the illicit ... |
| Illicit cannabis farming thrives in Lebanon [26.10.2016] | "When I was young I wasn't for it or against it. All I used to think about was going to school, graduating and getting a job. But there is poverty in ... |
| Cannabis farmers support calls to legalize lucrative crop [23.12.2014] | With the war in Syria stifling the economy and bringing in a flood of refugees in the Bekaa Valley, as well as the closure of smuggling roads and per ... |
| Lebanon agriculture minister urges cannabis cultivation for export [18.12.2014] | Agriculture Minister Akram Chehayeb called for the legalization of cannabis farming in Lebanon to benefit from the revenue of its export. “We are con ... |
| Jumblatt renews calls to legalize marijuana [13.12.2014] | Walid Jumblatt has renewed calls to legalize the cultivation and sale of marijuana. The head of the Progressive Socialist Party wrote that the time h ... |
| Bekaa farmers push against eradicating marijuana growth in Lebanon [02.06.2014] | The growth of cannabis is gradually increasing in the fields in the Bekaa valley. This is mainly due to policies adopted by successive governments th ... |
| Cannabis legalization: the seed of a good idea or a pipedream? [29.05.2014] | According to Jalal Mahfouz, head of the Planning and Development Center in Hermel (Lebanon), any move to legalize the illegal industry, which is beli ... |
| Lebanon: Greener grass [01.10.2013] | Cannabis cultivation in Lebanon, which dates back centuries, became organised during French rule in the early 20th century, but it was in the lawless ... |
| Lebanese government gives "blessed" hashish a break [13.09.2013] | The minister of interior Marwan Charbel promised to find solutions for cannabis farmers in Lebanon, including finding alternative crops. Talk about a ... |
| Cannabis fields in Bekaa destroyed for second day [23.07.2012] | Authorities continued efforts to eradicate cannabis fields in the Bekaa, east Lebanon, as normal activity in the region remained subdued due to repor ... |
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