I swear if the government would let me grow just 500 square meters of hashish, I would sell them.” These are difficult days in the Bekaa region of Lebanon, the season when farmers in the once ...

Police seized some 7.3 kg. of Lebanese hashish in Israel's Upper Galilee area, amounting to the sum of NIS 378,000. At this stage, no suspects have been arrested, and the police refrained from ...

For three decades Abu Ali planted potatoes to provide for his family, but Lebanon’s economic crisis has driven up production costs and forced him to swap the crop for cannabis. “It’s not for ...

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