“The Lebanese government will not attempt to eradicate marijuana fields blooming across the country’s Bekaa Valley, Beirut’s Daily Star reported Friday. Sources said it was because of the fragile security situation in the area near the border with Syria and because the government had been unable to live up to pledges to provide financial compensation to farmers whose crops were destroyed last year. They are also up against Bekaa Valley marijuana farmers in no mood to see their livelihood messed with. ‘In the absence of alternatives, we will break the hands and legs of anyone who dares destroy our crops,’ one of the region’s biggest growers said.”
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/aug/02/de_facto_hash_truce_lebanons_bek
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