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Laura Ling goes to Morocco--the largest exporter of cannabis in the world.
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10 responses // Cannabis Country

  • I am interested in seeing more
    thysa001
  • I am interested in seeing more
    thysa001
  • WHY THE HELL WONT YOU LET US WATCH THIS POD, ITS NEVER ON YOUR CHANNEL AND YOU WONT LET US ACCESS IT ON LINE, STOP BEING SO CONTROLING AND LET US SEE THE WORLD.
    I MEAN YOU KEEP TELLING US ITS OUR CHANNEL WITH OUR NEWS, SO SHARE. CHEERS. NBW
    n1cky
  • i am also interested in seeing more
    n1cky
  • Didn?t like this pod at all...

    Anyone who has ever been in morocco for a wile will know that what this Pod point of view is totally wrong.

    Moroccan people smoke hashish like English people drink Tea, is part of there culture.

    We are always comparing our world with does of ?undeveloped Countries? and saying how bad they are?.

    Before doing these types of Pods, you should try to understand their cultures and stay there for a wile with an open mind, don?t just compare them to your world.
    Saying that they make 2 dollars a day?In morocco 2 dollars is enough for 4 or 5 days, especially for local people.

    This Pod was trying to show a bad country full of drug dealing people, but it is the opposite, people there will give you everything and ask nothing in return.

    I hope you will do other Pod showing the true side of an amazing country.
    quicova
  • In the summer of 2002, Laura said something like, I wonder what's in the Golden Triangle? So we contacted the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, UNODC, which coincidentally had just decided to bring some journalists--who turned out to be us--into Special Region #2, controlled by the United Wa State Army, which the U.S. State Department at the time called the largest armed narco-trafficking group in the world. We went in January of 2003. Though a bunch of thugs, the leaders of the Wa--a Chinese ethnic minority--liked Laura. We got great footage of the UNODC's efforts to convince the Wa stop producing opium, plus even wackier footage of Laura singing karoake and going bowling with the Wa leaders. We made a half-hour PBS documentary, Journey to the Golden Triangle, which the UNODC guys liked a lot... and so, getting to Cannabis Country, when Xavier Boauen, the head field guy for the UNODC in Myanmar, was transferred to Morocco, he invited us to watch him conducting a survey of cannabis cultivation in the Rif Mountains in July of 2004... And so that's another example of how access breeds access. As for UNODC efforts to curb the cultivation of illegal drugs, in both cases, they got a boost from market forces. After the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, opium cultivation has surged--they produce well over 100% of the world's needs--and as a result, kind of annihilated the opium business in the Golden Triangle in the way that imported clothes destroyed the U.S. textile industry. In Morocco, cannabis cultivation got so out of control that the Moroccans glutted the European hashish market, drove down prices, and were obliged to cultivate less the next year.
    MitchKoss
  • http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6426799.stm
    Morocco's war on cannabis
    Morocco's war on cannabis
    excerpt from the article:

    The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says 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.
    Adam_Yamaguchi
  • This pod is really cool but i want to show all my friends this and it''s not on the website. It would be really cool if u could put this on ur website. Thanks.
    bshaw8718
  • First off, to Quicova, I didn't think this pod was trying to portray Morrocans as a "bad, drug-dealing" people at all. In fact, I'm not quite sure how you managed to get that impression from this pod, but I digress.

    I love that this concentrated on the ground-level of the drug trade, the farmers. Then at the end, it really hits home when you list the value of the crop -- and then the percent that goes to the poor families growing it.

    Makes you wonder, if for no other reason than economic, the effect that legalizing/regulating the drug trade would have.
    AmandaBecker
  • I found it interesting the final stats in the pod said only 2% of profits make it into the pockets of the small farmer. The interesting part is the model is the same for the legal stimulant caffeine, derived from the coffee plant.

    Viva nescafe... drink fair-trade? I'm still sceptic.
    LucienRafagas

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