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Morocco set to legalise cannabis production for medical use

Morocco plans to allow the farming, export and domestic sale of cannabis for medical and industrial use, the government said on Thursday, a move it hopes will help impoverished farmers in the Rif mountains amid a growing legal global market for the drug. 

The co-ruling party, PJD, which is Morocco’s largest party in parliament, changed its stance on cannabis after the UN drug agency reclassified it as a “less-dangerous drug”.

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