Moroccan gendarmerie forces carried out a major anti-drug operation early Friday, intercepting a large shipment of hashish ...

A horrific murder unfolded in Tamenesourt, near Marrakech, claiming the life of a young man in his twenties. The incident, ...

As part of efforts to operationalise Ghana’s cannabis licensing regime, the management of the Narcotics Control Commission ...

Morocco is one of the world’s top producers of cannabis, much of it making its way — discreetly — to Europe, by land and sea. (Photo by Sebastian Gollnow/picture alliance via Getty Images) ...

Cannabis plants are pictured in a field near the town of Ketama in Morocco's northern Rif region. [Getty Images] Morocco's King Mohammed VI has pardoned more than 4,800 farmers accused of ...

King Mohammed VI has granted royal pardons to 4,831 individuals involved in cannabis-related activities, the Ministry of Justice announced.

In a filthy squat in a beach town in northern Morocco, drug users inject and smoke heroin, a relatively recent scourge plaguing a region long known for cannabis and contraband.

The North African country passed a law in 2021 allowing the cultivation of medical and industrial-use cannabis in areas of Rif, a mountainous region that has long been a major source of illicit ...

In Chefchaouen, Hoceima, and Taounate -- the Rif provinces where non-recreational cannabis cultivation is legal -- the number of farmers went from 430 to 3,000 in a year, according to ANRAC.

Only two years ago, Abdesselam Ichou began growing cannabis legally as part of Morocco's legalisation of the plant for medicinal and industrial uses in an impoverished part of the country.