Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Cannabis plants are pictured in a field near the town of Ketama in Morocco's northern Rif region. [Getty Images ...

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.

RABAT: In the hills of northern Morocco, vast cannabis fields are ready for harvest, but farmers complain that a government plan to market the crop legally is yet to deliver them any benefits. The ...

In a groundbreaking development, Morocco conducted the first official tests to extract CBD (Cannabidiol) oil from Cannabis in a conversion unit in the Bab Berred community—in the province of ...

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