Washington – The U.S highlighted on Wednesday Morocco’s significant efforts to combat the production and trafficking of narcotics. “Morocco has made significant efforts to combat the production and trafficking of narcotics,” the U.S Department of State said in the 2012 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR).
“Morocco has made impressive inroads in reducing overall cannabis cultivation,” the annual report says.
“The amount of land devoted to cannabis cultivation has fallen by 65 percent from 2003 to 2010,” adds the report.
The document also pointed to the government’s “multi-faceted strategy that couples law enforcement, crop eradication/replacement, and demand reduction/treatment efforts with economic development measures to erode the cannabis growing culture that has historically existed in northern Morocco”.
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