“The caviar of hashish”: a Belgian discovers cannabis culture in Morocco

Last year, François, a Belgian, traveled to Morocco to immerse himself in the free cultivation of cannabis. The 23-year-old said he was very impressed by these hundreds of hectares of plantations in the Rif, even though the cultivation of this drug is formally prohibited in the kingdom. Testimony.

“It was my personal consumption of cannabis that pushed me to go to Morocco. I wanted to see the day I consumed resin. See and know,” he confides to The Last Houremphasizing that he does not encourage the use of this drug. The Anderlechtois had visited the region of Chefchaouen and Ketama, in the province of Tangier-Tétouan-Al Hoceima, a region which according to him produces “the best of the best”, the “caviar of hashish”: the “frozen”, also called the “filtered” or “static”. François returned edified from this trip to Morocco where he saw “hundreds of hectares” of cannabis plantations in the Rif mountains, some of which are more than 2,000 meters above sea level.