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3000 Tonnen pro Jahr, 80 Prozent des europäischen Gesamtbedarfs, ein Geschäft von 20 Milliarden Euro: Marokko ist der größte Haschischexporteur der Welt. Ein Großteil wird im unzugänglichen Rif-Gebiet produziert. Das Königreich hat den Kampf gegen die Drogenbarone längst verloren.

Von der Hafenstadt Larache am Atlantik dauert die Fahrt ins Rif-Gebirge, dem Herzland des Kif, wie Marihuana in Marokko genannt wird, keine Stunde. Von Kilometer zu Kilometer häufen sich die tiefgrünen Pflanzungen der verbotenen Droge zwischen Bohnen- und Maisfeldern. Außer einzelnen, billigen Wellblechhäusern ist von Zivilisation bald keine Spur mehr.

Aus dieser malerischen Berggegend stammt der Großteil des Haschisch, das nach Europa exportiert wird. Rund 3000 Tonnen sind es pro Jahr – 80 Prozent des europäischen Gesamtbedarfs. Marokko ist damit größter Haschischexporteur der Welt. Auf modernen Schnellbooten, unter Fischladungen versteckt, oder mit Kleinflugzeugen wird das Kif zuerst nach Spanien, dann weiter nach Frankreich, Holland oder Deutschland transportiert. Ein Geschäft, dessen Wert auf bis zu 20 Milliarden Euro geschätzt wird. Das Kif ist das „Grüne Öl“ Marokkos.

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of the profits end up only a fraction of the farmers. "Those who make the big money to go, heavy SUV with mirrored discs and do not come often from Morocco," said Mohammed L., who lives with his wife and seven children in one of the shanties. Unlike many other small farmers in the area he has electricity. He proudly shows off his new TV and a satellite dish. However, water is transported by donkeys every day for years from the wells located 20 minutes away.

Just behind the house is the Kif plantation. Some 3,000 square meters, which are ripe for harvest in those days. Chance are already cut Vegetable bundles to dry in the sun, which are later processed to hashish. "Five or six pounds will be at least," said Mohammed smiles and hopeful. Per kilo, he receives between 400 and 500 euros. In Europe, the consumer often pays more than twenty times.

Mohammed and his family could not survive without the little hashish production. The few olive trees, the eggs his chickens and the hives are used for personal use. For his work five, six kilos of hashish Mohammed only has two or three days. The dried marijuana is a wire wrapped in plastic and with two sticks "knocked out". In the pot including the coveted material accumulates.

Mohammed is one of around a million people in Morocco, secure their existence in this way. "100 kilos of marijuana give one to two kilos of hashish," he explains expert in his field. "Over there it is twice the yield," he added resignedly added, pointing to findings at marijuana fields on the other side of the valley. "That's where the soils are better, and there are water," said the father.

Over there, that's the Chefchaouen region and beyond to the Ketama, where Berber tribes grow since the 15th century Kif. The Berbers are an ethnic minority in Morocco with its own language and culture. 1958, two years after Morocco's independence, they rebelled, after which their region was to the death of Hassan II in 1999 completely ignored. Kif to plant, is still a sign of Berber independence. All attempts by the Moroccan government to stop the cultivation of marijuana were unsuccessful. Whether avocados or olive trees as a replacement, hardly any of the farmers was diverted from the lucrative Kif. "The can do whatever they want," said Mohammed L., who is not a Berber, but just a Jibli, a man of the mountains. "They beat off the olive trees to make space for Kif free. The seeds to originate from Pakistan or Indien.“

Mohammed will mit der von der Mafia organisierten industriellen Produktion nichts zu tun haben. Er wäre schon mit etwas größeren Anbauflächen zufrieden. Aber das sei nicht mehr so einfach wie früher. „Sobald die Polizei meine Felder sieht, reißt sie die Pflanzen aus.“ Schmiergelder in der Höhe, die er bezahlen kann, würden nichts ändern. „Man will den Anbau kontrollieren und auf eine bestimmte Region beschränken, wenn man ihn schon nicht ganz ausmerzen kann“, meint Mohammed.
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Zwischen 2003 und 2007 hatte das Uno-Büro für Drogen und Kriminalität einen Rückgang der Marihuanaproduktion in Marokko um 50 Prozent registriert. The Moroccan authorities had taken under pressure from the U.S. and the European Union action on kif cultivation. Peasants were sentenced to prison terms, fields destroyed, conducted Umpflanzungsprogramme. By 2008, they wanted to exterminate the Kif cultivation completely. Of which Morocco is now far away. The production of small farmers like Mohammed could indeed be minimized and sometimes eliminated entirely. Moreover, the spread was prevented in known producing areas.

But in return, put on the new mafia hashish marijuana crops in inaccessible areas, intensified cultivation with fertilizers and new, more powerful seed. Still you can with enough money a unmolested Harvest in July and August purchase. Will remain so as long as one is not appealing to the socially disadvantaged farmers to substitute crops available and no additional schools, water projects and electricity lines. Since you obviously do not

production can banish, pleaded the renowned Moroccan weekly "Tel Quel" as a way for the legalization of Kif and drew a picture of bubbling tax revenue, tourist flows and the decline in corruption. Not to mention that consume the Moroccans. Whether among construction workers, intellectuals, or truck drivers, cannabis is an integral part of the Moroccan daily life. Each will be year, as the newspaper "Tel Quel calculated ", smoked 1.1 billion joint. That's about 60 cigarettes per year for each adult, the 33-million population of the kingdom.