Taounate province’s governor Salah Dada officially opened the provincial directorate of the national regulatory agency for cannabis-related activities (ANRAC) on Tuesday in the presence of the agency’s general director, Mohammed El Guerrouj.
The regional office of the National Agency for the Regulation of Cannabis-Related Activities was opened during El Guerrouj’s visit to the agricultural farms permitted to cultivate cannabis in the Taounate and Ghafsay districts.
El Guerrouj held a series of meetings with authorized farmers during these field trips, in the presence of local officials, cooperative leaders, and interested investors, to exchange experiences and discuss the upcoming cannabis cultivation season.
El Guerrouj also paid a visit to the research center in Beni Boufrah dedicated to cannabis cultivation that is connected to the National Institute for Agricultural Research, in the presence of the Director General of the National Institute for Agricultural Research and regional officials.
The visit examined the status of this center’s development as well as the area where imported cannabis seeds were being intensified under the supervision of the National Office of Sanitary Safety of Food Products.
Earlier in May, farmers and cooperatives in the provinces of Al Hoceima, Chefchaouen, and Taounate received the first shipment of foreign seeds.
In the same month, Taounate province public officials observed the planting of the first legal cannabis seed in 2023.
The sowing process took place in covered nurseries under the supervision of farmers, engineers, and specialists.
Civil and human rights advocates requested a public discussion on the legalization of recreational cannabis in Morocco in June.
The plea, which has the signatures of numerous stakeholders, calls on political parties, civil society groups, and the media to foster lively public conversation on the use of cannabis for recreational purposes in Morocco.
20,000 hectares of recreational cannabis were grown in Morocco in 2019 compared to 134,000 hectares in 2003, according to UN data.
The expected value of commercial transactions utilizing cannabis resin has decreased from $15 billion in 2003 to $9 billion in 2021.
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