Cannabis in Lebanon

Cannabis in Lebanon is illegal. However, large amounts are grown within the country and personal use, and personal use as long as not in public is not a major issue.^[1]

Prohibition

The production of hashish was prohibited in Lebanon in 1926, during the era of the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon.^[2][3] The cultivation of cannabis itself was forbidden in 1992, under pressure from the United States.^[4]

By 2001, poverty had pressed many farmers to return to cannabis, under the protection of Hezbollah. By 2002, production had reached 37,000 acres, double what it was the year prior.^[5]

References

1. In Lebanon, a comeback for cannabis / The Christian Science Monitor, CSMonitor.com, 16 October 2007, retrieved 2011-02-17
2. Robert Connell Clarke (1998). Hashish!. Red Eye Press. ISBN 978-0-929349-05-3.
3. France. Ministère des affaires étrangères (1925). ... Rapport sur la situation de la Syrie et du Liban ... Imprimerie nationale. p. 73. Par arrêté du Haut-Commissaire en date du 8 octobre 1925, la culture du haschich, qui était particulièrement intense dans la Békaa (Grand Liban), a été interdite à compter du ier janvier 1926.
4. Réalités. Spectacle du monde. May 1996. p. 354. Les Américains ne lâchant pas prise, le gouvernement libanais interdisait officiellement la culture du pavot et du cannabis en 1992.
5. Martin Booth (16 June 2015). Cannabis: A History. St. Martin's Press. pp. 364–. ISBN 978-1-250-08219-0.