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Morocco says its illegal cannabis fields have shrunk by 85 percent

The interior ministry's 2025 performance report put illegal cannabis cultivation at 20,627 hectares, down from about 134,000 hectares in 2003. It presented the fall as part of its supply-reduction strategy alongside the legal programme. The area remains far larger than the 3,141 hectares in legal production that year, and the figure is a government estimate rather than an independent survey.

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The interior ministry’s 2025 performance report put illegal cannabis cultivation at 20,627 hectares, down from about 134,000 hectares in 2003. It presented the fall as part of its supply-reduction strategy alongside the legal programme. The area remains far larger than the 3,141 hectares in legal production that year, and the figure is a government estimate rather than an independent survey.^[1]

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Morocco cuts illegal cannabis cultivation by 85 percent, Interior Ministry reports (3 November 2025). Hespress English. 20,627 hectares in 2025 against 134,000 in 2003; 2024 and early-2025 seizure figures.

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