Customs seize record 19 tonnes of hashish in Tangier truck
Moroccan customs officers at Tangier announced a record seizure of 19 tonnes of cannabis stashed in the back of a truck in July 2000. The haul came as Morocco exported an estimated 2,000 tonnes of hashish a year, mostly to Europe.
Moroccan customs officials at Tangier announced a record haul of 19 tonnes of cannabis stashed in the back of a truck, in the middle of the country’s hashish export trade to Europe.[1]The report estimated Morocco’s cannabis crop earned the country over $2 billion a year, with European drug squads struggling to intercept some of the 2,000 tonnes of hashish it exported annually.[1]
The government argued that demand, not supply, was the problem, pointing out that Europe itself was beginning to ease its bans on soft drugs.[1]Official figures admitted the area under cultivation had grown more than fourfold in a decade, reaching an estimated 80,000 hectares behind a cover of maize along the Mediterranean coast.[1]
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Royal Gendarmerie officers in Kalaat Sraghna raided an olive grove bordering Marchouh commune, seizing hashish, cannabis ears and traditional spirit, and arrested one suspect. The gendarmes said investigations were continuing to identify and arrest the others involved.
Royal Gendarmerie officers in Larache province arrested two men caught crushing cannabis at Douar Mahir, in Bni Garfat commune, and seized 2.26 tonnes of kif, of which 1,360 kilograms were stems and 900 kilograms already crushed material. The two were held in police custody under a prosecutor's inquiry, and the seized cannabis was destroyed under a mixed commission.
Royal Gendarmerie officers arrested four men and seized more than two tonnes of kif and smuggled tobacco from three vehicles in the Aoulouz area of Taroudant province, Morocco. The four were held on the public prosecutor's orders for an inquiry into where the shipment came from and where it was going.
Police in Tinghir province stopped a car on the outskirts of Boumalne Dadès on 29 October 2026 and found 28 kilograms of chira, the cannabis resin known as hashish, hidden in its bodywork. Four people, two of them women, were arrested and remanded to Ouarzazate prison, and investigators suspect one woman's husband directed the network from his cell.
