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Albania has become the largest producer of outdoor-grown cannabis in Europe. The potent plant has been described as 'green gold' for struggling farmers. In a poor nation, it's a billion-euro industry. Off a dirt road, in a small village north of Tirana, there's a half-built, tumble-down, brick house. It stands alone and looks abandoned. It isn't. The sweet, heady odour that seeps from one of the rooms reveals its current function: cannabis production. Inside, more than half the floor space is covered with buds of the drying drug. He is young - late 20s maybe - dressed in skinny jeans, a tight top and trainers. And he is one of thousands making money from the cannabis boom. In Italy it will fetch about 1, euros. And most of the country's cannabis crop is trafficked out - north through Montenegro, south to Greece, or west across the Adriatic to Italy. There is no significant home market. The 20kg of stinking greenery slowly drying in the sunlight that streams through an open window does not represent this man's entire crop. This man employs 15 people to pick and process, and armed guards to defend his crop. He says he is in charge here, but he probably belongs to a wider network. So if everyone is growing it, and that seems to be common knowledge, why has there been no police raid? Everybody has to pay. If you don't pay they will take you to jail,' he says. There's no money in growing anything else. I know it's not a good thing I'm doing, but there's no other way. Police vaults store thousands of bags of cannabis seized in raids. For decades Albanians lived under a punishing, closed regime. Then, after communism fell, came a period marked by civil unrest and the rapid growth of organised crime. Twenty-five years later, unemployment is still high and corruption rife - conditions that enable the cannabis trade to flourish. The government has had some success in its fight against the illegal industry. It says more than two million cannabis plants have been destroyed this year, and now that the growing season is over, police are concentrating on confiscating the drug as it is prepared for trafficking out of Albania. In a vast warehouse in the town of Rreshen, tucked into the foothills of the mountains north of Tirana, tier after tier of drying cannabis is laid out on mesh shelves. On the concrete floor, there are more waist-high mounds of the drug. Sacks of it lie around, and it spills out of the open back doors of a transit van. In the middle of this sea of weed - his woolly hat pulled low, his glasses on the end of his nose, and a gun at his hip - is the police officer in charge, Agron Cullhaj, who describes it as the largest ever find in this area. In their mission to rid Albania of the cannabis scourge, the government has the support of the Italians. The Guardia di Finanza pays for aerial surveillance to identify plantations, and it is their statistics that Albanian politicians quote. That means we're on the right path,' says Tahiri. In the raid - employing firepower, special forces and armoured vehicles - many tonnes of cannabis were seized and thousands of plants destroyed. But if you compare the Italians' figures for and , they reveal a five-fold increase in the area cultivated with cannabis. Sources within Albania suggest many communities have turned to drug production for the first time this year. Corruption is critical to the success of this illicit business - something the Home Minister recognises. Not all of those officers have been fingered over cannabis, though. Corruption in Albania bleeds into so many cracks of everyday life. He lives on the outskirts of Tirana, in a suburb that rural families migrated to when the communist edifice collapsed in the early s. They came looking for work, but more than two decades later it is still hard to find regular, legal employment. Weed has filled a gap. Fleets of minivans carry workers out to the countryside. In the growing season they labour in the plantations. After the harvest, they prepare and pack the drug ready for its illicit export. Critics say it's these daily workers who are most likely to be caught in police raids, while the big fish escape. And that even if someone connected to organised crime is picked up, there are few prosecutions on serious charges, such as membership of a criminal network. Police take care to remain upwind of the smoke from a cannabis bonfire in Kurvelesh. We go after those who, in our analysis, are 'big fish'. We have nearly 1, ongoing criminal proceedings, and we've made more than arrests, which shows we're going after those who finance, organise and gain profit from this business. There is widespread concern in many quarters in Albania about the wider impact of cannabis production, and how young people - ambitious and impatient for a better life - can be persuaded not to get involved. I think they are victims,' says Catholic priest, Father Gjergj Meta. So the cultivation of cannabis doesn't give us a culture of work. People are desperate. They don't see a future. Father Gjergj penned a letter that was published online, and went viral in Albania. He addressed it to an imaginary youth. The letter ends with an appeal to young people to turn their backs on the cannabis fields. With few alternatives, it is a plea that may well fall on deaf ears. Join the conversation - find us on Facebook , external , Instagram , external , Snapchat , external and Twitter , external. Image source, AFP. By Linda Pressly. Then, he gets defensive. Some of the hauls have been huge. Find out more. Image source, AP. The minister, Saimir Tahiri, says that is not true.

Is Marijuana Legal in Albania?

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Cannabis is legal for medical and industrial purposes in Albania. Drug trafficking first became a major concern in Albania in the s; in that same period cannabis cultivation which had initially been concentrated in the south became more widespread. Albanian cannabis production is sufficient to meet local demand and also export to other areas, though the country continues to import some hashish through Turkey. More recently, although still undoubtedly a net exporter, Albanians have begun importing herbal cannabis as well, with an apparent preference for the hashish varieties of the Maghreb. Total production, meanwhile, in Albania, was estimated by Italian financial police to be around tonnes, worth about 4. In , Albania seized Albania made global headlines and 'placed itself on the cannabis map' in when the Albanian State Police ASP tried to shut down production in Lazarat , one of the heaviest producing towns in the mountainous southern regions that are said to be the 'heartland' of Albanian cannabis production. It was right after the fall of its communist state that the current large production of cannabis began in Albania. In , criminal groups from Greece began to establish cannabis plantations in southern areas near the Greek border, and the local Albanian farmers embraced an opportunity for some level of financial stability in the turbulent economic situation. In the early days of cannabis production in Albania, trafficking was done by Greek youths who carried bags of cannabis over the mountains across the border, in which Albanian law enforcement found it difficult to control the trade. The new industry took hold quickly despite attempts to curtail it, and it has been reported that in gunfights between farmers and police were common. Later on, the trade became linked to the Italian mafia, and cannabis was carried to Italy on speedboats going over the Ionian Sea. Due to its aspirations to join the European Union , Albania is under pressure to present a decisive national anti-drug strategy, and in recent years has escalated police crackdown against the cannabis trade, with mixed results, and coordinating efforts with other national governments such as the Italian government. On 21 July the Albanian Parliament voted to legalize medical cannabis. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Legality of cannabis in Europe Legal for recreational use. Legal for medical use. Trafficking \[ edit \]. Enforcement \[ edit \]. History \[ edit \]. References \[ edit \]. ISBN United Nations Publications. Retrieved 25 June Balkan Insight. Retrieved Associated Press. Retrieved 21 July Portal : Cannabis. Cannabis by country. Legal history Legality by jurisdiction. Legal history Timeline Medical Non-medical Legality by jurisdiction. Legality of cannabis Annual cannabis use by country Adult lifetime cannabis use by country Cannabis political parties Timeline of cannabis law. Hidden categories: All articles with dead external links Articles with dead external links from August Articles with permanently dead external links Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata.

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