Thousands of Rif farmers are leaving the underground thanks to the regulated cultivation of marijuana . While this shift to the formal economy offers unprecedented security, the nascent sector must still coexist with a powerful black market and overcome logistical challenges.
The routine check at the Biriatou toll booth turned into a fiasco for a Moroccan truck driver. Thinking he was crossing the border with an empty trailer, he was betrayed by a suspicious partition concealing a cargo worth more than 4 million euros.
Two figures of major Toulouse organized crime , suspected of running a vast drug trafficking network between Spain and France, were repatriated to the Pink City this Friday. Arrested in Morocco last February, these two men aged 27 and 28 were indicted and placed in pre-trial detention, marking a decisive step in the dismantling of the "Arai Farmers" organization.
A routine traffic control operation turned into a car chase and record seizure this Monday near Bouskoura. Elements of the Royal Gendarmerie intercepted a large shipment of cannabis resin, estimated at around 5 tons, hidden on board a heavy goods vehicle.
A 32-year-old man, presented by the prosecution as the "boss" of a major cannabis import network between Morocco and France, was acquitted this Thursday, November 13, by the Bourg-en-Bresse criminal court. The prosecution, which had requested eight years of actual imprisonment, believed that he was piloting the traffic from the Kingdom.
Morocco has managed to reduce the areas dedicated to illegal cannabis cultivation to 20,627 hectares in 2025, compared to 134,000 in 2003, a decrease of 85%, according to updated data from the Ministry of the Interior.
By the end of August 2025, the Moroccan police forces seized a total of 446 tons of narcotics, including 385 tons of cannabis resin and 61 tons of kif plants, as well as 788 kg of cocaine, 1.04 kg of heroin, and 1,259,662 psychotropic tablets, according to the latest report from the Ministry of the Interior.
The authorities at the Port Est in Reunion Island discovered 50 kilos of cannabis resin carefully hidden in the tires of new vehicles arriving from Morocco.
The Évry criminal court sentenced Amar K., 72 years old, and his accomplice Naour Addine T., 50 years old, to prison for importing cannabis resin from Spain via Morocco.
The Minister of the Interior, Abdelouafi Laftit, revealed that 111 operating licenses had been withdrawn in 2025 for non-compliance with regulations. This measure follows more than 5,430 control operations carried out until August by the National Agency for the Regulation of Cannabis-Related Activities (ANRAC), which aim to ensure compliance with standards at all stages, from cultivation to export.
In Nîmes, a renowned magistrate is expressing his pessimism about the fight against cannabis trafficking from Morocco and transiting through Spain. He advocates for strong measures to overcome this phenomenon.
Prosecuted for his activity on the encrypted Sky ECC messaging service, Redouan, already convicted for drugs (cocaine and cannabis), has just received a new prison sentence.