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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Syrian refugees risk Daesh wrath as they farm cannabis in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley 🌿Syrian refugees risk Daesh wrath as they farm cannabis in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley
In Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Syrian refugees wearing scarves over their faces work in fields of cannabis plants. Migrant workers from neighbouring Syria have done this work for many years, spending a few months a year in the region before returning home. However, since the rise of Islamic State, this has become a task that could put them, and their family back in Syria, at risk of harm including death because working with, getting close to or consuming drugs and alcohol is considered a sin in Islam. "If Islamic State back home knew we work with hashish, they would cut us" with knives, says Aisha, 15.
A woman and a 13-year-old boy sift through the twigs and buds of the recent harvest inside a garage filled with green dust and piles of cannabis.
They are Muslim refugees from Raqqa province – de facto capital in Syria of Islamic State fighters –...
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