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Karma Koala Podcast 269: Khalid Tinasti & His New Paper “Navigating Cannabis Regulation in Morocco: Historical Context, Socio-Economic Impact, and Policy Gaps” | Cannabis Law Report

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I recently read Khalid’s latest paper

“Navigating Cannabis Regulation in Morocco: Historical Context, Socio-Economic Impact, and Policy Gaps” (see below)

He writes by way of introduction

In August 2021, Morocco adopted Law 13–21, authorizing the medical and industrial uses of cannabis. This new law marks a break from the prohibitionist drug policy and the successive failures of alternative development programs in the country, which have been conducted since independence. While this legalization occurs in Morocco at a time when several countries around the world have legalized cannabis for medical use, twenty years ago, the idea of legalizing cannabis in the country was inconceivable.

The Ministry of Interior, which leads the fight against drugs, drives this legislative change. Since the extent of cultivated areas and the scale of hashish production were revealed in official reports by the Moroccan Agency for the Development of the North and UNODC in the mid- 2000s, the stated aim of the last twenty years was to eradicate cannabis production to reduce the figures of cultivated areas and production volume.

This article explores the objectives of the recent legalization of medical and industrial cannabis use by analyzing three different categories of affected populations: local consumers, producers, and exporters. While the law targets the socio-economic needs of small farmers and caters to private industrial actors in the cannabis sector, local consumers and patients are overlooked in the legalization process. Therefore, this article

We speak about Morocco’s historical background with regard to cannabis production and what has changed over the last 10-15 years.

Khalid gives us a quick history of what “legalization” and “regulation” means.

What the current issues are and what the country is doing now to create an environmet that works for Moroccan growers and building a local sector.

Khalid Tinasti is a Visiting Lecturer at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and a Visiting Fellow at the International Center on Drug Policy Studies at the University of Shanghai (2020-22). Between 2013 and 2021, he was Director, Executive Secretary and Policy Analyst of the Global Commission on Drug Policy. He also worked as an independent consultant for UNAIDS, WHO, the Graduate Institute and others.

Prior to that, Khalid worked as a Press and Communications Officer in the office of the Minister of Urban Cohesion in France (2010-12), and as an Executive Officer in Gabon (2009-10). Khalid holds a PhD in political science from the Institut Catholique de Paris, was a Visiting teaching and research Fellow at the Global Studies Institute of the University of Geneva (2018-2021), and held other research fellowships at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (2015-16) and at Swansea University (2016).

He is the author of scientific papers and policy research reports with a focus on public policies, democracy and the role of elections, and international drug control mechanisms.

Publications

https://www.linkedin.com/in/khalid-tinasti-5b43516b/

The Paper

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