Morocco: The Kings of Rif | ARTE.tv Documentary

Morocco: The Kings of Rif | ARTE.tv Documentary

Morocco has long been one of the world’s largest producers of cannabis resin, but it’s a trade that was illicit and unregulated. For decades, authorities cracked down on the hashish trade, one of the few industries open to the impoverished people of the Rif. But now, restrictions around cannabis have been relaxed for medicinal, cosmetic, and industrial uses – opening the way for a whole new growth industry.

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50 Comments

  1. Shane Halpin on October 10, 2023 at 10:33 pm

    I just hope these pharma companies lookout for the people that grown it for eternity 🙏



  2. hugo on October 10, 2023 at 10:34 pm

    2023 where it’s still legal to drink yourself to death or get drunk and go to soccer games to fight with others, but growing a plant is deeply criminal. our lives and rules are not based on reason but idiots’ attitudes and opinions



  3. ZybeZ on October 10, 2023 at 10:35 pm

    sawdust hashish



  4. Anonymous Pacifist on October 10, 2023 at 10:35 pm

    Legal for government business 🚸



  5. Michael Solomon on October 10, 2023 at 10:37 pm

    Good for export trade as after sales for recreational use, because nobody wants to break the integrity of their own community



  6. Remon Jacoued on October 10, 2023 at 10:37 pm

    🎉vos commentaires en globish ça ne va pas 😠



  7. Sabiha Tanveer on October 10, 2023 at 10:38 pm

    👑is✔



  8. CosmoNoise on October 10, 2023 at 10:38 pm

    Guess what ? Morocco is doing better than Algeria who has oil… We should multiply by 1000 our production inshallah, and if you don’t like it, fuck you ♥



  9. sugipula on October 10, 2023 at 10:38 pm

    Please Pay By CASH Only, use it everywhere, don’t use card or phone payment.



  10. hugo on October 10, 2023 at 10:40 pm

    The only thing destroying small manufacturers are government-approved tax scams like everything else



  11. Hassan Rahouti on October 10, 2023 at 10:41 pm

    Si chacun va fumer du hachich personne ne va travailler



  12. Jamal FadesemAll on October 10, 2023 at 10:42 pm

    We don’t need pharmaceutical companies patenting and selling a plant that grows everywhere freely, why is there a price and UPC code on EVERYTHING. Humanity should not be MAKETABLE. Smdh. 😢



  13. Alexander Kocher on October 10, 2023 at 10:44 pm

    Why Coca and moonplants legal



  14. John Dyson on October 10, 2023 at 10:44 pm

    Some of Fatima’s family need to go out and work to help the poor old lady out!! There’s 12 of them!



  15. Der Gewagte on October 10, 2023 at 10:52 pm

    Marocans are the nicest humans ever but they are really Fake too



  16. Antz Brightwell on October 10, 2023 at 10:52 pm

    Mr.ANtSZxeR



  17. Tidahm on October 10, 2023 at 10:53 pm

    HILARIOUS ! J’hallucine le vieux au début de la vidéo qui justifie l’injustifiable ou l’art de minimiser un pays narcotrafiquants qui engendre la criminalité à tous les niveaux.



  18. Daryl Preston on October 10, 2023 at 10:53 pm

    Legalization in Canada and much of the US has proven a disaster. Small craft growers have been pushed aside by corporations with lots of money. Licensing fees are outrageous, taxes out of this world as well as all the labelling, packaging and distribution costs leaving most to give up their properties to the big money players. I can’t speak to the king and his motives. Our crime minister legalized cannabis for one reason, VOTES. There was little or no infrastructure leaving it instead to individual provinces and territories to follow the federal law, or not. Even at the local town council levels were allowed to say no to dispensaries, growing and other products related to cannabis in their regions. Taxes alone are through the roof making it a money losing venture for the farmer but not the government. The packaging alone produces 70 grams of waste for every gram sold. Who can run a business like this? My heart is with the farmers and families in the Rif and wish them well when the new law comes into effect.



  19. Angelarch on October 10, 2023 at 10:55 pm

    Please free Finland.



  20. Patrick Feeney on October 10, 2023 at 11:00 pm

    God bless them all the farmers



  21. Meditation zoots channel on October 10, 2023 at 11:01 pm

    Thats Awesome these small farmers will be able to support there family’s and live without the stress of getting court and sent to prison, cannabis heals all illnesses and theres a chance for poor people to at least have a chance to make some good money



  22. Keller Memba on October 10, 2023 at 11:02 pm

    thank you for your hash morocco



  23. Adam Kiseloff on October 10, 2023 at 11:04 pm

    The police here in California are just a corrupt. I was walking home when they stopped me and told me to get in the patrol car for absolutely no reason. I said I would not fit so Officer Rojas of the Los Banos Police Department kicking me. I fell to the ground and repeatedly kicked me until I blacked out and woke up in the hospital. I had to escape the hospital with no shoes on. When I went to retrieve my belongings the next day from the hospital, my keys and wallet were missing a long with half of my other property. The cops chased me for the next two days, too, arresting me and beating me for whatever they made up. I spent a year and a half in jail, while my mother died of cancer. My van was stolen by a homeless man who my keys and wallet were given to. The homeless moved into my home, and made it a drug den and trash pit. They stole everything because they had my keys. I’m homeless now with nothing in Merced.



  24. Maurice Calliss on October 10, 2023 at 11:05 pm

    GIVEN THE CHOICE WEED SMOKERS WOULD BUY OF MOUNTAIN FARMERS JUST TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THEM. A FOYNDATION RUN PROPERLY FOR THIS PURPOSE TO SUPPORT AGE OLD VILLAGES AND FARMERS SHOULD BE PUT IN PLACE .FIRST AND FOREMOST NOT GET THEM RICH BUT TO SUPPORT THEIR OWN CYLTURAL NEEDS AND WAYS AND CHERISH THEIR TRADITINS AND WAY OF LIFE .



  25. Ahmed Ali on October 10, 2023 at 11:06 pm

    LEGALIZE IT DONT CRITICISE IT 🍁🍁🍁



  26. Cress Lucid on October 10, 2023 at 11:06 pm

    SO THE HUMBLEJOINT SMOKING DUDES STILL CRIMINATED BUT THE CAPATILISTS ARE NOT



  27. Қайырбек on October 10, 2023 at 11:07 pm

    Қазақша сөйлеші заебалл🇰🇿



  28. Perseus Rex on October 10, 2023 at 11:08 pm

    The #1 enemy of the people no matter what country is, has always been, and will always be, the government!



  29. El Guardian on October 10, 2023 at 11:09 pm

    Dude im not gonna lie, this documentary was really interesting. Caught my attention. Haven’t been interested in something too long 😊



  30. Missie Messoud on October 10, 2023 at 11:11 pm

    The Riff, especially Al Hoceima, is not poor things there cost 10× more than anywhere else & that was 8 years ago this year, 15× plus. Plus your just outside the city show the nice villas that are peoples whole homes as well as the rest of the world ots separate rooms or flats. Moroccans it’s all to themselves.



  31. CQuinn Lady on October 10, 2023 at 11:14 pm

    Incredibly interesting especially once the law has been implimented. As a medicinal user, I wonder if that will allow travellers to enter without repercutions.



  32. Arjen van Doorne on October 10, 2023 at 11:15 pm

    Maroc has a problem with Heaven’s concept of the Dutch coffeeshop using vacuum chemistry for its product and not farming. What is for free should be gratuitous with a promise of no money. By the coffeeshop it was possible to arrange a temporary market for the turbo in an environment of democracy which otherwise didn’t happen from Heaven.
    Maroc is not so democratic caused by their religion but the inheritance of the earth is not to split.



  33. ARTE.tv Documentary on October 10, 2023 at 11:17 pm

    WATCH next: Ecstasy for Europe – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50M35HYrLYQ



  34. peter esk on October 10, 2023 at 11:18 pm

    demons on my sister



  35. John 4:20 on October 10, 2023 at 11:19 pm

    🤙🤙



  36. J Lawlmart on October 10, 2023 at 11:20 pm

    @zaindaily



  37. Daniel L. Levy on October 10, 2023 at 11:23 pm

    Excellent news for us Israelis! Maybe the powerful Moroccan competition will finally end I-MoAg R&D authorities’ "medical" Cannabis monkey business and convince them to resume work on strategic food security and climate change adaptation. Maybe they’ll remember their mission of promoting the country’s rural sector and they’ll be free to stop prostituting the little that’s left to Big Pharma.



  38. Oz Bo on October 10, 2023 at 11:24 pm

    Fair play Morocco. Make sure the locals stand strong and don’t let these big players push you about.



  39. marc carter on October 10, 2023 at 11:24 pm

    I have travelled a lot of the old Spanish areas many many times. The Berbers have always been granted permission to grow for many years. They came to the aid of a past King. That aid was never forgotten.



  40. James George on October 10, 2023 at 11:25 pm

    Greed will come in an fuck it all up



  41. Kojo Mensah on October 10, 2023 at 11:25 pm

    For thousands of years before the Europeans came about canibis has always been there but since the American pharmaceutical companies came and said it is bad every one has been bamboozled by them without doing their own research is not time individual countries do their own research and stop been bamboozled by the American pharmaceutical companies every thing they will tell you what is bad and what is good and no body do their own research



  42. hugo on October 10, 2023 at 11:25 pm

    That’s what happens when idiots decide what you can do. I have adhd personality disorder, osteoarthritis and a herniated disk. I can get free morphine pills and many other pills whose only help is to shorten my life drastically, but to smoke a joint as a help for all my diseases makes me a person who is considered a deeply criminal is fucking ridiculous. and yes i’ve gone several years without smoking to give it an honest chance and the only thing i’ve gotten out of it is that i’m running around in a big fog because i follow the so-called medical treatment that i’m offered and feel worse than if i smoke a single joint before bedtime instead of taking all kinds of state-funded drugs



  43. Jonathan Kingston on October 10, 2023 at 11:26 pm

    Anybody notice something strange in the clouds at the 13 or 14 second mark in the video? I wonder what it could be.



  44. nibelung demons on October 10, 2023 at 11:27 pm

    nürnberg killians



  45. Kirk Slayden on October 10, 2023 at 11:27 pm

    This god-given green plant has many many medicinal uses but most of all CBD oil stop children from having seizures and if you ever seen somebody have a seizure it will break your heart😢 this beautiful green plant could be used all over the world for some so many different things and all the farmers could make money from it



  46. Delmonte Man say yes on October 10, 2023 at 11:27 pm

    I can’t decide whether this guy is the ultimate slimeball or something else.
    Moroccan genetics need to be preserved.
    I think the illegal market is better for producers. Even though the risk



  47. Hassan420 on October 10, 2023 at 11:28 pm

    They don’t talk about a very old deal, the agreement between farmers and the leaders of that time? It’s nice if we could legally export the hash to the the legal countries like Holland or Malta or states like Cali or Colorado… Because the best hash is made in our North for generations and generations, we do not need european noses in our buisness, we just provide it and export it legally, if they tax our stuff, we make will increase production, I know guys who deliver to the Cammora, the Morrocans in Holland and Antwerp, you outsiders don’t know what can happen if they tax the kif, lotta people and organistations to work with… Change the Hash routes to both hash and cocaina routes… Trust me when I say, the only victim is the farmer in this case, the tax is a win for the goverment and for the smugglers😂

    At this time hash is still criminalized in the south of Morocco, it’s tollerated in the north, you spend 48 hours in jail for possesion, you go to prison for 25 grams for up to 5 years, and morrocan prison is no joke if you have no money or a feared reputation and/or family name. Long live the Kings



  48. Julius Fawcett on October 10, 2023 at 11:28 pm

    Moroccan hash changed my life in the early 1990’s. Beautifully stoned. Today Manchester is full of flower.



  49. Joe b Iden on October 10, 2023 at 11:28 pm

    Legalise cannabis in the UK 🇬🇧 and worldwide! Stop messing about gone on to long , made illegal in the West because the USA made more from cotton trade!



  50. Timothy Watt on October 10, 2023 at 11:28 pm

    I just bought Moroccan Kush at the dispo. It’s pretty strong. Almost an opium-like narcotic high. Centuries of cultivation in an ideal climate.