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Dir treats Upper, Central and Lower Dir districts, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, as a historical cannabis growing area, on the 1985 account that names the mountains and valleys of Dir for cannabis cultivation. The districts and the town of Dir are separate subjects.
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Why Dir is a growing area
- Stamler, Fahlman and Vigeant (1985) name the northern mountains and valleys of Dir among the places in Pakistan where cannabis was mainly cultivated.
Growing status
- The status is Historical: the one source on growing in Dir dates from 1985, and no source read says anything of growing there since, either way.
- No first or last year is entered. The account describes one moment and gives no year for when growing began or ended.
- Muntaha and colleagues (Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry 7, special issue 1, 2018, pp. 913–917) surveyed weeds in wheat fields in Lower Dir in 2016 and found Cannabis sativa among the dominant weeds. Only the abstract could be read. A weed of wheat fields is not a crop, so the survey is not used for the status and is not cited on the page.
Extent and border
- The map border is approximate. It is drawn on Upper Dir District, Central Dir District and Lower Dir District as mapped in OpenStreetMap (relations 13927198, 16448961 and 13927920), merged into one shape. The 1985 account speaks of Dir as a whole.
- The map line keeps the land of the three districts below 4,000 m (SRTM elevation) that ESA WorldCover 2021 does not map as bare or sparse vegetation, permanent snow and ice, or open water; pockets inside the line are filled, pieces less than about 5 km apart are joined and the edge is smoothed. About 5,000 km² of the 5,310 km² of the three districts remain, and the infobox area is rounded from that line.
- The point in the infobox is a point inside the merged border near its centre, not a field.
Sources
- Stamler, Fahlman and Vigeant (1985). Read in the UNODC web edition of the Bulletin on Narcotics and in the scan of the printed issue (p. 44). The three authors were officers of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the passage on Pakistan rests on intelligence reports; it names districts and valleys, not villages.
- Searches of the English, Urdu and Pashto press found no report of cannabis grown or destroyed in Dir.