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Chefchaouen treats Chefchaouen as a cannabis growing area: Chefchaouen Province in the western Rif, apart from the coastal country of the Ghomara, which has its own page at Ghomara. It covers the spread of the crop into the province, the areas measured by the national surveys, the Bab Taza field trials and the legal status. The province as an administrative unit is treated at Chefchaouen Province; a page for the town would take the title Chefchaouen (city).
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Why Chefchaouen is a growing area
- The joint surveys of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Moroccan authorities report cannabis by province. In 2004 Chefchaouen Province held 75,195 ha, 62 per cent of the national total; in 2005, 40,529 ha, 56 per cent.
- El Bakali and colleagues grew the local kif plant and four imported cultivars at Bab Taza from 2014 to 2016. Amazirh and colleagues mapped the spread of cannabis-dominated farmland in Bab Berred commune to 2025.
- Since 2022 the province has been one of the three in which cannabis may be licensed (Decree 2-22-159, art. 1).
- The status is Active: the 2004 and 2005 surveys, the 2014–2016 trials and the 2025 land-cover map all describe cultivation since 2000.
- Seed lots and a herbarium sheet with coordinates in the province, outside the Ghomara communes, are filed here: the genebank lots collected in 2023, a general-population lot named for Chefchaouen, and the 2008 Bab Taza sheet, whose catalogue records the plant as cultivated (cultivo).
Extent and border
- The map border is approximate. It is drawn on Chefchaouen Province as it is today, less the four administrative units that cover the Ghomara country (the Cercles of Jebha and Assifane and the Caïdats of Bou Ahmed and Talambote; see Talk:Ghomara). It covers about 2,340 km². The whole province covers about 3,880 km².
- The survey figures quoted in the article are for the whole province as the surveys drew it, including the Ghomara communes.
- Two genebank lots of 2023 recorded in Ouazzane Province fall outside the border and are not filed here.
- The area figure in the infobox is rounded from the border.
Sources
- Survey figures. The 2004 survey (published May 2005) and the 2005 survey (published January 2007) are read in full. The 2004 report warns that its area figures were contested by Moroccan experts and retained provisionally. The 2005 report's opening summary gives the 2004 Chefchaouen figure as 79,195 ha; its own tables, and the 2004 report, give 75,195 ha, which the article uses. Eradication figures are the Moroccan government's, which the surveys did not verify.
- Historic zone. The 2004 survey centres on the province a zone where cannabis arrived from the early 1980s. Chouvy and Afsahi (2014) place part of the historic zone in the province. The article gives both.
- Bab Berred. Amazirh and colleagues (2026) use farmland as a stand-in for cannabis, which they describe as the near-exclusive crop of the commune. The article says so.
- Bab Taza trials. El Bakali and colleagues call the local plant Beldiya; the article gives the name as theirs.
Sources not used
- The 2003 survey report is no longer served at its old address. Its 2003 figure for the province comes from the tables of the 2004 report.
- Amazirh and colleagues cite the 2003 survey as ranking Bab Berred the commune with the largest area under cannabis, over 2,500 ha. The 2003 report was not read, so the figure is not used.