2001-08-05 04:00:00 PDT Bekaa Valley, Lebanon-- For seven years, Abu Mohammed tried to support his wife and five children by growing melons. But there was never enough water, and even when weather ...

BEIRUT, May 22 (Reuters) - Lebanon has foiled a plot to smuggle 4 tonnes of hashish from Sidon to the Egyptian port of Alexandria, a presidency statement said on Saturday. Lebanon's leaders have ...

Syrian migrant workers have been going to Lebanon to work in illegal hashish fields for years. Those who leave areas controlled by ISIS are unsure now if they can ever go home.

With the Lebanon-Israel border the scene of heavy fighting, it is questionable just how much Lebanese hash is getting through right now.-- END --Please make a generous donation to support Drug War ...

The farmer plucks a cannabis flower from a long stalk. He presses it against his nose, inhales deeply and begins to extol the therapeutic -- if not necessarily scientific -- properties of his crop.

BEKAA VALLEY, Lebanon, May 20 (Reuters) - Driving around his Bekaa Valley farmland, Ali Nasri Shamas carries a revolver by his side and an automatic rifle in the back of his car, weapons he says ...

Lebanon's parliament is preparing to legalize cannabis cultivation and its production for medicinal use, House Speaker Nabih Berri told US Ambassador to Lebanon Elizabeth Richard on Tuesday ...