Some 2,940 hectares of de cannabis, out of a total of 3,143 hectares, were destroyed in 2005 in the north-center region of Fès by the Regional Command of the "Gendarmerie royale."
The gendarmerie January-March magazine ran a study on the efforts of the rural police in the fight of drug trafficking, goods smuggling and contraband and the banned growing of cannabis.
The study shows the campaign to destroy cannabis farming and arrest the culprit farmers has helped cut down the output of cannabis through the destruction of 6,016 ha in 2000 through 2004.
Law enforcement authorities in the Fès region also dismantled a narcotics trafficking network and seized close to 03 tons of hashish. The Gendarmerie Command prosecuted over 1,000 drug trafficking cases and arrested 914 people in this respect.
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