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Investigative journalist Artan Hoxha has shown how the massive cultivation of cannabis is turning into a veritable industry and has a profound impact on the informal economy.
Hoxha has provided details on the cannabisization of the country for years now, an initiative not of small-time traffickers but by order from above.
" The one who ran the country set the gears in motion," Hoxha claims. The social consequences have been and continue to be devastating. This phenomenon has criminalized an entire generation of young people, creating structures and nuclei for future criminal groups. In addition to exports, a powerful domestic market has also been created, which now supplies not only domestic users, but also the growing influx of tourists," the journalist says.
Hoxha also addresses the law on the cultivation of medical cannabis. He points out that the areas designated by the government for legal cultivation coincide with historical areas of illegal cultivation, raising serious questions about the true will to combat this phenomenon.
" This year also did not pass without taking lives, so the phenomenon of cannabis cultivation took its next victim, even though we have already passed the law in parliament to legalize medical cannabis, not recreational cannabis, but surprisingly, I have seen the government map, the places where the government has decided to cultivate medical cannabis are the same risk areas where recreational cannabis has been cultivated until now.
It is certainly not by chance and the last thing I will say here is the fact that these licenses for medical cannabis, when they are granted, will not be taken by these small growers. Those who cultivate every year, but will be taken by large business companies, which will still employ, where they will find power. They will take them and then there will be, a very interesting thing, the thing that happened in Macedonia.
"So the permit was given for medical cannabis, but they introduced it with recreational cannabis, why? Because the price on the market is very favorable. We have a domestic market today when the government boasts that we have 14 million tourists who have entered and exited. Most of them for drugs. One of the things they are looking for... One of the tourist attractions. Yes, of course, because we already have this image. In Europe when it was legalized and in Germany, recreational points have opened, imagine now that when they come to Albania they think they will find it in stalls, they go to the market. In fact, it is not like that, we have a different distribution infrastructure," Hoxha said in "Kafe Shqeto".
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