The adoption in Morocco of Bill 13.21 on the legalisation of cannabis for therapeutic use has been postponed to a later meeting. This is the second postponement after last week’s one. Will Morocco abandon the legalisation of cannabis under Algerian pressure? At least that is the question that is being asked.
This new postponement comes at a time when anger within the PJD ranks has risen a notch against the approval of the bill just a few months before the legislative elections. The threats made by Adelilah Benkirane to leave the party if the Islamist deputies vote in favour of legalisation, further complicates the task of the Prime Minister, Eddine El Othmani, and reduces his room for manoeuvre.
It should also be noted that Algeria accuses the Moroccan government of « covering its economic deficit due to the health crisis and the second war in Western Sahara, with the legalization of drugs ». It attributes the Moroccan decision to the « economic and social crisis aggravated by the pandemic of the new Coronavirus and the closure of the Algerian-Moroccan borders », in addition to the « war raging » between the Polisario Front and Morocco.
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