On June 3, Morocco's police seized a whopping 18.243 tonnes of cannabis resin in the coastal area of Sidi Rahal, south of Casablanca.
According to the police report, they arrested five people "red-handed" they unloaded the prohibited drug onto from a truck into three rapid inflatable boats, adding that they have started looking into the arrested people's ties to both domestic and foreign drug trafficking organizations.
Cannabis resin is a concentrated form of cannabis made from the flowers of the cannabis plant. Etrahydrocannabinol, or THC, is one of the main cannabinoids found in it. The majority of the medical and psychoactive effects of marijuana are contained in the THC, which is extracted from flowers and sugar leaves of the plant. It is frequently used in the form of hashish.
Morocco has been fighting drug smuggling more vigorously in recent months. As a result, large seizures have been made, including 10.7 tonnes of cannabis in the Atlantic coast city of Agadir in March and 19.5 tonnes of resinous cannabis concealed inside a truck carrying octopus that was traveling to Spain last June.