{"id":6038,"date":"2021-04-04T13:10:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T13:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/big-business-vs-drug-dealers-the-battle-over-lebanons-weed-industry\/"},"modified":"2021-04-04T13:10:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T13:10:11","slug":"big-business-vs-drug-dealers-the-battle-over-lebanons-weed-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/big-business-vs-drug-dealers-the-battle-over-lebanons-weed-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Business vs Drug Dealers: The Battle Over Lebanon\u2019s Weed Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z76dsXg-fPw?modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Lebanon, a country that has been illegally exporting cannabis for decades, has become the first Arab country to legalize the plant for medicinal export. <\/p>\n<p>Despite a collapsing economy, COVID-19 and an explosion that devastated Beirut in 2020, investors are flocking to Lebanon to capitalize upon the new laws. <\/p>\n<p>VICE\u2019s Rony Karkar explores the nuanced relationships between investors and drug lords in an unprecedented time for the country. <\/p>\n<p>Watch more stuff like this:<\/p>\n<p>Will Lebanon Be the First to Legalize Cannabis in the Arab World?<\/p>\n<p>Inside Lebanon\u2019s Illegal Weed Business<\/p>\n<p>The Dangerous Rise of Contaminated Weed<\/p>\n<p>Click here to subscribe to VICE: <\/p>\n<p>About VICE:<br \/>\nThe Definitive Guide To Enlightening Information. From every corner of the planet, our immersive, caustic, ground-breaking and often bizarre stories have changed the way people think about culture, crime, art, parties, fashion, protest, the internet and other subjects that don&#8217;t even have names yet. Browse the growing library and discover corners of the world you never knew existed. Welcome to VICE.<\/p>\n<p>Connect with VICE:<br \/>\nCheck out our full video catalog:<br \/>\nVideos, daily editorial and more:<br \/>\nMore videos from the VICE network:<br \/>\nClick here to get the best of VICE daily:<br \/>\nLike VICE on Facebook:<br \/>\nFollow VICE on Twitter:<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: <\/p>\n<p>The VICE YouTube Network:<br \/>\nVICE:<br \/>\nMUNCHIES:<br \/>\nVICE News:<br \/>\nVICELAND:<br \/>\nBroadly:<br \/>\nNoisey:<br \/>\nMotherboard:<br \/>\nVICE Sports:<br \/>\ni-D:<br \/>\nWaypoint: <\/p>\n<p>Lebanon\u2019s Green Gold Rush<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z76dsXg-fPw\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon, a country that has been illegally exporting cannabis for decades, has become the first Arab country to legalize the plant for medicinal export. Despite a collapsing economy, COVID-19 and an explosion that devastated Beirut in 2020, investors are flocking to Lebanon to capitalize upon the new laws. VICE\u2019s Rony Karkar explores the nuanced relationships [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[81],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/6039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housematesnaija.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}