Beldia and Moroccan Hash: What Morocco's Cannabis Law Really Allows

2,622 hectares. That is how much beldia Morocco's licensed farmers harvested in 2025, against only 519 hectares of imported, lab-bred varieties, according to ANRAC figures reported by H24info. Licensed farmers planted mostly the plant their families already knew.

That makes beldia the backbone of the legal industry. It does not make the product people abroad call "Moroccan hash" legal to buy.

What beldia is

Kif smoking in the Rif long predates the country's role as an exporter; Wikipedia's history of cannabis in Morocco notes the plant was banned nationwide in 1956 but that local use continued. Licensed cultivation is now confined to three provinces: Al Hoceima, Chefchaouen and Taounate.

Where legal beldia goes

Into a closed chain, with ANRAC authorizations at each step.

1. Cooperative farmer
   An adult Moroccan resident of one of the three provinces, member of a cooperative, holding an ANRAC cultivation authorization.
2. Cooperative delivery
   Harvest goes to the cooperative, which sells only to authorized processors or exporters.
3. Processing
   Licensed plants turn biomass into extracts, oils and resin. H24info reported five factories with 560 tonnes of combined capacity built in 2025 and 11 under construction.
4. Products or export
   Extracts go into ANRAC-authorized supplements, cosmetics, foods or medicines at home, or to licensed buyers abroad.

Every movement is tracked. ANRAC's specification for traders requires a register of incoming stock by variety and quantity, kept for ten years and shown at every inspection. In 2025 the agency reported 7,526 compliance inspections and 111 revoked authorizations.

Why growers joined the legal scheme

Two things moved farmers: a legal buyer for a crop they already grew, and a clean slate. In August 2024, King Mohammed VI pardoned 4,831 people convicted, prosecuted or wanted over cannabis cultivation, so they could take part in the new strategy for the Rif, according to the International Drug Policy Consortium. A year later ANRAC counted 5,318 farmers with cultivation authorizations.

The pardon covered cultivation cases. It did not change the rules on selling or using cannabis, which still fall under the 1974 dahir.

Beldia against imported varieties

Total licensed production reached 19,576 quintals of dry matter in 2025, up from 18,810 in 2024, H24info reported from ANRAC data. The agency counted 5,318 farmers holding cultivation authorizations.

Is Moroccan hash legal anywhere?

Only as a licensed export to a licensed buyer. Morocco's first legal export, in the second quarter of 2024, was 100 kg of resin with under 1% THC shipped to Switzerland, according to Wikipedia's summary of press reports. ANRAC's director general said in 2026 that Moroccan products had reached more than seven countries, naming France, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Portugal, Australia and South Africa.

If you see "legal Moroccan hash" advertised abroad, the claim depends on the buyer's country, not Morocco's: low-THC resin can only reach a foreign shop through a licensed exporter. For what a visitor can legally do in Morocco, see our guide for tourists. This page is general information, not legal advice.