Prohibition compared with alcohol

The paper by Mikuriya is probably the first that described kif-growing in Morocco. The use of cannabis preparations is not prohibited in Islam, as alcohol is. The government has been forced into an unpopular and ineffective anti-cannabis stand by national and international considerations. Mikuriya closes by comparing customs around the use of hemp in Morocco with those in the United States, and finds many striking parallels as well as differences. 

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