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EVERY six months, near the start of a new European Union presidency, the Europeans try to discuss their “masterplan for drugs” with Morocco, the world's largest hashish exporter and the supplier of more than 70% of the EU's own intake. To no avail. Morocco's cannabis crop is estimated to earn it over $2 billion a year, the great bulk of the money going to the traffickers—and the officials they bribe. Moreover, it provides an income for one of Morocco's poorest and most unruly regions, the Rif mountains, and sedates its sometimes rebellious 5m Berber tribesmen.