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For a week, seizures and arrests follow one another to try to stem the traffic. But France remains one of the largest consumers of cannabis in Europe. Regular smokers are becoming more numerous, 1.4 million in 2014, a market worth over a billion euros and very difficult to control.
Local production grows
It took a year and a half of investigation, months of spinning and wiretaps to get their hands on the 770 kilos of seized resins near Orleans. To intercept the convoy "go fast" from Spain: a hundred gendarmes and even the GIGN were mobilized. Each year, Morocco produces 47,000 tons. The key is exported to France via Spain. But for 10 years a new phenomenon developed: local production in France of marijuana, the craft level, but also industrial. In 2014, the police seized two times more plants in 2013.
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