KIF

Bob J. Zehmer

Description

Routes, bribery, fight against crime, mafia-style organizations, connections with hard drugs, money laundering
and even more disquieting world scenarios

A trip among the illicit traffics and the
main characters in an ongoing foul play.

You will unlikely find such impressive information about hashish, drug-trafficking, economic backstage and interviews with traffickers and police officers, all rallied in only one book so clearly expressed and direct.

Sujets

• Witnesses
• Droit et juridique
• Law

Informations

• Publié par: eBookIt.com
• Date de parution: 21 février 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781456600204
• Langue: English

Extrait

Bob J. Zehmer
 
 
Kif
 
Hashish from Morocco
 
 
 
 
2010
 
© Bob J. Zehmer all rights reserved, 2010, Washington Copyright Office
 
 
Published for the Internet by eBookIt.com
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ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-0010-5
 
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.
 
The author may be reached at:
www.bobjzehmer.joyspoon.com
 
 
The photo on the cover and many others in this book appear courtesy of
Dr Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy
http://www.geopium.org
 
Geopium.org was created and is published by Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy geographer and research fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research ( C.N.R.S. , Prodig unit).
 

 
Routes, bribery, fight against crime, mafia-style organizations, conections with hard drugs, money laundering and even more disquieting world scenarios
 
A trip among the illicit traffics and the main characters in an ongoing foul play
 
 

A view of the Rif mountains around Ashawen
 
2010
 

 
Contents
 
Preface
What went before
Hashish
Geography of trafficking and a tip of history
Sitting on the edge of the volcano
Criminal organizations
Directly from the mouth of the protagonists
Money laundering
Final remarks
 
 
 
Acknowledgements
Let me take the pleasure to acknowledge all the people who made this book possible. They are so many, and I wouldn’t want to forget anybody.
My wife and daughters for their patience in letting me take my time to carry on my research being often unavailable.
Siddik, and all his relatives, for being so kind and largely generous with support and information.
Terrence for his precious suggestions and economic hints; without his valuable help this book would still be floating on air.
Then again, all the police officers with whom I dialogued, their colleagues and all those from Justice Depts. who do their best for a more just world day after day.
Special thanks to Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy geographer from the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris, for his courtesy to share his marvelous photos, and significant warnings I treasured.
I do want to address my gratitude also to Jefferson who helped me get ahead when I felt discouraged, and John for his interest on my work, his indications were of extreme worth.
My heartfelt appreciation to Grace Huber for helping bowdlerize, her professionalism has been a great spur to me.
Still there are more people who have a say and they are: Dominique, Teresa, Helen, Freddy, Manuel, Burt, Juan, Xavier, Liefer, Ace and Bodes, a sincere word of credit to you all.
Last yet not least, many thanks to Bo Bennett and all the staff from eBookIt.com for getting this e-book published. I have no qualms of suggesting their highly qualified service.
All those above mentioned are the ones who gave me all the backing I needed to accomplish my work, I would not have gone that far without them.
 
I even want to express thanks to those who revealed a lot of information through interviews, from which I could get impressive, and somewhat startling, stuff for this book.
 
I beg your pardon for approximations and errors that may appear in this work; I take it upon myself.
In addition, I had to take into due account information of practices, feats, traditions and activities quite so distant from my usual knowledge and practicing.
Therefore, I will enjoy any of your suggestion and criticism at bobjzehmer.joyspoon.com or bobjzehmer.posterous.com
 
Under no circumstances, this book may be meant as an invitation to breaking the law and/or using drugs.
The law is the pact we have accepted for living in harmony each other, and by respecting human rights we may as well be said good citizens everywhere.
Only what is sanctioned by law may amend the law; in other words, laws can be changed as a result of democratic procedures as laid down by the law itself.
 
To conclude, my warmest thanks to all of you who spend your time on this book; I hope you’d find it worth reading.
 
“ The cause of all wars, riots and injustices is the existence of property ”
(St. Augustine)
 
For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him.
(Karl Marx)
 
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
(Oscar Wilde)
 
What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?
(Immanuel Kant)
 
 
Dedicated to:
 
All my family and friends
 
those who sacrificed their lives for fighting against organized crime
 
those who fight day by day against all arrogance and abuse
 
anybody may love and try for truth
 
 
Preface
This is a nonfiction book on a scabrous subject, the drug trafficking, with particular reference to hashish smuggled from Morocco.
This work has been realized thanks to a personal inquiry lasted several years, in which I’ve had the good luck to interview drug smugglers and various front-line policemen from different European Countries.
I take leave to spell out that I am neither a physician nor a pharmacologist, so I won’t dwell upon psychotropic and medical effects of cannabis.
I am far more concerned about the critical outbreak with which a criminal action like drug trafficking socks our societies. That’s why I have been canvassing this phenomenon focusing my attention on criminal associations, police forces’ efforts to fight against it, human dramas, and economic damages that even a so-called soft drug may cause.
Phytocannabinoids, that’s to say the active principles contained in the plant of Cannabis sativa L. , are considered soft drugs as against other substances as cocaine, heroin, crack, ecstasy and so on.
All in all, the division illustrated on the tables A, B, C or I and II, in relation to the distinct legislations, is based more on political stance than on scientific investigations.
As always, opinions vary on this point; no need to say that many scientists don’t get on at all well together upon this topic. Some studies argue that it is possible to get hashish and marijuana both from Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica , and likewise from hybrid varieties. However, these are particularly divisive themes on the scientific side, let alone the political viewpoint.
Not for nothing, these controversial issues have been the source of much confusion.
In the UK, for instance, Cannabis was downgraded from B to C in the psychotropic substances classification; yet later, in 2009, it was brought back to B after social alarm caused by the skunk , a special crossbred cannabis – indica and sativa – that popped up around in the 1980s.
Nonetheless, Professor Leslie Iversen, pharmacologist from Oxford University, asserts that the so-called skunk doesn’t contain a high percentage of THC – the compound of cannabis. In fact, he states that it does not exceed 10% – 12%; like many other independent studies prove it.
 
Other Countries, like Italy since 2006, for example, make no difference between hard and soft drugs.
The notion that Marijuana wasn’t a soft drug, started off during the late 1980s and in the 1990s, because many sustained that the compound had stepped from 4% up to 16% of THC, which has deserved this hypothesis the name of Theory of 16%.
Yet there are many scholars and specialists in the field, who affirm that we should query whether the repressive stance on drugs must be held like the right thing.
Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (1930 – 2004) in his work Rhétorique de la drogue published in 1989, argued that the notion of ‘drug’ is just founded on moral and political viewpoints, and it is completely devoid of any scientific approach.
At the same time, so as to come clean, I won’t have you searching between the lines, and so I come out straight; I agree with Derrida’s perspective. I am a convinced supporter of legalization, and I think drug trafficking is a fake quandary! I am a hard fighter against all criminal associations too – did it need to be spelled out? – and that’s why I think that organized crime would suffer a deadly stroke if the prohibition era should terminate!
To wage war to narcos it’s a good thing, a world rid of criminals it’s just what all truthful people wish, but a question rises, “What about narco-mafias if drug trafficking were not a business any longer?”
Therefore, someone could say, “Let’s decriminalize murder, and we’re going to have fewer criminals. If murderers are not outlaws, we mustn’t keep prosecuting them on!”
By Jove, don’t overdo! In due course, we will deal with this stance any better, but let me tell right now that there is a substantial difference. When someone kills a person commits an irreparable evil by depriving the victim of his/her right to live; conversely, when someone rushes to a chemist’s shop, for example, to buy narcotics – in case drugs were legalized – they are only taking up their right to be free.
Now, one more time that guy would say that ingesting drugs is not freedom at all since they cause addiction and death!
Yes, I’d reply! I don’t think I would be more free if I could consume cocaine any given day; nevertheless, are we sure that anybody would make it?
Should people be brought up to respect their lives, as well as the others’, should our civilization value the environment as a resource instead of making a garbage can out of it, I wouldn’t fear six billion people in the world wake up at morning goaded by the need of drug.
Around 250 million people in the world use drugs, most of them – between 143 and 190 million – fall back on cannabis; nonetheless, I am convinced that legalizing drugs would not mean increasing the number of users.
Tobacco and alcohol are officially permitted, yet most people don’t smoke or exceed with alcohol.
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