The Minister of Interior, Saimir Tahiri, appealed citizens to not plant
cannabis, because it is not the right way to fight poverty.
Tahiri said that the police has destroyed 99% of the panted areas that have been identified, and that the battje is still undergoing.
“I understand the push to fight poverty in the remote areas of Albania. I will not call them traffickers, as the opposition does, but this is not the right way to fight poverty”, Tahiri declared.
The Interior Minister admitted that Albania has a problem with cannabis, but the government is doing everything possible to resolve it once and for all.
“I am the first to admit that we have a problem with the cultivation of cannabis, although much smaller than with the past government, as confirmed by the international partners”, he added.
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