Linda Rama: Between Family, Work and Albania’s Future 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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