an hour and a half the upshot no cannabis no sign of suspicious activity. but does that really mean that cannabis isn t being grown in albania anymore definitely not as a contact in the mouths. we decide to make the land journey into the same territory which takes several hours and then we proceed by boat to hide our tracks. our contacts want to remain anonymous they face the threat of reprisals from the police from villagers and from the mafia. the journey takes almost a whole day then the boat approaches the shore at dusk next we make our way up a hill and our through scrub underbrush and thorny bushes.
i mean it was an american flag from delaware. a typical scenario because registering a boat in the u.s. state is cheap and easy criminals often fly the stars and stripes this particular group aren t smuggling cannabis however they re people traffickers. and. the albanian police officers have found a secret path that was cut into the dense scrub it leads to a field with freshly watered cannabis plants that were in it but it was people started only for criminal investigation chief josefa sham body and his team it looks like mission accomplished and. the police officers dig
a lot of it because of our investigations over the past few years we know that the likelihood of cannabis being grown is greater in rugged remote to rain. but it. is not. aspiring e.u. member albania is currently doing everything it can to act tough the government in toronto wants to prove that the country is ready to start negotiations on accession we have succeeded through reform very very deeply our police we heard the police that was the oldest the less educated and the worse spades in our region for the long europe and when we go up to our first monday they said that we need. to work to have in eight years the police that will perform in the
and albania a story of bitterly poor farmers the mafia and corruption but above all cannabis is seen as a political issue here. and now business in pretty loosely problem but if the history of cannabis cultivation in albania has political roots it remained a political problem and had political support. the war or social political strategy determined whether it was for its well tolerated the development last year proves once again that cannabis is closely linked to put it if a lot of cannabis was produced in albania last year and that s because the political situation permitted this phenomenon you say you are a new phenomenon of the of.
we have no work nothing and now we don t even have a hospital. asked it honestly you know of course you know. others have switched to growing cannabis. he doesn t have the courage for that he says. i was to live always kept away from that but i think other people who dealing cannabis or even arms make a lot of money there and i don t want anything to do with that i prefer to work as a blacksmith. the people in albania are still suffering from the consequences of decades of dictatorship. for a long time the country was like a prison for its own citizens. a prison ruled by this man and the