lebanese border is home to mechanic mohamed al buckeye he returned to just a month ago he was forced to leave in two thousand and thirteen when fighting broke out between the syrian army and the opposition. but when we left because of the armed groups my wife my children and i were able to escape when i opened a garridge in lebanon at the foot of the floor. at least buckeye and his son malik found work in lebanon on many syrians don t the country is small and expensive syrians there also usually earn significantly less than the locals. it was tough we couldn t really live in lebanon comfortably we decided to come back but. the high cost of living and the low wages weren t the only reasons they left eleven on after five long years. most people respected us but some kept telling us
you re taking away our work the feel of. his former house was badly damaged during the war now his family has to live in rented accommodation but they aren t complaining so it s a wonderful feeling i can t explain it now we are here again in my village after all that s happened this is still my home if you travel or are forced to flee as a refugee there s only one place you can call home. but just eleven years of age their daughter has lived almost half her life in lebannon now she s starting a new adventure joining classes at the local school. on the first day of school i was really happy that i knew friends at school different friends than those i had in lebanon. from our harvard it s not an easy restart he doesn t know who damaged his former house whether syrian government forces or rebel
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with no trouble and now this talk about legalizing cannabis cultivation tell us how that came about. it s not a new idea in lebanon i mean i ve talked to some farmers i ve talked to various farmers and some of them have been saying so that they ve been talking to their local officials about this for over twenty years and to be around the same time that lebanon actually criminalized the growing of cannabis but it became recent now because at the beginning of the year the lebanese government commissioned mckinsey the global consulting company to come up with proposals to boost lebanon s cash strapped economy and this was one of the proposals that they came up with how far could it go in fact to improve the economic situation had they given some sort of estimate or indication i don t think the kids even estimate but the caretaker economy minister of lebanon last gave an estimated one of our own one billion u.s. dollars that could come into the economy if this were to be legalized of cours
he says cultivating cannabis isn t a choice for many of the farmers here they go into this line of business because the state hasn t provided them with jobs. for the young man like me or any older farmer who wants to feed his children or any young man who has dreams he wants to build a house get married have start a family or there s nothing else to do but plan cannabis and live off it for. his hometown of the moon a is located in the impoverished ball beckham of the strict. for decades cannabis has been grown here illegally. lebanon is one of the world s top five producers of cannabis resin otherwise known as hashish. alley his arm to myself the cannabis trade has been too since the syrian war broke out in two thousand and eleven as lebanese authorities have shifted their attention