‘If IS back home knew we work with hashish, they’d cut us’

Inside a garage in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley filled with green dust and piles of cannabis, stand a woman and a 13-year-old boy, sifting through the twigs and buds of the recent harvest.

‘If IS back home knew we work with hashish, they’d cut us’

Inside a garage in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley filled with green dust and piles of cannabis, stand a woman and a 13-year-old boy, sifting through the twigs and buds of the recent harvest.

They are Muslim refugees from Raqqa province — de facto capital in Syria of Islamic State fighters — and part of an extended family of about 25 that fled in the past few years to live in tents in the relative safety of a Lebanese village.

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