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Editorial: The red line: Setting a clear boundary between crime and politics

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Red lines in Albania when it comes to crime and politics have increasingly become blurry in recent years, and it is a subject this newspaper has addressed in length in the past, but when it comes to cannabis cultivation, it bears repeating — unless a thick red line is place and perpetrators who cross it are punished, Albania will continue to face tremendous problems. It is an undeniable fact that cannabis has been grown in Albania during the past four years at an industrial scale. In fact, cannabis has become an important element in the black economy, with thousands of…

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