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TO GO WITH AFP STORY SYRIA-CONFLICT-LEBANON-DRUGS-CRIME A Syrian worker dumps chopped cannabis into a container in the village of Yamouneh, in the eastern Lebanese Bekaa Valley, on November 12, 2013. Lebanon's cannabis trade is thriving in shadow of the Syrian war which has paralysed Lebanese authorities and left the nearby border with Syria virtually uncontrolled. In the past, the Lebanese army would descend annually to the Bekaa Valley to destroy some of the illicit crop, but this year the harvest has gone untouched. AFP PHOTO/JOSEPH EID (Photo credit should read JOSEPH EID/AFP via Getty Images)

TO GO WITH AFP STORY SYRIA-CONFLICT-LEBANON-DRUGS-CRIME
A Syrian worker dumps chopped cannabis into a container in the village of Yamouneh, in the eastern Lebanese Bekaa Valley, on November 12, 2013. Lebanon's cannabis trade is thriving in shadow of the Syrian war which has paralysed Lebanese authorities and left the nearby border with Syria virtually uncontrolled.  In the past, the Lebanese army would descend annually to the Bekaa Valley to destroy some of the illicit crop, but this year the harvest has gone untouched. AFP PHOTO/JOSEPH EID        (Photo credit should read JOSEPH EID/AFP via Getty Images)