A cat walks past cannabis drying on a rooftop of a house the village of Yammouneh, located in the Bekaa Valley northeast of Beirut, on December 9, 2016.
Large scale cannabis cultivation began in the 1920s to replace Lebanons failing silk industry and soon flourished into one of its most valuable exports. / AFP / PATRICK BAZ        (Photo credit should read PATRICK BAZ/AFP/Getty Images)