Cannabis culture

On the instructions of his Albanian stepfather and his Greek mother, a 16-year-old boy was going to water the hashish plantation they were cultivating in a rural area of the Municipality of Mylopotamos, who was arrested in the act by officers of the Rethymnon Narcotics Squad.

NEW YORK - Those familiar with New York City know it's a place where you will occasionally be confronted with the smell of marijuana. But when some of the world's most elite tennis players caught a whiff of weed during opening day of the US Open in Queens, an investigation was launched to find the possible source.

“He has a nose for marijuana”

The photos posted on social media sites show hashish plates, stacked on top of each other, and a portrait of Putin in a suit and black tie

A visitor reacts while being photographed smelling medical cannabis flowers during Cannabisexpo 2020 exhibition of medical cannabis in Athens, Sunday. Greece was among the first countries to allow medical cannabis cultivation in Europe in 2017. [EPA]

Turkish police on Dec. 24 seized kilograms (nearly 500 pounds) of marijuana from a truck in the country's southeast, according to a security source.

The drugs were seized in Gaziantep after anti-drug teams stopped the vehicle and arrested the driver in a sniffer dog-aided operation, said the source, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.

A police officer in Thessaloniki was relieved of duty on Thursday pending an investigation into his alleged violation of drug laws and a breach of duty.

Bob Marley, who died in 1981 after a battle with cancer, would have turned 70 today, but his music is still with us and his legend looms larger than ever.

Decades after his death, Marley is the most followed deceased entertainer, with more than 70 million Facebook followers and an ever-lengthening list of accomplishments attributable to his music.