Cannabis laws

A 42-year-old Albanian was arrested on Saturday by authorities in Menidi, northwestern Athens, after police discovered 25 parcels of cannabis weighing over 26 kilos inside his car.

Police also confiscated his car, two mobile phones and 150 euros in cash.

The suspect will face a prosecutor.

Ministers on Thursday decided against supporting a proposed amendment to the law on the prevention of drug abuse, which would have allowed for the medical use of marijuana in certain circumstances.

A 24-year-old foreign national faced a prosecutor in Thessaloniki on Tuesday on charges of drug dealing on the campus of the northern port city’s Aristotle University.

Police arrested the suspect on the university grounds after receiving a tip-off about his alleged illegal activities.

They found six packages containing a total of 796 grams of cannabis on his person.

Zlatibor Loncar, Serbia's Minister of health, has admitted that use of cannabis can produce good results in medicine and has said that the government may legalise its use for medical treatment.

"The Ministry of Health will not object to the introduction into medicine of anything that gives results in treatment, including marijuana," he said.

A 25-year-old police officer has been arrested in northeastern Greece on suspicion of drug dealing.

He was arrested with five other men on Wednesday, when police raided a house in Komotini.

The raid was conducted after police had arrested an Albanian man at the city’s train station a day earlier.

He had several small packets of cannabis and cocaine in his possession.

A 23-year-old woman faced drug trafficking charges on Saturday after a routine drug check on board a passenger ferry returning from the islands to the Port of Piraeus, found her to be in possession 106 grams of cocaine.

The young woman turned the drugs over to port police following an announcement that a canine unit was about to inspect the Blue Star 2 ferry for drugs.

Drug enforcement officers in Kalamata have arrested a 34-year-old man suspected of being behind a plantation with 315 cannabis plants that was raided in early July on the outskirts of the coastal town of Pylos.

German Green Party co-chair and one of the most prominent European politicians of Turkish descent Cem Özdemir was the latest figure to join the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge campaign that has been viral for more than two weeks.

In the video, which he filmed on his roof terrace in his Berlin home, the politician was seen pouring water on his head right next to a cannabis plant.

German Green Party co-chair and one of the most prominent European politicians of Turkish descent Cem Özdemir was the latest figure to join the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge campaign that has been viral for more than two weeks.

In the video, which he filmed on his roof terrace in his Berlin home, the politician was seen pouring water on his head right next to a cannabis plant.

Nearly 300 police officers, including interior ministry special forces units aided by military helicopters, have swept through the mountainous area of Dukagjin in northern Albania, destroying hundreds of cannabis plantations.