Cannabis smoking

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.

Police arrested two men believed to be involved in drug trafficking on the island of Mykonos, authorities said on Thursday.

After receiving a tip, officers of the Coast Guard's Narcotics Enforcement Department found on a passenger ferry anchored at the port of Mykonos an unaccompanied suitcase containing a glass box with raw cannabis weighing 32.6 grams.

Several children hospitalized after consuming cannabis-laced biscuits have stabilized, with their conditions showing improvement, and doctors expect them to recover soon, BNT reports.

A recent UN report on the health behaviors of school-age children has unveiled concerning trends regarding alcohol and cigarette consumption among Bulgarian students, sparking widespread concern.

A 16-year-old girl remains in critical condition after she was hospitalized last week at the General Hospital of Athens Korgialeneio - Benakeio Hellenic Red Cross from drug use. On Tuesday morning, six people relating to the incident were arrested for drug trafficking.

Police in Kilkis, northern Greece, seized over 43 kilograms of cannabis that was being smuggled into the country from the Balkans by car, according to an announcement on Thursday.

The car's driver was arrested following a chase, though no details have been released regarding his identity.

Over three-quarters (76%) of Greek drivers talk on the phone and 84% of them use their smartphone for other purposes like watching videos while driving, according to an Ipsos survey for the Vinci Autoroutes Foundation, released last month.

Spearheaded by leading addiction specialist and government "drug czar" Jindrich Voboril, the expert group has been meeting regularly since December to prepare a draft law on the liberalisation and possible legalisation of recreational cannabis use, sale and production in the Czech Republic.

Two men were arrested in the northern city of Thessaloniki on Wednesday afternoon for possessing and selling drugs, local police said Thursday.

A joint operation between the police's drug unit in Athens and its security division in Kalamata, southern Greece, had led to the dismantling of a drug racket worth at least 350,000 euros, the Hellenic Police (ELAS) said in a press release on Tuesday.