Entheogens

Law enforcement officials seized more than 34 kilograms of khat, a traditional African herbal stimulant, in Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport on Jan. 2.

Police in Kastoria, northern Greece, on Friday detained a 27-year-old man after finding 20 kilograms of cannabis in his car. Officers confiscated 37 packages containing the drugs that had been hidden under the back seat.

Authorities are seeking to determine whether the 27-year-old belongs to a drug smuggling racket.
 

Greek authorities say they have seized more than six tons of processed cannabis from a tugboat in the Mediterranean Sea and arrested the vessel's six Syrian crew members.

A Merchant Marine Ministry statement said the Andreas was intercepted about 50 miles south of the island of Crete and boarded by special harbor police forces on Tuesday.

Four Vietnamese and one Chinese national, aged between 28 and 35, are facing multiple charges of running a criminal organization, violating drugs laws and forgery after police raided three fully equipped labs used for growing and processing hydroponic cannabis.

American medics from Colorado (US) say they have established the world's first death due to marijuana. They published their research in the journal Clinical Practice and Cases in Emergency Medicine, which also reported Newsweek.

The U.N.’s labor agency said on Nov. 9 that it will stop taking funding from the tobacco industry and will not extend its public-private partnerships with a business faulted for harmful health effects.

The 1st International Cannabis Exhibition is scheduled to take place in Athens, in January.
The exhibition will take place for the first time in Greece and will be held from the 12th to the 14th of January 2018 at the Tae Kwondo indoor gym in Athens.

Polish pharmacists will be allowed to treat people with cannabis after the drug was legalised for medicinal purposes, The Independent writes.

Under new regulations that came into force on Wednesday cannabis from imported plants can be processed at Polish pharmacies - as long as it has been logged with the country's Office for Registration of Medical Products.

Early in the morning on the Mantineia plateau, the air is chilly. Even in summer, the temperature drops considerably during the night despite climbing above 30 Celsius during the day. "Big swings in temperature aid the production of resin in cannabis plants," Argyris Mountzouris told us as he laid out a large cloth on the ground upon which to collect the plants.

Whether it was at a music festival, a student dorm, those cakes your friend brought back from Amsterdam or that house that always smells a bit funny, cannabis has a way of integrating itself into many different lifestyles and levels of society.

While its effects on the body are often disputed there is no denying its popularity and its widespread availability.