Medical cannabis

The first medicinal cannabis company licensed in Greece has announced that it has completed its first export of product.

Tikun Olam, which runs a state-of-the-art facility in Kria Vrysi, outside Corinth, said the first overseas order was destined for Switzerland.

Its products have been available on prescription in the Greek market since March.

Researchers from five universities spread across the country have united forces and initiated a project to explore the effects of cannabis plants on schizophrenia, in an attempt to identify an active ingredient.

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

Initial findings on the effects of medicinal cannabis on Greek patients were presented at a recent conference

Greek Police arrested seven people believed to be members of a gang that cultivated cannabis seedlings in a house in the region of Attica and seized 275 kilograms of processed and raw cannabis.

An increasing number of drug users in Greece are turning to cannabis and cocaine, according to the report of the Greek Therapy Center for Dependent Individuals (KETHEA) for 2022, a year in which the number of users rose again due to the decline of the pandemic.

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.

Data that BIRN has obtained show that while only three cases of indoor cannabis cultivation were recorded during 2021, the number of cases rose to 18 by May this year.

BIRN asked police for data over the last five years, but they did not have records for before 2021.

“At the same time, it seems that cannabis use has a periodicity, ie it increases in winter and decreases in the summer months”

A 59-year old Dragoljub Mrdjic and his wife Sanja. Photo: Sasa Dragojlo/BIRN