Drug control law

Four people were being questioned on drug-related charges on Monday following their arrest the day before in a police crackdown in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia. 

Three of the four suspects are migrants without legal residence papars, according to police.

25 people from a disrupted drug trafficking group and their leader Radmil Ranov, have been circulated as internationally wanted. European arrest warrants have been issued for them. The group forced dealers to sell drugs on their behalf, reports BNT.

A police officer was among five suspects arrested on the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes on drugs-related charges last weekend, authorities said on Tuesday.
According to police, the arrests were made during raids on the suspects' homes on Sunday which yielded around 400 grams of cannabis and nine marijuana plants.

Thirty-two people have been charged with drug offenses after a crime group has been dismantled, seven of them have been remanded in custody, the head of the Special Prosecutor's Office, Dimitar Petrov, said at a press briefing regarding the law enforcement operation, Focus News Agency reported. For part of the accused a European arrest warrant has been issued, he said. 

Authorities said on Thursday that officers of the financial crimes squad and narcotics unit seized 3.4 kilos of heroin on Tuesday that had been concealed in African folk art paintings which arrived in a package at a courier office in Athens from Mozambique via France.

Seven people were arrested on the campus of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Tuesday on drug dealing charges.

The suspects are six Greeks aged between 21 and 49, and a 26-year-old foreign national.

They were all found in possession of cannabis and narcotic pills that they intended to sell, police said.

Worrying data about young people and drugs. Every fourth student in our country has smoked marijuana, according to latest research. According to statistics, over 25% of young people have used a drug.
 

Today we mark the International Day for Drug Abuse.

According to the National Focal Points, cannabis is the most commonly used drug in Bulgaria. More and more women and young people are reaching it.

27% of our students have smoked marijuana at least once in their lives. For the last 16 years, their share has increased by 13%.

Police in Thessaloniki arrested an alleged leading member of a drug trafficking gang, following a police operation in the area of Efkarpia on Thursday, according to state-run news agency ANA-MPA.

Police have unraveled a gang that grew large quantities of cannabis in a remote location in the region of Viotia, central Greece.
Six people were arrested during a police operation in an area called Viliza Stefanis which started on Monday and ended on Tuesday morning.