Drug culture

Gail Holst-Warhaft, director of the Mediterranean Studies initiative (2004 onwards) and Faculty Associate of the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University, was born in Australia, lives in the United States but has a heart that beats to the tune of rembetika – a Greek music genre that was once considered the music of tekes and hashish.

Turkey seized some 4.4 million drug pills in 2013, while the number was some 4.8 million across the European Union the same year, according to Prof. Necdet Ünüvar, the head of Turkey's Technical Board for the Fight Against Drugs. 

The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development’s report from “Health at a Glance 2015″ shows that how you feel depends on where you live? Charts show how factors are influenced depending on where you live.

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Greeks are drinking less than they did in 2000 and have now dropped their alcohol consumption to beneath the OECD average.

An official from the Turkish Presidency has shared images of cigarette boxes belonging to village heads (muhtars) who have reportedly quit smoking at the request of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, known as a fierce opponent of smokers.

Unlike Mark Twain?s experience with New York, returning to Washington D.C. after an absence of a mere six months in April I found quite of bit of moral decadence: Cannabis had been legalized. To my chagrin, only its consumption, but not its sale, was allowed.

The 1st Cannabis Festival aimed at legalizing cannabis use in Greece was rendered a success on May 9. An international conference is being organized under the aegis of the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government. Greek pro-cannabis activists point that legalization of the drug would only benefit the national economy, lining state coffers.

A number of drug-related issues will be explored by the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA) on June 4 in its annual overview of the European drug situation.

Two Islamic parties have proposed legislation that would ban all consumption of alcoholic drinks and bring jail terms of up to two years for offenders in Indonesia, home to the world's largest Muslim population. 

Some 33 people have been detained in an anti-drug operation in Istanbul, with police accusing the suspects of selling drugs in front of walls where they had written anti-drugs graffiti in order to cover their illegal acts.