Medicinal plants

Police has busted three high-tech outfitted greenhouses for cultivating cannabis in a former industrial building in Nova Mahala locality in Sofia Vrazhdebna district. This happened during a special police operation.

Five people were also detained in the raid - all with criminal records, two of them previously convicted.

The intense interest of representatives of important American companies for investments in the field of medical cannabis in Greece, was recorded in an online event co-organized on Thursday, May 20, by the Hellenic Investment and Foreign Trade Company SA.

At least 40% of the rose fields in our country this year may remain unharvested.

If this happens, already in the autumn some of the traditional growers of oil-bearing roses will destroy their plantations.

This was predicted by representative of the Association of Rose Producers on the Bulgarian National Radio. The reasons are low purchasing prices and lack of markets.

The knowledge students acquire in the field of mechatronics at the Faculty of Technical Sciences in Cacak is applicable in the industrial automation, but also in everyday life, and could replace hundreds of workers with incredible effect.

The government plans to table a draft bill shortly reforming the laws around cultivation and export of medical cannabis products, according to proposal presented by Development and Investments Minister Adonis Georgiadis at last week's cabinet meeting.

A bill that seeks to reform the framework for the production and export of medical cannabis was presented to the cabinet on Thursday by Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis.

The bill facilitates the export of medical cannabis products, adhering to the same procedures that apply to generic medicinal products produced in Greece.

A 33-year-old Turkish woman, who returned from the U.S. to her hometown Burdur in southwestern Turkey, wrote a success story by launching an anhydrous agriculture project.

Aynur Onur was working as a faculty member at Indiana University, U.S., before her return to Kayalı village in Burdur.

Yet, even with 22 countries in Europe already allowing the use of cannabis for medical purposes, Albania's announcement has raised eyebrows.

Greek police on the rugged mountainous border with Albania on Monday arrested three Albanian men accused of illegally picking large quantities of medicinal wild herbs — and of violating Greece's Covid-19 quarantine laws.

Police in Athens on Thursday were questioning a 37-year-old Greek man in connection with a hydroponic nursery where cannabis was being cultivated that was raided by officers in the neighborhood of Exarchia on Wednesday.

The nursery was fully equipped to produce and package cannabis for distribution in Exarchia and the broader area, according to police.