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More than 1 tonne of raw cannabis was seized by the port authorities in Gytheio, southern Greece. Cannabis has been found aboard a Delaware-flagged yacht called "My Dream," sailing in Lakonia Bay, according to BGNES.

Two foreign nationals, aged 42 and 28, were arrested.

Police in northwestern Greece on Wednesday seized 95 kilograms of cannabis after finding the drugs in abandoned rucksacks in the area of Negades, near Ioannina.
The three rucksacks contained 95 packages of the drugs.
The local police narcotics unit is investigating the incident. 

Two foreign nationals, aged 24 and 35, faced drug charges on Saturday after being arrested on Friday night with one-and-a-half kilograms of cannabis in the area of Malevizi, near Iraklio, on Crete.
According to investigators, the two suspects had been keeping the drugs in a large open-air storage area.

Officers of Attica Security's Anti-Drugs Squad on Monday arrested one man in connection to a cannabis plantation discovered in a forested area near the village of Inoi, in West Attica.
The 50-year-old suspect is believed to be responsible for the organization, cultivation and supervision of the plantation.

Anti-narcotics police in Turkey have seized more than 1.2 million cannabis sativa roots and 337 kilograms (742.958) of marijuana in an air-supported operation, officials said on June 28.

June 26th is the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking 2019. On June 26th, 1988, the United Nations Day for the Fight Against Drug Addiction was celebrated for the first time. The date was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1987.

Officers from the narcotics unit of the Attica security police located and seized hundreds of cannabis trees from an agricultural area in Artemida, eastern Attica, and arrested a 35-year-old foreign national believed to have been responsible for running the illegal cultivation, police said on Tuesday.

Marijuana chemical residue has been found in incense burners apparently used during funerary rites at a mountainous site in western China in about 500 B.C., providing what may be the oldest evidence of smoking cannabis for its mind-altering properties.

In the last year, young Bulgarians have used cannabis most often, but heroin sends most people to clinics. This is shown in the annual report of the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction, BNT reported.

Encouraged by developments in Serbia's immediate neighbourhood, IRKA has stepped up a campaign with letters, marches and a concert in front of the Serbian parliament to lobby lawmakers to decriminalise the use of cannabis.