Pharmacology

Zlatibor Loncar, Serbia's Minister of health, has admitted that use of cannabis can produce good results in medicine and has said that the government may legalise its use for medical treatment.

"The Ministry of Health will not object to the introduction into medicine of anything that gives results in treatment, including marijuana," he said.

Despite occasional efforts to outlaw the habit, the smoking of all kinds of tobacco and opium was a favorite pastime of the Ottomans

 Ceiling to be built into electronic system after reports of clinics overcharging

In a bid to rein in its expenses, the country’s largest healthcare provider, EOPYY, is to announce a limit in the coming days on the number and type of diagnostic tests that doctors affiliated with EOPYY can issue prescriptions for, Kathimerini understands.

A 25-year-old police officer has been arrested in northeastern Greece on suspicion of drug dealing.

He was arrested with five other men on Wednesday, when police raided a house in Komotini.

The raid was conducted after police had arrested an Albanian man at the city’s train station a day earlier.

He had several small packets of cannabis and cocaine in his possession.

A 23-year-old woman faced drug trafficking charges on Saturday after a routine drug check on board a passenger ferry returning from the islands to the Port of Piraeus, found her to be in possession 106 grams of cocaine.

The young woman turned the drugs over to port police following an announcement that a canine unit was about to inspect the Blue Star 2 ferry for drugs.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested at Athens International Airport while trying to smuggle 12 kilos of heroin into the country, police said on Friday.

The Pakistani man arrived in Athens on Thursday night after flying from his homeland via Istanbul.

Authorities said they found the drugs in packages hidden inside his luggage.

Police has destroyed almost 10 tonnes of cannabis near southern Bulgarian town of Petrich, said the Blagoevgrad directorate of the Interior Ministry.

Acting on tips from informants, police found 532 marijuana plants near the village of Krandzhilnitsa, which weighed more than 7 tonnes. The owner of the land plot is yet unidentified. 

Nearly 14 tonnes of cannabis plants were found and destroyed in a police raid in the village of Lebnitsa in Southwest Bulgaria, the Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Interior in Blagoevgrad reported.

Regional police increase action against illegal drugs, trafficking

Drug enforcement officers in Kalamata have arrested a 34-year-old man suspected of being behind a plantation with 315 cannabis plants that was raided in early July on the outskirts of the coastal town of Pylos.