Psychoactive drugs

Port authorities on the Ionian island of Corfu confiscated 55,400 8-gram canisters of laughing gas (nitrous oxide) on Wednesday.

According to the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (IAPR), the canisters containing the gas also known as "hippy crack" - as well as balloons containing N2O - were found in a warehouse owned by an alcoholic drinks trader.

Turkish police have seized 185 kilograms (408 pounds) of cocaine in an operation in Istanbul, an official said on March 4.

The man was a pedestrian, Croatian website Index is reporting on Monday.

Residents in the downtown Athens areas of Kypseli, Pedion tou Areos, Votanikos, Plaka, Exarchia, Kolonaki and other neighborhoods have sent a letter to the government and the municipal authority protesting plans for the creation of areas where habitual drug users will be able to safely inject narcotics under the supervision of trained staff.

Egypt detained a Turkish man and a German woman for drug smuggling after they flew in to Cairo international airport carrying 11 kilograms of cocaine. (File photo)

A 27-year-old Brazilian man who swallowed 95 packages containing a total of 1.7 kilos of cocaine was arrested on Thursday at Athens International Airport.

Police said the man flew into Athens from Sao Paolo via Zurich.

He appeared before an Athens prosecutor later in the day.

Police in the northern port city of Thessaloniki arrested five people believed to be members of a gang selling drugs in the area around Aristotle University, in a large-scale sweep over the last 24 hours.

Two of those arrested are also accused of resisting arrest.

A gang that had been distributing large quantities of drugs across Attica has been unraveled after a string of raids around the country on Monday and Tuesday, police said on Wednesday.

A total of 21 people have been arrested -mainly Greek and Albanian nationals.

Laboratory for Synthetic Drug was discovered in Radomir, the Ministry of Interior announced.
 
The police operation was held on February 5th. by officers of the Directorate General Directorate for Combating Organized Crime, ODMWP-Pernik and RU-Radomir, under the supervision and management of the Pernik Regional Prosecutor's Office.

Istanbul police on Jan. 31 seized some 1,350 kilogram (2,976 pounds) of illegal drugs including heroin and skunk weed in separate operations across the city, governor said.