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Albanian government presents second law draft for cannabis legalisation
Friday, 07 October 2022The second draft of a law on cultivating and processing cannabis for medicinal and industrial purposes has been put forward by the Albanian government, bringing the plant another step closer to at le ...
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Graft, drug trafficking threaten Albania's chances of joining EU
Monday, 04 October 2021Researcher Fatjona Mejdini states that the drug problem had its roots in 1991, when Albania went from an isolated communist dictatorship straight to capitalism. "They were tough times for everyone," ...
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Generations of Albanians lived off cannabis production. Can they stop?
Monday, 12 April 2021Large-scale cannabis cultivation in Albania dates to the early 1990s, not long after the fall of the country’s Communist dictatorship, when the parlous state of the Albanian economy led to widespread ...
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Cannabis cultivation in Albania expected to increase
Monday, 01 June 2020Albania is expected to see an increase of cannabis production in the wake of the coronavirus. According to a report compiled by Europol, the cultivation of herbal cannabis is expected to increase as ...
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Big source of illicit cannabis, Albania mulls legalising medical use
Monday, 25 May 2020On May 9, Albania’s Socialist Party Prime Minister, Edi Rama, announced that his government had been quietly working for the past year on a bill that would make way for the legalisation of medical ca ...
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Albania, once haven of illicit cannabis, set to legalise crop for medical use
Tuesday, 12 May 2020Albania plans to legalise the cultivation of cannabis for medical purposes, six years after beginning a crackdown on an illegal trade that turned it, by some accounts, into Europe’s largest outdoor g ...
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Albanian gov't working to legalize cultivation of medical cannabis
Sunday, 10 May 2020The Albanian government is close to concluding a draft law which allows for the cultivation of medical cannabis in the country. According to Rama, the government has been working on the draft law for ...
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Cannabis sales in EU raise $13 billion for crime gangs
Tuesday, 26 November 2019Europeans spent at least 11.6 billion euros (£9.9 billion) in 2017 on illegal cannabis purchases, confirming marijuana as the largest drugs market in the 28-country European Union, the European Monit ...
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Albania cracks down on cannabis trade ahead of hoped-for EU talks
Friday, 21 July 2017Thousands of small producers have made Albania, Europe’s second-poorest country, its biggest open-air producer of cannabis, exported mainly to western Europe through Greece and Italy. But as Albania ...
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Albania grapples with cannabis, a hurdle to EU accession
Wednesday, 21 June 2017As Albania gears up for elections, one huge challenge facing the Balkan country has been low on the campaign agendas: the scourge of its cannabis fields, which threatens to hinder EU accession. Mount ...
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Albania: Europe's cannabis paradise
Monday, 02 January 2017Despite all its promises, the Albanian government under Prime Minister Edi Rama has not managed to significantly reduce poverty in the country. Unemployment is high, welfare benefits are low - only 7 ...
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Europe's outdoor cannabis capital
Thursday, 01 December 2016Albania has become the largest producer of outdoor-grown cannabis in Europe. The potent plant has been described as "green gold" for struggling farmers. In a poor nation, it's a billion-euro industry ...
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Albania cracks down on marijuana production in key southern village
Wednesday, 18 June 2014With the fruits of its labor turning up in Italy, Greece and, last year, Germany, Albania has come under increasing pressure from the European Union to crack down on cannabis production in Lazaret lo ...
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Cannabis production and markets in Europe
Tuesday, 26 June 2012This study brings together available evidence to provide a comprehensive analysis of cannabis production and markets across the EU. It combines information from EMCDDA routine reporting — data on pat ...
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