{"id":8650,"date":"2016-03-24T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T07:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pevgrow.com\/blog\/marijuana-in-greece\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T17:43:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T15:43:01","slug":"marijuana-in-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pevgrow.com\/blog\/en\/marijuana-in-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Marijuana in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This European country five years ago proposed decriminalizing drug use in small quantities<\/strong>. But, nevertheless, this bill never became effective and today the use and possession of cannabis<\/strong>, even in small amounts, is still being penalized.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In September 2011 the then Greek Minister of Justice, Miltiades Papaioanou<\/strong>, would decriminalize the use and possession of small amounts of drugs<\/strong>, marijuana, of course, included. The Minister argued for this decision that anyone who used drugs had no reason to be considered a criminal, “Greek law must be harmonized with European legislation and the person is arrested with small amounts regulated for own consumption will not be considered a criminal. The use of drugs is a disease, not a crime,<\/strong><\/em>” stated Papaioanou. But finally, this bill came not prosper and from then until now there have been many amendments and other proposals on drug law.<\/p>\n

One of the latest amendments were carried out in 2013 and with it substantially reduced the penalty for use or possession of small amounts of cannabis<\/strong>. Currently, the penalty for possession, cultivation or processing of marijuana<\/strong> or any other drug in quantities for personal consumption is a maximum of five months’ imprisonment<\/strong>, which can be switched by a rehabilitation program<\/strong>. At least, imprisonment has been greatly reduced since before this standard imprisonment, albeit for possession of small amounts of drugs, amounting to five years in prison.<\/p>\n

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