#cannabis

Thailand will ban recreational use of marijuana by the end of this year but continue to allow its use for medical purposes, the health minister told Reuters in an interview. ...

Germany’s parliament is expected to pass a law on Friday legalising the cultivation and consumption of a limited amount of cannabis, regularising the behaviour of the 4.5 million Germans estimated ...

A 29-year-old man appeared in court in Paphos on Monday as part of the police’s investigation into a large quantity of drugs found in the village of Emba last ...

The Limassol District Court on Saturday issued an eight-day remand for two men, suspected of receiving nine kilograms of cannabis from abroad. According to police, the two men, 25 and 22, were ...

Two people, aged 23 and 22, were sentenced to four years in prison by the Famagusta district court on Tuesday after being found guilty of charges related to illegal drug possession, intent ...

Police arrested two men, 20 and 28, suspects in a drug bust at Paphos airport, where police found 33 kg of cannabis in their suitcases. The Ykan drug squad worked together with customs ...

The Larnaca criminal court sentenced a man to 15 years in prison on Monday, for having attempted to import a total of 36 kilogrammes of cannabis into Cyprus. The man, a 47-year-old ...

Famagusta CID and drug squad (Ykan) on Sunday arrested a man for possession of a weapon and cannabis in Larnaca, while later in the day another man, who appears to ...

Police in Limassol accused a man of attempting to supply just shy of two grammes of cannabis to a man who was being held in custody on Friday night. The ...

A second man was arrested over a two-kilo cannabis haul in Paphos, police said on Saturday, as the drug squad continued to investigate what appeared to be a drug-dealing ring. ...

A Belgian man appeared in court in the north on Tuesday after having been arrested the previous day when he illegally crossed from the Republic. The man was found by ...

A 33-year-old man was arrested in Limassol on Friday evening after being found to be in possession of a kilogram and a half of cannabis. Police attempted to pull the ...

A 30-year-old man admitted on Monday to charges of importing and illegally possessing around 15kg of drugs for the purpose of supply at the Paphos criminal court. However, he pleaded ...

The trial of a 30-year-old man suspected of being involved in the transport of more than 15kg of cannabis to Cyprus via the Paphos airport is set to begin on ...

Police on Thursday said a 28-year-old man who was found with almost two kilos of cannabis in his possession was arrested. According to the police the 28-year-old was arrested in ...

A 28-year-old received a ten-year prison sentence at Larnaca criminal court on Monday after being found guilty of being in possession of 16 kilos of cannabis. The case emerged after the ...

A 22-year-old was arrested on Sunday after he was found to be in possession of over ten kilos of cannabis. According to the police, at 11.30 members of the drug squad (...

British bases police arrested a 50-year-old man from Dasaki Achnas on Tuesday after 1kg of cannabis and “objects resembling ancient artefacts” were found in his home. According to the Cyprus ...

A 33-year-old man was remanded in custody for eight days on Tuesday by the Famagusta district court after firearms and cannabis were found at his home the previous day. Police ...

Police on Sunday seized a quantity of 13.5kg of cannabis following a coordinated operation by the Limassol drug squad (Ykan), they announced on Monday. During the operation, three people were ...

A 43-year-old man was arrested in possession of 22kg of cannabis, Limassol police said on Saturday. Drug squad officers searched the house of the suspect located in Vasa Koilani village ...

British base police found an improvised explosive device during a search of residential properties in the village of Trachoni in the Akrotiri base area. Bomb defusal experts were called to ...

Germany’s cabinet passed a contentious bill to legalize recreational marijuana use and cultivation, potentially giving further momentum to a worldwide trend to liberalize cannabis laws. The legislation, which still ...

Cannabis is not a harmless drug, deputy director of the drug squad said on Thursday, amid a concerning rise in its use and that of many other illegal substances. Speaking ...