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The Albanian Parliament on Friday legalized cannabis for medical purposes in a country once known as a European crossroads<\/a> for marijuana trafficking.<\/p>\n

The Parliament voted 69-23 to allow limited and controlled growth of cannabis plants, a move harshly contested by the opposition.<\/p>\n

It was not clear how the medical cannabis will be regulated. The government believes that allowing limited production of cannabis can boost tax revenue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

VENEZUELAN EX-SPY CHIEF, CH\u00c1VEZ CONFIDANT, EXTRADITED TO US ON DRUG TRAFFICKING CHARGES<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Marijuana growing flourished in Albania in the past as drug traffickers<\/a> exploited a lack of strong governance in the post-Communist country.<\/p>\n

After coming to power in 2013, the left-wing Socialist Party government of Prime Minister Edi Rama set destroying cannabis plants as a main target.<\/p>\n

Over the next two years it destroyed millions of cannabis plants with an estimated market value of $8.5 billion, more than two-thirds of the country\u2019s annual gross domestic product at that time.<\/p>\n

In 2014, a police officer was fatally shot during a crackdown on a southern village using armored personnel carriers. Police came under automatic weapon and rocket fire from drug growers.<\/p>\n

Albania is still a main route for trafficking hard drugs. Police still crack down on isolated cases of cannabis growing, but much less often than a decade ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/albania-european-crossroads-marijuana-trafficking-legalizes-medicinal-cannabis-despite-hard-opposition <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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