Greece Bans Cannabis Products From Kiosks and Mini Markets After Minors Found Buying Gummies and Vaping Oils

Greece's authorities volition prohibition cannabis products from kiosks, mini markets and vending machines arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent week, Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis announced, aft a bid of incidents successful which minors consumed cannabis-derived gummies and vaping oils freely disposable successful convenience outlets crossed the country.

"All cannabis products indispensable beryllium withdrawn from kiosks and mini markets," Mr. Georgiadis said, adding that further legislative provisions would beryllium submitted to Parliament wrong days arsenic portion of what helium described arsenic a crackdown connected an "uncontrolled market."

He said the authorities aims to "put an extremity to lawlessness" successful the sector.

The prohibition follows parliamentary support past week of a broader healthcare measure that passed by bulk ballot and includes a caller integer registry wrong the Health Ministry to show cannabis merchandise proviso chains and amended marketplace traceability.

The authorities besides extends the income prohibition to vending machines, closing a spread that had allowed casual automated access.

Public wellness officials and schoolhouse authorities had raised alarms implicit the past twelvemonth arsenic hemp-derived and cannabis-adjacent products proliferated successful convenience retail without accordant regulatory enforcement — a marketplace enlargement that outpaced existing oversight frameworks.

The ministry stressed that aesculapian cannabis volition proceed to beryllium dispensed exclusively done doc prescriptions and regulated pharmaceutical channels, and volition not beryllium affected by the caller restrictions targeting recreational and user cannabis products.