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Balkan States Move Toward Medical Marijuana

Three of the Balkan states to emerge from the ashes of Yugoslavia a generation ago are now among the first countries in the ex-communist world to move toward embracing medical marijuana. Australian firm MGC Pharmaceuticals just announced a deal to distribute its cannabis-derived products in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia. MGC is partnering with the Slovenian supplier Mikro+Polo to market its phytocannabinoid-derived Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs)

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Move Over Amsterdam: This Is Europe’s Outdoor Cannabis Capital

Conventional wisdom and U.S. law enforcement agents agree: Most cannabis smoked in America comes from California. There, the traditional home of marijuana cultivation is the rural, forested counties north of San Francisco known as the “Emerald Triangle.” Europe also has an Emerald Triangle—the impoverished rural hinterlands of Albania, a small, mountainous country of 3.2 million people, less than half the population

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