{"id":5950,"date":"2026-05-17T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5950"},"modified":"2026-05-17T09:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T06:47:00","slug":"adonis-georgiades-all-cannabis-products-withdrawn-from-kiosks-and-mini-markets-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5950","title":{"rendered":"Adonis Georgiades: All cannabis products withdrawn from kiosks and mini-markets (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">The <b>Ministry of Health<\/b> is introducing strict restrictions on the <b>purchase purchase of cannabis<\/b> to <b>protect<\/b> <b>adults<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">A <b>radical changes<\/b> to the marketing regime for <b>hemp<\/b> preparations<\/b> are being made by <b>government<\/b>, with <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"94\">Adonis Georgiadis<\/b> announcing immediate interventions. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Talking to Star TV station, the <b data-path-to-node=\"2\" data-index-in-node=\"187\">Health Minister<\/b> made it clear that &#8220;<b>from next week all cannabis products must be withdrawn from the kiosks and mini-markets<\/b>&#8220;, stressing that <b>the relevant legislation will be submitted to Parliament<\/b> without delay.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div class=\"embed-responsive\">   <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">This new intervention is rooted in the bill &#8220;<b>Restructuring of the Innovation Fund &#8211; Patient access to new medicines and treatments&#8230; and other provisions<\/b>&#8220;, which was passed on Friday by the plenary session of the Parliament. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">The new framework puts a definitive stop to the <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"258\">retail sale<\/b> of <b>cannabis and related cannabis<\/b> from <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"313\">premiums, mini-markets and vending machines<\/b>, while also establishing a special <b data-path-to-node=\"3\" data-index-in-node=\"405\">Departmental Cannabis Product Control Registry<\/b> at the Ministry of Health for <b>full oversight<\/b> of the supply chain.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">The authorities&#8217; mobilization was deemed necessary after a chain of incidents where <b data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"82\">underage students<\/b> consumed dangerous preparations such as <b data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"139\">gel and vaporizing oils.<\/b><\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">Mr <b>Georgiades<\/b> asserted that there must be an &#8220;<b>end to the rampant<\/b>&#8221; uncontrolled disposal of these substances. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">Finally, it was clarified that <b data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"353\">pharmaceutical cannabis<\/b> will continue to be <b>available<\/b> strictly<\/b> and only under <b data-path-to-node=\"4\" data-index-in-node=\"425\">medical prescription<\/b>, excluding any possibility of its administration through private online websites.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health introduces strict restrictions on the cannabis market to protect minors.<br \/>\nIn radical changes to the marketing regime for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}