Austrian cannabis activists are holding a ‘social march’ in Vienna on Saturday 19th September to protest against the planned reform of drug laws which will still criminalize patients who use cannabis to treat pain and symptoms of disease. Organisers expect up to 10,000 people to join the march, which begins at 1pm at Museumsquartier, and […]
When it comes to drugs, Austrians are increasingly turning to cannabis and buying from ‘home growers’ based in Austria, according to a leading public prosecutor in Wiener Neustadt. “People are not buying so many hard drugs, but are increasingly buying cannabis. What’s interesting is that fewer drugs are being imported and the cannabis is frequently […]
The owner of 30 cannabis plants got himself busted after calling police out to his own apartment in Vienna because he felt ill. The 27-year-old man called emergency services around 4 a.m. on Monday, complaining of pain and saying he felt unwell, but he fell asleep before they arrived at his apartment. When emergency services […]
Austria exported 142 kilos of cannabis to foreign pharmaceutical companies last year. In response to a parliamentary question by Health Minister Sabine Oberhauser (SPÖ) last year, Austria’s health agency AGES has revealed that the medical grade cannabis was grown in Hirschstetten, Vienna. It was sold to pharmaceutical companies which used it to make cannabinoid painkillers, […]
Police in Vienna have arrested a man found with numerous marijuana plants drying on clothes racks in his apartment in the Kaisermühlen neighbourhood. A total of five kg of the drug, some of it stored in plastic rubbish sacks, was confiscated by police on Tuesday. A 32-year-old man was charged with possession and dealing cannabis. […]