Drugs

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky (pictured) called on the Verkhovna Rada to «honestly legalize for everyone» cannabis-based medicines. He also stressed that medical marijuana should be produced on the territory of the country.

In St. Petersburg, previously convicted local residents were detained, who transported more than 200 kilograms of cocaine in a fruit truck.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported that after the weakening of pandemic lockdowns, cocaine production in the world increased by a third in 2021.

In the first month of this year, the country produced medicines worth 44.5 billion rubles.

Ex-deputy of the Nekrasovsky rural settlement of the Yaroslavl municipal district Alexander Bortnikov, expelled from the United Russia party in February 2022, was found guilty in the case of a drug laboratory. The Yaroslavl Regional Court sentenced him to 15 years and 3 months in a strict regime colony.

The Prosecutor General's Office revealed cartel collusion in a third of Russian regions when purchasing drugs for cancer patients. This was announced by the head of the department Igor Krasnov.