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XYLOKASTRO, Greece (Reuters) – Konstantinos Syros turned to cannabis 26 years ago after a motorcycle accident left him with deformed arm and debilitating pain that conventional treatments could not assuage. For years he had to buy it illegally. Now, he plans to grow it himself.
Greece legalized cannabis for medical use last year, and in March this year it lifted a ban on growing and producing it, in the hope of drawing foreign investment into the sector.
The law permitting Greeks to grow cannabis has come as a relief to patients, who say that lifting the ban on using it was only half the battle, as long as it remained hard to get.
The number seeking medicinal cannabis has grown “by thousands,” said Syros, who heads the Organisation for Patients Supporting Medicinal Use of Cannabis and lives off a disability pension. “They call me desperately asking for the medicine and…
