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Questions and complaints are received daily by the National Pharmaceutical Organization (EOF) concerning medicinal cannabis products, focusing on the "misleading way" they are presented, "creating the impression that they are" miraculous "products with multiple beneficial properties, since their promotion "involves claims that are specific to pharmaceuticals only, conferring them the property of preventing, treating or curing human disease".

The Greek government has officially granted a license to a company to cultivate hemp in Greece.

The Greek Parliament passed a bill with an extended majority allowing the production of cannabis for medicinal reasons. Apart from the government (SYRIZA and ANEL), the bill was also backed by opposition parties Democratic Alignment and To Potami while major opposition party New Democracy (ND), the Communist party (KKE), Golden Dawn and the Union of Centrists voted against it.