It was November 2014 when Albania first debated legalising cannabis for medical use, nudged to consider it by businessman Koco Kokedhima, then an MP for the Socialist Party, who believed the country stood to benefit hugely.
His former colleagues in the party, however, ruled that Albania was not ready.
Almost six years later, on May 9, Albania’s Socialist Party Prime Minister, Edi Rama, announced that his government had been quietly working for the past year on a bill that would make way for just that – the legalisation of medical cannabis.
“The draft will be ready very soon and open for public discussion,” Rama said.
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