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Greece Hopes Its Economy Can Get High From Medical Weed - Cannabis News
Investors in medical cannabis projects are focusing on Greece, where a warm, sunny climate and potentially favorable future legislation could help the government deliver on a promise to pull the country out of a seven-year economic crisis.
Growers have expressed interest in pumping more than 1.5 billion euros ($1.74 billion) into projects to build greenhouse parks for the cultivation and manufacture of cannabis, Evangelos Apostolou, minister of rural development and food, said in an interview.
That would give Greece a share of a global market the government says could be worth 200 billion euros in the next 10 years.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is counting on investment to spur economic recovery and allow the country to exit a third bailout program.
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Eleni Chrepa and Antonis Galanopoulos ~ Bloomberg.com ~
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