drugs

Two people were arrested and other two are probed at large for drug possession following thorough checkups conducted by the officers of the Craiova Department Fighting Organized Crime, southern Romania.

Romania’s Supreme court decided Wednesday to send back to the Court of Appeals for a retrial the file “Cocaine for VIPs”, which involves Ion Alexandru Tiriac, son of businessman Ion Tiriac, who had been cleared of all charges in February.

Two heads of the Bucharest underworld were placed on the generally wanted list for evading prosecution, after border police and organized crime prosecutors have clear evidence they are involved in an international drug dealing case.

Romanian health minister Eugen Nicolaescu said that despite the conduct of medicine distributors, the prices for medicine might be lowered, because there are ways to hide profit in prices.

Romania’s Ministry of Public Health will start on Monday a thorough control of drugstores and pharmaceutical suppliers, health minister Eugen Nicolaescu said Saturday.

Cannabis is the most used illegal drug in Europe, some 70 million European citizens stating that they have tried it at least once in their life, while 23 million people said they used cannabis in the past year, according to the annual report on the drug situation in Europe, presented in Bucharest.