The legal status of cannabis in Slovenia
The cultivation of cannabis with a low tetrahydrocannabinol content (less than 0.2%, in accordance with EU rules) to the area less than 0.1 hectares is legal in Slovenia and does not require any licensing documentation on the part of government agencies.
Slovenia lags a long history of use as a malonarkoticheskoy and psychoactive hemp. Currently malonarkoticheskaya hemp is allowed for cultivation on an industrial scale, and the use of cannabis for medical purposes is not an offense.
Industrial crops technical hemp
The cultivation of cannabis with a low tetrahydrocannabinol content (less than 0.2%, in accordance with EU rules) to the area less than 0.1 hectares is legal in Slovenia and does not require any licensing documentation on the part of government agencies. Growing hemp malonarkoticheskoy of more than 0.1 hectares of sown area is legal, but requires government approval. At the expense of domestic production, cannabis growers Slovenia satisfy about 80% of the demand for raw materials and the production of industrial hemp.
In Slovenia, officially the technical hemp grown for the last 10 years. After Slovenia joined the European Union in 2004, the countries to harmonize domestic legislation with the EU regulatory acts on issues relating to industrial konoplevodstva.
From that moment, residents countries are actively began to revive the tradition of hemp production, as well as folk rituals associated with the cultivation of various pagan rituals associated with planting traditional crops zernrvyh country.
The use of psychoactive cannabis for medical purposes
From a legal point of view, the cultivation of cannabis for medical purposes in the country is currently not allowed. However, an active debate is taking place in recent years, associated with the study of medicinal cannabis building. Within the framework of various activities aimed at the legalization of the use of psychoactive cannabis for medical purposes in 2012 in the debate, which took place in the framework of parlamentsoy session, was invited well-known Canadian volunteer Rick Simpson, in order to share experiences with psychoactive cannabis for medical purposes in the territory North America.
Hemp social clubs Slovenian (Slovenski Konopljin Socialni Klub) play a crucial role in lobbying for the adoption of legal acts aimed at the resolution of the application in the country psychoactive cannabis in the medical field. It is thanks to the activists of the social structure of the country will be available to sales cannabinoid hemp oil. That's what it is used for medical purposes telling Peak Armavir, during his stay in Slovenia at the World Hemp Congress, held in 2012 in the city of Levanda. Despite the fact that medical studies on the effects on the human body of hydrocarbon oils in Slovenia at the moment not spent already in 2016 sick people waiting for the start of its sales in pharmacies in the country.
Despite the fact that the benefits of the use of cannabinoid oil to treat a number of serious, including chronic diseases are well known, in February 2014, two projects of the relevant legislation had been blocked the parliamentary Health Committee. But just a few months later, in June 2014 under pressure from non-governmental organizations and patients who need drugs for the treatment of psychoactive cannabis, the Government of Slovenia adopted the position of the need to supply drugs citizens of psychoactive hemp for the treatment of established diseases list.
The highlight of the European hemp tourism
Near the capital of the country in the national park "Trnulya Manor" is hemp manor. It includes a house built using hemp raw materials, areas of land on which is grown malonarkoticheskaya hemp, a restaurant serving more than a hundred dishes, made from different hemp ingredients, as well as the hotel (in the form of chalets), numbers which are not only styled under hemp motifs, but manufactured using raw hemp.
As tourism in Slovenia is relatively weakly developed, the appearance of small well-planned ecotourism centers is one highlight, which attracts tourists from all over Europe to Slovenia. Hemp Finca in Country Estate Trnulja is an excellent example of how little you can use the idea of using hemp beznarkoticheskoy for the development of non-core areas konoplevodstva.
Information taken from the site http://tku.org.ua