https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed When it comes to drugs, Austrians are increasingly turning to cannabis and buying from ‘home growers’ based in Austria, according to a leading public prosecutor in Wiener Neustadt. https://www.thelocal.at/20170220/trend-for-home-grown-cannabis-in-austria Mon, 20 Feb 2017 11:35:09 +0100 trend-for-home-grown-cannabis-in-austria An Austrian politician from the Inn Pirate Party, who spent six months in prison for drugs offences, will be allowed to serve the rest of his 18 month sentence under house arrest with an ankle monitor - and can attend local government meetings in Innsbruck, the capital of Tyrol. https://www.thelocal.at/20161223/austrian-district-councillor-can-attend-meetings-with-ankle-monitor Fri, 23 Dec 2016 14:02:22 +0100 austrian-district-councillor-can-attend-meetings-with-ankle-monitor The owner of 30 cannabis plants got himself busted after calling police out to his own apartment in Vienna because he felt ill. https://www.thelocal.at/20160608/cannabis-grower-seized-after-calling-police-out-to-his-own-flat Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:39:47 +0200 cannabis-grower-seized-after-calling-police-out-to-his-own-flat Austrian cannabis activists are holding a ‘social march’ in Vienna on Saturday 19th September to protest against the planned reform of drug laws which will still criminalize patients who use cannabis to treat pain and symptoms of disease. https://www.thelocal.at/20150917/cannabis-activists-to-march-through-vienna Thu, 17 Sep 2015 13:24:01 +0200 cannabis-activists-to-march-through-vienna Austria exported 142 kilos of cannabis to foreign pharmaceutical companies last year. https://www.thelocal.at/20150105/austrian-health-agency-exports-cannabis Mon, 05 Jan 2015 14:56:00 +0100 austrian-health-agency-exports-cannabis Police and firefighters were called out to a routine water leak in a residential building in Schönbrunnerstraße, Vienna, on Sunday night and got more than they bargained for when they discovered a giant cannabis farm. https://www.thelocal.at/20141208/water-break-reveals-cannabis-plantation Mon, 08 Dec 2014 15:53:00 +0100 water-break-reveals-cannabis-plantation An Innsbruck local councillor from the Austrian Pirate Party is being investigated on suspicion of drug trafficking after police raided his apartment and found 2.7 kg of cannabis stored in a safe. https://www.thelocal.at/20141127/local-councillor-found-with-safe-full-of-drugs Thu, 27 Nov 2014 16:43:00 +0100 local-councillor-found-with-safe-full-of-drugs Austria’s centrist Neos party has sparked controversy by speaking out in favour of legalizing cannabis. https://www.thelocal.at/20141029/austrias-neos-argue-in-favour-of-cannabis-legalization Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:39:17 +0100 austrias-neos-argue-in-favour-of-cannabis-legalization Police from the Salzburg district police command of Zell am See announced on Wednesday the arrests of three men who appeared to be running a professional cannabis growing operation in Maria Alm. https://www.thelocal.at/20141008/three-salzburgers-arrested-for-cannabis-growing-op Wed, 08 Oct 2014 17:16:00 +0200 three-salzburgers-arrested-for-cannabis-growing-op The post has something for everybody, according to an Austrian Post slogan, but one pensioner received slightly more than she bargained for when she discovered she’d been sent a package of hashish from Holland. https://www.thelocal.at/20141002/austrian-pensioner-receives-drugs-package Thu, 02 Oct 2014 16:00:02 +0200 austrian-pensioner-receives-drugs-package Police in Vienna have arrested a man found with numerous marijuana plants drying on clothes racks in his apartment in the Kaisermühlen neighbourhood. https://www.thelocal.at/20140924/marijuana-plants-found-on-clothes-racks Wed, 24 Sep 2014 16:05:00 +0200 marijuana-plants-found-on-clothes-racks Hungarian police have busted a 35-year-old amateur gardener who was growing a floating hemp plantation on Lake Neusiedl, on the Austrian border. https://www.thelocal.at/20140911/floating-cannabis-found-on-lake-neusiedl Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:30:04 +0200 floating-cannabis-found-on-lake-neusiedl The organizers of the Legalize Austria association - which campaigns for the legalization of cannabis - is demanding a parliamentary inquiry into the controversial plant and the "technical and factual" issues regarding its legalization. https://www.thelocal.at/20140905/call-for-parliamentary-inquiry-into-cannabis Fri, 05 Sep 2014 19:07:00 +0200 call-for-parliamentary-inquiry-into-cannabis A 29-year-old man is under arrest today after police raided his Salzburg apartment, and found 14 cannabis plants under cultivation, as well as a small amount resting on a coffee table. https://www.thelocal.at/20140901/salzburg-pot-grower-betrayed-by-smell Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:14:00 +0200 salzburg-pot-grower-betrayed-by-smell Austria's Green party's youth wing has launched an initiative to drum up support for legalization of cannabis, by commencing a tour around the country promoting the benefits of smoking or otherwise ingesting the currently-banned natural substance. https://www.thelocal.at/20140830/greens-launch-cannabis-legalization-tour Sat, 30 Aug 2014 20:43:00 +0200 greens-launch-cannabis-legalization-tour The non-profit association 'Legalize! Austria' has introduced a parliamentary citizen's initiative on Wednesday, to remove cannabis from being banned within the scope of the Austrian Narcotics act. https://www.thelocal.at/20140806/high-participation-in-cannabis-legalization-initiative Wed, 06 Aug 2014 17:25:00 +0200 high-participation-in-cannabis-legalization-initiative Burgenland narcotics investigators arrested three men on Thursday in Vienna and Mistelbach in Lower Austria that are believed to have grown and sold cannabis in the past eight months worth €170,000. https://www.thelocal.at/20140801/burgenland-police-smash-drug-ring Fri, 01 Aug 2014 15:35:00 +0200 burgenland-police-smash-drug-ring Police in the district of Braunau near Innviertel in Upper Austria discovered an indoor cannabis plantation with around 240 plants. https://www.thelocal.at/20140801/apartment-used-to-grow-240-cannabis-plants Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:46:35 +0200 apartment-used-to-grow-240-cannabis-plants A man was spotted on Vienna's U3 metro underground line traveling with a shopping trolley that contains what looks suspiciously like a small cannabis plant on the weekend. https://www.thelocal.at/20140729/topless-subway-rider-rides-green Tue, 29 Jul 2014 18:24:00 +0200 topless-subway-rider-rides-green Georg Huß, a 42-year-old man sentenced to four years in prison for possession of only 750 grammes (26 ounces) of cannabis, has been on a hunger strike since June 23rd in protest against the severity of his punishment. https://www.thelocal.at/20140716/hunger-striker-protests-pot-prison-penalty Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:08:00 +0200 hunger-striker-protests-pot-prison-penalty