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 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 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 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 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 Police in the west Carinthian town of Spittal an der Drau have discovered a small plantation of cannabis plants in a house, according to the RegioNews Network. https://www.thelocal.at/20140710/cannabis-grow-room-found-in-spittal-an-der-drau Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:02:00 +0200 cannabis-grow-room-found-in-spittal-an-der-drau Police discovered a professional scale marijuana plantation in the basement of a detached house in Vienna's Danube City on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.at/20140708/cannabis-grow-room-discovered-in-danube-city Tue, 08 Jul 2014 11:22:00 +0200 cannabis-grow-room-discovered-in-danube-city With the help of a sniffer dog police have discovered a cannabis crop in a flat in Schwechat, near Vienna, as well as several bags of undelivered mail. https://www.thelocal.at/20140523/police-dog-finds-cannabis-and-missing-post Fri, 23 May 2014 16:36:00 +0200 police-dog-finds-cannabis-and-missing-post