How Greece is Growing Medical Marijuana to Tackle High Unemployment

Greece is taking advantage of its warm climate to cultivate pot and create more than 2,000 jobs. The Greek economy has been hammered by 10 years of financial crisis, with unemployment topping 20 per cent every year since 2012. Now, the government thinks pot growers can help. A project to cultivate, process and export medical marijuana in Veroia, in the fertile north of the country, shows how Greece sees cannabis as a possible growth industry…