Written by Tyler Durden
The Ukrainian Drug Control Service late issued its first licence to import medical marijuana into Ukraine, after the medical marijuana legalization bill officially entered into force in Ukraine last August. In fresh years respective organizations have lobbied for at least partial legalization of marijuana in Ukraine – most of them supported by George Soros. It's not a coincidence.
The Ukrainian Drug Control Service late issued its first licence to import medical marijuana into Ukraine, the paper was released on June 2, 2025, reported Ukrainian RBC news portal.
In Ukraine, the Medical marijuana Legalization Act officially entered into force in August 2024. This allows the distribution of cannabis-based drugs for medical, technological and industrial purposes. As documented by Remix News in the past, medical and legal marijuana is not as mild as promoted and only helped fuel the drug and intellectual crisis in countries where it has already been legalised.
As V4NA reports, several organizations have been lobbying for years for legalizing marijuana, at least partially, in Ukraine. In the summertime of 2022, a bill was submitted on the legalization of medicinal marijuana products in Ukraine, erstwhile Ukrainian wellness minister Viktor Liaszko announced that the Ukrainian cabinet approved a bill regulating the distribution of cannabis plants for medical, industrial, technological and research-development purposes, in order to make conditions for patients to access cannabis-based products in the treatment of cancer and post-traumatic stress syndrome caused by the war.
"We realize the negative consequences of war on intellectual health. We can see how many people will request medical attention as a consequence of this impact. And we realize that there is no time to wait" – The Minister wrote about draft bill on its social media profile.
The country has organised "conopt marches", calls for legalization, since 2000, but the problem has only evolved into serious lobbying efforts a fewer years ago. president Poroshenko and then Minister of wellness Ulana Suprun, who tried to convince Ukrainians for respective years that legalization was "normal practice in civilized countries".
Several organizations intensively lobby Ukraine for legalizing marijuana, seemingly serving the interests of global financial players.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefaniszyna, 1 of the initiators of the bill, was a direct co-worker of erstwhile wellness minister Ulana Suprun. Previously she was head of the charity of Patients of Ukraine with a monthly wage of 70,000 hryvnia (about 1,800 euro). Ukrainian news portal Klymenko Time draws attentionthat in Ukraine this is considered a reasonably good salary. As it says, the organization of Patients of Ukraine actively lobbyed for the legalization of marijuana.
Like the organization of 100% Life, whose leader, Dmytro Sherembey, had previously collaborated with Olga Stefanishyna in the organization of Patients of Ukraine, as well as led respective joint projects and events with Ulana Supron.
Janina Sokolova actively acted to legalize medical marijuana
An crucial function in the run for legalization was besides played by journalist-journalist Yanin Sokolov, known for unpleasant, hard questions and embarrassment of public figures. "Klimenko's Time" he called Sokolov's main propagandaist erstwhile president Petr Poroshenko.
What brings Ukrainian Patients together, organizations of 100% Life and the run of Yanina Sokolová is the fact that they are all supported by the Ukrainian Foundation of the global Rebirth of the American Financial Oligarchy George Soros, convicted of insider dealing.
The fund founded by George Soros, who operates in Ukraine, besides oversees a peculiar public wellness programme. It is within this framework that all these activists and their campaigns for cannabis receive funding. According to the 2019 Soros Foundation report, 23.85 percent of 335 million hryvnia destined for Ukraine were spent on a public wellness programme. It is almost 80 million hryvnia (more than 2 million euro), writes Klymenko Time.
The Ukrainian curators of the program are Victoria Timosevska and Olena Kucheruk from the Soros Foundation. Timosevska lobbied for legalizing marijuana and appropriate bill in 2016. Kucheruk began working in the Eastern-West Partnership program without borders, 1 of Soros's first projects in Ukraine. At the beginning of 2000, office staff applied for a European call for proposals for the Drugs simplification Programme.
Soros is known as 1 of the world's largest supporters of the legalization of marijuana and the relaxation of regulations against hard drugs. He said he spent at least $80 million in the United States for efforts to legalize marijuana.
At a time erstwhile he supported countless non-governmental organizations around the planet that fought to legalize marijuana, George Soros besides became 1 of the most crucial shareholders of the American global chemical, agricultural and biotechnology company Monsanto (Monsanto merged with German Bayer AG in 2018).
Monsanto had been increasing corn and soya in Uruguay for years, but the company besides actively conducted investigation on THC, an active compound contained in marijuana. Incidentally, Soros is besides credited with helping distribute genetically modified food in Uruguay, as well as pushing for the legalization of marijuana in this South American country.
The organization he generously funded, the Drug Policy Alliance, besides played a key function in the legalization of marijuana. In his 2013 yearly report, president of the Drug Policy Alliance praised: "In Uruguay we played a key function due to the fact that we helped coordinate the public education campaign. We worked closely with state officials, activists, journalists and others, including president José Mujica, whom I met personally.
In fact, the president of the country met privately with Soros in fresh York shortly before his return to the country and persuaded the legislature to legalize the drug, making him the first country of South America to do so. Soros-supported organizations reportedly allocated millions to an advertising run that continued across the country to influence public opinion and encourage it to support pro-conoptive legislation.
All of this was in opposition to the public, with 58 to 66 percent of Uruguayans opposed legalising the sale of marijuanaWhile only 24 to 29 percent supported legalization.
The marijuana manufacture has developed rapidly in fresh years, creating an manufacture worth billions of dollars. 2 investigation companies, Arcview marketplace investigation and BDS Analytics, estimated that global gross from the cannabis manufacture could emergence from $6.9 billion in 2017 to $16.9 billion in 2019 and over $31 billion in 2022. another analysts, specified as Cowen Inc., estimation that through legalization the global manufacture can accomplish sales of over $50 billion by 2026.
At the same time, the Ukrainian news portal Klymenko Time pointed out that hemp companies request fresh markets for further development, for which Ukraine would be a good opportunity.
Ukrainians are besides looking at Canadian and American companies. However, as they said, "In our blacklands, you could grow quite a few hemp that could easy be exported as natural material. And the added value would be obtained by processing in another countries".
Soros saw Ukrainians as cannon meat already in the 1990s
Soros has a long and deep past in Ukraine that goes far beyond the legalization of marijuana. Billionaire and financier, frequently portrayed as a humanist, promoted a tough geopolitical strategy in his 1993 article entitled "Towards a fresh planet Order: The Future of NATO" (Towards the fresh planet Order: The Future of NATO). The article outlines how east Europeans can be utilized as "working forces" in upcoming conflicts in order to reduce the number of deaths in Western countries, which, as Soros claims, the West would not tolerate politically, unlike the East of Europe.
"The United States would not be called to act as a planet policeman. erstwhile it works, it works in conjunction with others. Incidentally, combining the east European workforce with NATO's method capabilities would considerably increase the military possible of the Partnership as it would reduce the hazard of dead bags being created for NATO countries, which is the main limitation of their readiness to act. This is simply a real alternate to the impending planet chaos," Soros wrote in an article.
Soros admits that NATO countries have no appetite for "body bags", but his message indirectly indicates that east Europeans can do this role.
What Soros described seems to make precisely as he predicted in relation to the war in Ukraine. Armed with high-class NATO weapons, Ukrainian soldiers are tasked with actively opposing Russia, which Soros feared would become a nationalist country opposed to the global order he promoted in 1993. The fact that Soros has already seen the possible of what this symbiotic match can produce on the battlefield decades earlier will most likely strengthen his reputation as a calculating – and possibly ruthless – strategical thinker.
According to Soros' predictions, Ukrainian society seems to tolerate a advanced number of fatalities in the current conflict with Russia. During the Vietnam War, the United States lost 58,220 troops in about 10 years, yet the war faced strong opposition from American public opinion. Despite a much higher number of fatalities in a much shorter time, Ukrainian society saw small in terms of protests.
The deficiency of protests in Ukraine can besides be contributed by the fact that Ukraine suspended the majority of civilian society, banned opposition parties and the media, cancelled all elections, and even banned the Russian Orthodox Church. Another key origin influencing the position of society against the conflict is the fact that the war is taking place in the territory of Ukraine, which is simply a powerfully motivating origin for Ukrainian soldiers.
The drugs marketplace in Ukraine is increasing at an extraordinary rate
The modern war gives birth to drug addicts, and in Ukraine the usage of drugs on the front line is common and growing.
Ukrainian recruiters usually take active or erstwhile drug addicts into the army who are called into the military without appropriate medical examinations and in many cases have no problem keeping their addiction on the frontlines, where drug trafficking is simply a large business.
Many soldiers serving on the front usage drugs as a means of escape, while others usage them to relax after sleepless nights spent under continuous artillery fire.
Others are just bored. any people usage drugs to stay alert due to the fact that they are almost constantly on edge and in life-threatening situations. The front line has become a lucrative marketplace for drug traffickers.
In many respects Ukraine is becoming a drug fair under the open air, where drugs are sold in the country and on the front. As always, fewer benefit from this improvement while many proceed to suffer.
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