Comprehensive list of publications, TV stations, YouTube channels, international organisations, official legal documents and sources that covered the medical cannabis case in Romania — the Giancarlo Cristea vs. DIICOT case file (2024–2026), the Victoria Law and the national precedent. Includes IGPF, DGPV documents, court decisions and UK activism sources from 2018.
0 sources6 categoriesRO + UK + UE2018–2026
2015–2019UK Activism
2022Victoria Law filed
2023Press discovers the case
Sept 2024DIICOT confiscates
Mar 2025Victory #1
May–Jul 2025Law rejected
Oct 2025Victory #2 Restitution
28 Jan 2026Victory #3 Final
Feb 2026Aftermath & context
Visual Documentary — 2018–2026
Protest at Westminster · Radio Guerrilla · Romanian Parliament · Court proceedings
Westminster · London · 2018–2019
23 Feb 2018Civil Defiance — Palace of Westminster
10 Oct 2018Civil Defiance · With MP Paul Flynn
2018Face to face with the law
2018„Patients NOT Criminals"
2019„I Owe My Life" — Westminster
22 Mai 2019House of Lords — Drug Science · UK
Mai 2019Official invitation — House of Lords · Drug Science
2018Paul Flynn MP — Standing with patients
Radio Guerrilla · Romanian Parliament · 2023
Iulie 2023Radio Guerrilla — before the Health Committee
27 Martie 2023Liviu Mihaiu · Giancarlo Cristea · Radio Guerrilla
Martie 2023Press conference · Romanian Parliament · Emanuel Ungureanu
Video & Audio · Paul Flynn MP + Radio Guerrilla
Video — Paul Flynn MP · Call for Civil Disobedience · Westminster 2018
This page brings together eight years of public advocacy — from Westminster (2018) to the Romanian Parliament (2023–2025), from investigative press to national television, from the DIICOT criminal case to the definitive Court of Appeal ruling (2026). Each source documents a moment when one patient's private suffering became public institutional accountability. Materials are organised chronologically and by category: UK activism, parliamentary debates, tribunal and restitution, national and international press.
Paul Flynn MP (Labour, Newport West) — Call for Civil Disobedience · Westminster · 2018. A few months later, medical cannabis was legalised in the UK.
“The Third Way” with Liviu Mihaiu · Radio Guerrilla · March 27, 2023
Giancarlo Cristea on the right to medical cannabis
Interactive transcript (43:07)
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“The Third Way” with Liviu Mihaiu — Radio Guerrilla. Interview about the right to medical cannabis and the hearing at the Parliamentary Health Committee. March 27, 2023.
Tribunal & Restitution · 2025–2026
Video — DIICOT Forced to Return the Medication · 2025
Media report: DIICOT forced to return the medication based on the court's decision. Direct result of the first judicial victory.
Video — PROTV: The Tribunal Decided · October 2025
PROTV report: The Tribunal ruled that DIICOT prosecutors must return the confiscated medications. Official confirmation of the first judicial victory.
Video — Tribunal Orders DIICOT to Return Medical Cannabis
The Tribunal orders DIICOT to return medical cannabis prescribed to a couple. Landmark decision in Romanian legal history.
Parliament & Health Committee · 2023–2025
Video — Giancarlo Cristea · Health Committee Testimony · 2023
Giancarlo Cristea — Testimony before the Romanian Parliament Health Committee. March 2023. On the patient's right to medical cannabis.
Video — Medical Cannabis: A Right for Chronic Patients in Romania
Parliamentary conference: Medical cannabis should be a right for chronic patients in Romania.
Video — Euronews: Health Committee · February 2025
Euronews Romania — Health Committee debates medical cannabis legalisation. February 2025.
TVR 1 — Interview · Medical Cannabis
Video — TVR 1: Medical Cannabis Interview
TVR 1 — Interview about the medical cannabis situation in Romania. Full case context and legal implications.
Kanal D News — Report · Medical Cannabis Blocked in Parliament
Video — Kanal D News: Medical Cannabis Blocked in Parliament · July 2026
Kanal D News, 23 July 2026 — The testimony of Giancarlo Cristea, a Crohn's patient since 2008: sourcing the treatment illegally in Romania, emigrating to the United Kingdom, and the appeal by MPs Eugen Teodorovici and Emanuel Ungureanu to take the medical cannabis bill out of the drawer. Subtitles EN/RO. Original article.
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TV reports, interviews and debates from national and international press
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Court orders DIICOT to return prescription cannabis to a couple
2024Victory #1
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Cannabis recovered after trial with DIICOT
2024Restitution
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Victoria Mea Association organises international debate on medical cannabis
2024Debate
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Court orders DIICOT to return prescription cannabis to couple — Shorts
Oct 2025ViralVictory #2
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Health Committee — Victoria Mea Law: Medical Cannabis in Romania
2023Parliament
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Full Interview Val Chiper: Medical cannabis — forms, CBD/THC, legal procedures
Oct 2025Interview 25 min
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Lawyer Raul Nicolae Bud on TVR — The Cristea vs. DIICOT case
2026TVRLegal Precedent
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Court orders DIICOT to return prescription cannabis to a couple
2024Victory #1
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Cannabis recovered after trial with DIICOT
2024Restitution
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Court orders DIICOT to return prescription cannabis to couple — Shorts
Oct 2025ViralVictory #2
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Victoria Mea Association organises international debate on medical cannabis
2024Debate
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Full Interview Val Chiper: Medical cannabis — forms, CBD/THC, legal procedures
Oct 2025Interview 25 min
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Lawyer Raul Nicolae Bud on TVR — The Cristea vs. DIICOT case
2026TVRLegal Precedent
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Health Committee — Victoria Mea Law: Medical Cannabis in Romania
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