Items tagged with cannabis clubs and spain
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| Barcelona city council threatens to shut down cannabis social clubs [04.01.2024] | The Barcelona City Council is considering tightening regulations on access to cannabis social clubs. The concept of cannabis social clubs has drawn n ... |
| Spain’s confusing cannabis policies spark similar problems faced by US states [12.11.2023] | “For some years, there was the possibility to regulate and keep it in the hands of those who aren’t crime-related,” said Óscar Parés, deputy director ... |
| After Malta, Germany set to make pot mainstream [02.12.2021] | The European Union is currently a hotchpotch of different approaches to cannabis use, ranging from complete prohibition to different levels of decrim ... |
| Barcelona cannabis clubs face closure in new legal setback [27.07.2021] | Barcelona’s 200 cannabis clubs face closure after the supreme court shut a legal loophole that has seen the city become Spain’s marijuana capital. It ... |
| Spain’s cannabis patients in lockdown lockhold [08.04.2020] | Thousands of patients who use cannabis for medicinal reasons no longer have access to this remedy. During Spain’s lockdown to combat the Covid-19 pan ... |
| Cannabis regulation and local authorities in Europe [31.03.2019] | Local and regional authorities across Europe are confronted with the negative consequences of a persisting illicit cannabis market. Increasingly, loc ... |
| Cannabis in the City [01.03.2019] | Lately, there have been clear signs of a shift in governments’ approaches to recreational cannabis. Uruguay in 2013 and Canada in 2018 – as well as a ... |
| New government in Spain: An opportunity for cannabis legalization? [10.08.2018] | On June 1, Pedro Sanchez became Spain’s first president to be elected through a no-confidence motion. A few days after the Popular Party was condemne ... |
| Better to Ask Forgiveness Than Permission [15.06.2018] | In recent years, the international debate on drug policy reform has intensified, and with it has come a productive exchange of information between ac ... |
| "New Amsterdam" no more? Spain's cannabis clubs fight to stay open [08.06.2018] | Spain's cannabis social club (CSC) model might make the country appear to be a marijuana mecca, but what the tourist never sees are the legal and fin ... |
| The end of cannabis tolerance in Spain [02.01.2018] | After decades of relative tolerance towards Cannabis in Spain, the Constitutional Court decides that cannabis clubs are criminal. Years of government ... |
| GEPCA: In Spain, experts are presenting their proposal for regulating cannabis [26.07.2017] | In Spain, a group of drugs experts have established the GEPCA, a body which seeks to set up a comprehensive regulation for cannabis. This model alrea ... |
| Cannabis legislation in Europe [15.03.2017] | At a time of increased debate on the laws controlling the use of cannabis in the European Union, this report answers some of the questions most often ... |
| Can the government impede cannabis regulation in Spain? [17.02.2017] | Is cannabis regulation possible with a prohibitionist government in Spain? Cooperation between various forces in Congress, changes in public attitude ... |
| Regulating Cannabis Social Clubs [15.02.2017] | Cannabis Social Clubs (CSCs) are a model of non-profit production and distribution of cannabis among a closed circuit of adult cannabis users. CSCs a ... |
| A new era for cannabis clubs in Spain [13.01.2017] | Following the Supreme Court's judgements against cannabis clubs in 2015, ordinary courts have started interpreting them. Spain's major clubs, above a ... |
| Harsh sentences against the Pannagh cannabis club [30.12.2015] | The Spanish Supreme Court has convicted the president, an administrator and two members of the Association of Cannabis Users "Pannagh" in Bilbao, for ... |
| Exploring the Cannabis Clubs of southern Spain, Europe's new weed destination [24.08.2015] | Over the last five years, Spain has come to rival the Netherlands as Europe's cannabis hub. The country's legal framework around weed, which allows i ... |
| High Court ruling deals blow to cannabis clubs [09.07.2015] | Spain's highest court has declared a cannabis club in Bilbao in violation of public health - the court’s first ruling on such clubs - which could set ... |
| The Legal Landscape for Cannabis Social Clubs in Spain [14.02.2015] | This briefing is a preliminary sketch of the legal landscape for cannabis social clubs in Spain. Its author is presently conducting legal analysis an ... |
| Legislation passed to formally regulate Catalonia's cannabis clubs for first time [03.02.2015] | The Catalonian government in Spain has passed a new set of guidelines to formally regulate cannabis social clubs (CSCs) for the first time in the aut ... |
| Cannabis policy reform in Europe [27.12.2014] | While in the Americas cannabis policy reform is taking off, Europe seems to be lagging behind. That is to say, in European nations at the level of na ... |
| Reform der Cannabispolitik in Europa [27.12.2014] | Während die Reform der Cannabispolitik in Amerika Fahrt aufnimmt, scheint Europa hinterherzuhinken. Genauer gesagt, die europäischen Staaten auf nati ... |
| Du Río de la Plata au Lac Léman [19.11.2014] | La politique vis-à-vis du cannabis est en rapide évolution. Ainsi, les citoyens de l'Alaska et de l'Oregon, comme ceux de Washington DC, la capitale ... |
| Barcelona to lift cannabis club age limit to 21 [02.11.2014] | Cannabis clubs in Catalonia will face stricter regulations with the region's parliamentary health commission set to raise the minimum age for members ... |
| Catalonia set to legalize medical marijuana [27.08.2014] | Catalonia is drawing up rules to allow the use of marijuana for the treatment of patients suffering from conditions with symptoms such as pain and lo ... |
| Barcelona shuts down 49 cannabis clubs [13.08.2014] | Authorities accused the clubs selling cannabis illegally and attempting to lure tourists to their premises. The Catalan federation of cannabis associ ... |
| Catalan cannabis club chiefs held for money laundering [11.07.2014] | The heads of Fedcac, an umbrella group for Catalonia’s cannabis clubs, have been arrested on charges of money laundering. The vast amounts of money m ... |
| Marijuana clubs rise out of decades-old Spanish laws [09.07.2014] | The number of cannabis clubs that have opened in Barcelona recently has some experts saying this city will soon challenge Amsterdam as the go-to dest ... |
| Barcelona bans new cannabis clubs for 1 year [12.06.2014] | The Barcelona city council announced that no new cannabis clubs will be allowed to open in the city for one year in order to halt their proliferation ... |
| Barcelona is fighting an overdose of cannabis clubs [12.06.2014] | Barcelona has a new tourist attraction that some locals wish would disappear: a burgeoning number of "cannabis clubs," where people can legally buy a ... |
| First cannabis club shut down in Catalonia for drug trafficking [10.06.2014] | Growing numbers of visitors are purchasing a few grams of marijuana while on holiday in Barcelona, a city that is already being described as the "Hol ... |
| Going to pot: legalised cannabis edges nearer in west after US states end ban [22.05.2014] | Legalisation of cannabis is making slow but unstoppable progress across much of the developed world, many experts believe, following the end of prohi ... |
| Cannabis regulation: high time for change? [20.05.2014] | Cannabis is the world’s most widely used illicit drug. But for how much longer? In a short space of time we have moved from absolute global prohibiti ... |
| The Rise and Decline of Cannabis Prohibition [10.03.2014] | The cannabis plant has been used for spiritual, medicinal and recreational purposes since the early days of civilization. In this report the Transnat ... |
| A step back in Spanish drug policies [18.12.2013] | In the past few weeks, the attention of the international drug policy community has been focused on the cannabis regulation bill in Uruguay. The grea ... |
| Multinational overview of cannabis production regimes [14.12.2013] | The vast majority of countries are signatories to international treaties that prohibit the production, distribution and possession of cannabis for no ... |
| How to Regulate Cannabis [30.11.2013] | This is a guide to regulating legal markets for the non-medical use of cannabis. It is for policy makers, drug policy reform advocates and affected c ... |
| Support Pannagh [24.11.2013] | Pannagh, one of the oldest cannabis social clubs in Spain, is being persecuted by the Spanish prosecutor. Two years after the precautionary closure o ... |
| Models for the legal supply of cannabis [27.05.2013] | Three United Nations Conventions provide the international legal framework on drug control, instructing countries to limit drug supply and use to med ... |
| In Spain's Canaries, cannabis club thrives discreetly [18.04.2013] | Spanish law prohibits the possession of soft drugs like cannabis in public and its growth to be sold for profit is illegal. But the law does tolerate ... |
| The present continuous of cannabis clubs in Catalonia [29.03.2013] | The exponential proliferation of the number of associations, clubs and other groups that distribute cannabis among their members and create new space ... |
| Can marijuana beat the Mafia? Some French say make it legal [11.01.2013] | France offers the most recent sign of changing attitudes. While consumption and production of pot for personal use are not criminal offenses in Franc ... |
| Latin America looks to Europe for drug fighting models [17.11.2012] | Latin American countries are turning to Europe for lessons on fighting drugs after souring on the prohibition-style approach of the violent and costl ... |
| Between collective organisation and commercialisation [08.08.2012] | The last few years have witnessed a boom in new cannabis user associations in Spain. Although there are no reliable figures for them, most are known ... |
| Cannabis reaches parliament [25.06.2012] | On 19 June, 2012, the Ganjazz Art Club in Donostia, one of the oldest Cannabis Social Clubs in Spain, received a visit that was unimaginable a few ye ... |
| Spanish village votes for 'grass roots plan' [09.04.2012] | The Spanish village of Rasquera has adopted in a referendum a plan to rent out a field for growing cannabis in an urgent bid to create jobs and raise ... |
| Spanish town wants to grow cannabis to pay off debt [06.03.2012] | A small town in northeastern Spain, believes it has found a novel way to pay of its debt: cultivating cannabis. Tucked in the hills of one of Spain's ... |
| Spanish town of Rasquera leases land for marijuana plantation [01.03.2012] | A tiny Spanish country town believes it has found a way to make unemployment, debt and economic crisis disappear in a puff of smoke – by leasing out ... |
| Spanish village to raise funds with marijuana [29.02.2012] | A tiny Spanish village has voted to lease land for growing marijuana as a source of desperately needed revenue — a unique but legally questionable wa ... |
| Legal cannabis in Basque Country? [16.12.2011] | Health officials of the Basque Country, an autonomous region of Spain, announced that they will introduce a bill to regulate the "cultivation, sale a ... |
| Basque government regulates cannabis sale and use [12.12.2011] | The Basque Parliament will approve a law bill in the first few months of 2012 on drug addiction, which will regulate "the growing, sale and consumpti ... |
| Extraordinary General Assembly of Cannabis Users Association Pannagh [19.11.2011] | The General Assembly of Cannabis Users Association Pannagh denounces the disproportionate intervention of the Municipal Police of Bilbao against the ... |
| Cannabis social club activists in Spain liberated [18.11.2011] | Martin Barriuso, the president of of Pannagh and the Federation of Cannabis Associations (FAC) in Spain and two fellow activists from the Pannagh can ... |
| Immediate release for Martin Barriuso and his two fellow activists [16.11.2011] | Martin Barriuso, the president of of Pannagh and the Federation of Cannabis Associations (FAC) in Spain and two fellow activist from Pannagh have bee ... |
| Drug club: Spain’s alternative cannabis economy [01.07.2011] | While public opinion seems to be shifting towards support for legalisation; there is surprisingly little discussion in the drugs counter-culture of w ... |
| Cannabis social clubs in Spain [24.01.2011] | Cannabis social clubs (CSC) are noncommercial organisations of users who get together to cultivate and distribute enough cannabis to meet their perso ... |
| Cannabis Social Clubs en Espagne [01.01.2011] | Les Clubs Sociaux du Cannabis (CSC) sont des associations d’usagers qui s’organisent pour s’auto-approvisionner sans avoir recours au marché noir. Pr ... |
| Cannabis clubs plug a gap in Spanish drugs laws [28.12.2010] | Private cannabis clubs are at the vanguard of a new movement of pro-cannabis campaigners in Spain. The members spotted a gap in Spain's drugs laws wh ... |
| Marijuana Legalization [30.06.2010] | A number of other countries have implemented changes in law that significantly reduce the extent of criminalization of marijuana use. Only in Austral ... |
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