Barcelona cannabis clubs face closure in new legal setback
Police and city authorities agree that ‘pioneering’ model has reduced street dealing and consumption
The Guardian (UK)
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
Tuesday, July 27, 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 is the latest in a series of setbacks for the asociaciónes, as they are popularly known. In 2017, the court overruled a law passed by the Catalan parliament which said “private consumption of cannabis by adults … is part of the exercise of the fundamental right to free personal development and freedom of conscience”. Since then the clubs have operated under a Barcelona city bylaw that regulated their use, but this too has now been overturned, with the judges ruling that the city authorities were not competent to legislate on matters governed by the state.
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