Cannabis is set to be made Legal in Spain for medicinal purposes – but not everyone is happy with the new law February 16, 2024 AggregatedNews Spain 0 Comments The Ministry of Health has kickstarted the process of passing a new law that will approve the use of cannabis as treatment for a range of conditions. According to reports in Spanish press, the new law is in the ‘dialogue… Read More→
Spain’s confusing cannabis policies spark similar problems faced by U.S. states November 12, 2023 AggregatedNews Black Market, Spain 0 Comments Legal confusion over the drug’s status in regions like Catalonia and open European borders are allowing the illicit market to flourish. BARCELONA — The cannabis cafe in Barcelona’s hip El Poblenou neighborhood could easily be a coffee shop in Brooklyn… Read More→
Daily Blackouts Strain a Poor Spanish Neighborhood. Is Marijuana to Blame? September 4, 2023 AggregatedNews Spain 0 Comments Spain’s largest electricity company says daily power outages are caused by illegal indoor marijuana farms that overload the grid. “Easy excuse,” residents reply. On a recent morning, Ángel Ortiz Rodríguez was slumped on a sofa in his apartment in Granada,… Read More→
Catalonia cracks down on booming marijuana industry June 28, 2023 AggregatedNews Black Market, Spain 0 Comments BARCELONA, June 28 (Reuters) - Heavily-armed police officers arrived in a well-to-do Barcelona suburb before dawn to raid a two-storey house that turned out to be packed with 800 marijuana plants growing under powerful lamps. The recent raid, on which… Read More→
Spain Misses Ambitious Medical Cannabis Roll Out Targets As Government Remains Tight-Lipped On Progress January 11, 2023 Ben Stevens Spain 0 Comments SPAIN’s ambitious plans to see the regulation and distribution of medical cannabis rolled out across the country by the end of 2022 appear to have been delayed. December 27, 2022 marked the deadline for the Spanish Agency for Medicines and… Read More→
Spanish Government To Vote On Proposals For Medical Cannabis Legalisation This Month, Marking ‘First Baby Steps’ Towards Full Market June 9, 2022 Ben Stevens Spain 0 Comments THE SPANISH Government is set to make its final vote on proposals regarding the legalisation of medical cannabis in three weeks time. If approved and implemented, this could see a major shift in what has been referred to by industry… Read More→
Spanish Parliament To Investigate Potential Of National Medical Cannabis Programme May 15, 2021 Peter McCusker Spain 0 Comments A GROUND-BREAKING vote by a committee of the Spanish Parliament has led to the creation of a working group to look into the benefits of medical cannabis. One of its stated aims is to examine the legal basis and scientific… Read More→
Could Catalonia’s growing marijuana market lead to a ‘narco-economy’? September 7, 2020 AggregatedNews Spain 0 Comments “This will never be Mexico,” concedes a Spanish police source, speaking about the violence linked to the drug trade. But this same officer warns about the dangers of widespread cannabis cultivation in Spain, particularly in Catalonia, the region with the… Read More→