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Spain Needs To Take Its Rightful Place As A Global Cannabis Leader

Written by Johnny Green on January 12, 2022. Posted in Politics.

Spain, particularly Barcelona, has been home to a vibrant cannabis community for many years. Cannabis is very easy to acquire throughout most of Spain where roughly 1 out of every 10 adults consumes cannabis annually, and it’s no secret that Spain has long served as the top destination for...

Organizing For National Cannabis Reform: A New Spanish Advocacy Group Gets Going

Written by Marguerite Arnold on December 22, 2021. Posted in Politics.

The Cannabis Industry Guild (or GIC) has just been formed to create an advocacy group for the nascent industry across the country In yet more of a sign of how large the ripple effect of the German announcement to move forward on recreational cannabis has been in Europe, a group of Spanish entrepreneurs...

Spanish Agricultural Cannabis Redevelopment Project In Suspense

Written by Marguerite Arnold on July 7, 2021. Posted in Medical.

A large roses to cannabis production facility in Garrray Spain, Europe’s largest greenhouse of red roses, now sits empty as AEMPS delays on granting medical cannabis authorization. Once upon a time, in a town called Garray, about 9 kilometres from Soria, on the banks of the Douro River sat...

Spanish Government Moves To Formally Consider Medical Efficacy Of Cannabis

Written by Marguerite Arnold on May 19, 2021. Posted in Medical.

Last week, the Spanish Congressional Health and Consumer Affairs Commission Committee met to consider exploring the medical efficacy of cannabis. Will this finally move the needle on some type of formal, final Spanish reform? It is odd looking at the developments in Spain with an American perspective...

First Cannabis Patient Makes Bid For Home Grow In Spain

Written by Marguerite Arnold on May 5, 2021. Posted in Medical.

A 49-year-old male patient has made his application for medical home grow to the Spanish Medicines Agency public Juan Manuel Rodriguez, a Gen X Spanish citizen, has just made his application for a cannabis home grow license to the Spanish Medicines Agency public. Rodriquez has been confined to a...

Is Spain On The Verge Of Regulating Cannabis Clubs?

Written by Marguerite Arnold on April 7, 2021. Posted in Business.

As a monumental challenge to the current law loses in Strasbourg, organizers including political parties are challenging the government to regulate the sector (as well as fully legalize it). Things are continuing to bubble in Spain over the regulation (and by definition legalization) of the entire...

Basque Region Cannabis Clubs Throw Down Gauntlet To Reopen

Written by Marguerite Arnold on March 10, 2021. Posted in Business.

After being devastated by Pandemic shutdowns, clubs in the Basque region of Spain petition their government to let them reopen for business. Basque region cannabis clubs have now petitioned their government to let them begin to plan for re-opening. The Federation of Cannabis User Associations of...

Spanish Government Continues To Fund Medical Cannabis Research Even As It Has Jailed Club Activist

Written by Marguerite Arnold on February 16, 2021. Posted in Science.

Despite the red tape and the imprisonment of Albert Tio the Spanish government is funding some medical cannabis research Some good news from Spain on the cannabis front at last! As reported by Público, a Spanish-language public affairs and news zine, the Botanical Institute of Barcelona which...

Ole! The Spanish Supreme Court Takes Aim At Barcelona’s Cannabis Clubs

Written by Marguerite Arnold on January 27, 2021. Posted in Business.

The Spanish Constitutional Court has issued two rulings against the Barcelona club scene – but with a pending case in the EU’s highest court, does this really matter? As 2021 dawns with sputtering hope of a revival of society, if not economies globally, it appears that authorities in...

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