Items tagged with spain
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Drug Decriminalisation Across the World [31.12.2030] | The criminalisation of people who use drugs compounds drug-related challenges and worsens health and welfare outcomes. Across the world, there is a g ... |
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 ... |
The green wave hits Europe: Recent cannabis regulation initiatives in Europe [15.03.2022] | |
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 ... |
These are the countries most likely to legalize weed next [17.04.2019] | In October 2018, Canada became the second country after Uruguay—and the first G7 nation—to legalize the recreational use of cannabis. Led by Prime Mi ... |
Street cannabis 'contains dangerous amount of faecal matter' [04.04.2019] | Cannabis resin sold on the streets of Madrid is contaminated with dangerous levels of faecal matter, a study says. Traces of E.coli bacteria and the ... |
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 ... |
How 'fixing rooms' are saving the lives of drug addicts [21.11.2018] | All over Europe, every day, many thousands of people will inject heroin in drug consumption rooms. But none of these will be in the UK, where drug ad ... |
Barcelona police launch massive crackdown on narcopisos [29.10.2018] | Hundreds of police backed by a helicopter raided dozens of apartments in central Barcelona used for selling and consuming heroin and other drugs, mak ... |
Why some U.S. allies didn’t sign up for Trump’s pledge to fight drugs [24.09.2018] | President Trump began his week at the UN General Assembly with an event seeking to prompt action against the global drug trade. “The call is simple,” ... |
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 ... |
Medicinal cannabis policies and practices around the world [24.04.2018] | Although cannabis remains a prohibited substance worldwide, in recent decades a series of political, legislative and judicial processes in various pa ... |
Narcopisos: Spain's 'drug flats' give focus for fight against heroin threat [12.03.2018] | Empty properties in El Raval (Barcelona), many of which are owned by banks and investment funds following Spain’s property crash, serve as distributi ... |
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 ... |
Is Spain becoming Europe's cannabis garden? [12.06.2017] | Cannabis production in Spain has grown significantly in recent years with more than 300,000 plants seized in 2015. Marijuana labs are believed to be ... |
Acquittal in Spanish coca leaf legal case [23.03.2017] | BARCELONA - Yesterday the unprecedented resolution of a court case for the importation of coca leaf powder (also known as mambe) took place at the Pr ... |
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 ... |
A Quiet Revolution [14.03.2016] | This is the second edition of ‘A Quiet Revolution: Drug Decriminalisation Across the Globe’. The first edition was released in July 2012 and has sinc ... |
France has highest (number of) teen cannabis smokers [14.03.2016] | France and Canada have the highest percentage of 15-year-old cannabis smokers among 42 well-off nations surveyed by the World Health Organization. Wh ... |
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 ... |
Majority of Spaniards oppose new "gag law" [06.07.2015] | Three quarters of Spaniards oppose the country's new "gag law", which has brought in a series of measures opponents say hark back to the dark days of ... |
Drug users should be able to get heroin from the health system [13.04.2015] | No fewer than six randomised controlled trials – in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Canada, and England – concluded that heroin assiste ... |
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 ... |
One in two Spaniards want legal marijuana [10.12.2014] | A total of 52 percent of Spaniards are in favour of legalizing the sale and private consumption of cannabis for adults despite a general toughening o ... |
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 ... |
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