Indopedia All Things Marijuana
The scene outside Spannabis, a massive European cannabis expo lighting up Barcelona since 2002, looked like your average weed fest — at first.
Smoke hung heavy in the spring air. Cacophonous waves of reggae blared from every direction. Closed circuit ciphers of backpack trappers, super stoners, and cannabiz bros from all over the world compared indoor flower out of mylar baggies around tiny circular tables.
As a veteran reporter of the cannabis event circuit, I felt oddly at home in the infinite sea of white person dreadlocks and inflatable RAW joints flying overhead periodically.
Even the ubiquitous weed fest characters proved international. There was the dude with a leaf blower rigged as a weed smoke firehose, the girls wearing electric g-strings made from light-up weed leaves, and even a megaphone guy standing on a chair, throwing vape batteries into the crowd.
However, once inside the pyramid-shaped glass building labeled SPANNABIS, the sheer density and scope of the event stunned me into a stoned cold realization.
The term weed world no longer refers only to California and a sparse constellation of forward-thinking places. Now, the weed…
