Indopedia All Things Marijuana
The days of Catalonia’s cannabis clubs operating in a legal limbo are coming to an end, and for a good reason.
Today, the Catalonia Parliament in Spain, which operates as its own autonomous government, will be regulating the cultivation, consumption, and transport of adult-use cannabis. This ambitious and bold decision marks the first time in Europe that an adult-use system of this nature is permitted, effectively making cannabis a legal commodity in the region.
Three years in the making, the decision is finally receiving broad party support within the Catalan government.
In 2014, a resolution was passed asking government officials to create a series of regulations for cannabis clubs, but due to a lack of consensus among the working groups, the idea quickly lost momentum.
Then in 2015, a group known as La Rosa Verda collected more than 56,000 signatures, prompting the creation of a paper in Parliament with contributions from over 30 cannabis experts. These included psychologists, sociologists, pharmacologists, doctors and a host of others.
The results culminated into this historic move, where growing, consuming and transporting cannabis will no longer be scrutinized…
