Spain’s cannabis clubs are appealing for many foreign residents and tourists, but there are many misconceptions about them. Are they really legal? How do you find and join them? Here’s everything you need to know about cannabis clubs in Spain.
The growers of a marijuana plantation on the rooftop of an apartment in Catalonia have been rumbled after viewers spotted the greenery in aerial footage of Spain’s Vuelta cycling race.
Spanish police said Sunday they had dismantled an international hashish trafficking ring which allegedly used industrial warehouses that had been repossessed by banks to grow huge amounts of marijuana.
Spanish police have seized 300 kilos of marijuana and more than 30,000 examples of fake designer underwear following a raid in the Valencian autonomous community.
Spanish police have arrested four Britons who cultivated cannabis in greenhouses in southern Spain sending out packages of the drug to the UK and Ireland via Spain’s postal service.
Authorities in Spain closed down a cannabis club in Barcelona that sold marijuana candy and other similar products to more than 16,000 people, many of them tourists, police said on Tuesday.
Spain’s National Police have raided a huge marijuana plantation which they believe was run by an organized crime ring in a town near Seville, after locals tipped them off about the operation.
Spanish police have uncovered hundreds of marijuana plants in a disused hotel on the Mediterranean coast and arrested four people as part of the operation, they said Thursday.
Police in a Catalan town are complaining that they are "feeling the effects of smoking something illegal" due to the huge amounts of confiscated weed stored in the station.
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 precedent for smoking collectives in the future.
Drug traffickers tried to set fire to their own ship to get rid of tonnes of hashish on board after being intercepted by a Spanish navy ship, the Spanish government said on Tuesday.
Eight people were taken to hospital in Oviedo, in the north of Spain, on Saturday after a birthday party guest served a chocolate cake which had been baked by his mother using marijuana butter.
The Spanish region of Catalonia is finalizing plans to legalize medical marijuana, a move authorities say will not only aid patients but also help the region to crack down on its booming cannabis club scene.
City authorities ordered the closure of 49 cannabis clubs in Barcelona on Wednesday, the latest move to tighten a legal loophole that has given the city a global reputation as a 'pothead's paradise'.
Barcelona city council announced on Friday that no new cannabis clubs will be allowed to open in the city for one year in order to halt their proliferation and allow for tighter regulation of the 160 clubs that already exist.
Spain is still top of the European Union table for both cocaine and cannabis consumption among young people, official EU figures released on Tuesday show. The Local spoke to the director of Spain's Foundation against Drug Addiction to find out more.
Spanish police have arrested 42 people for selling and trafficking a highly addictive and dangerous form of methamphetamine known on the street as shabu.
The number of so-called 'cannabis clubs' in Barcelona has exploded in recent years but some are worried a lack of clear rules about how they operate could have a negative impact on the city.
Two city councillors from the northern Spanish city of León have been expelled from the country's ruling Popular Party after being arrested for allegedly trafficking a kilo of marijuana.
