Today we are continuing our discussion on Europe and its seemingly inevitable march towards the legalisation of cannabis. This week we’ll be focusing on Poland, Czechia, Denmark and Ireland.
This week in ISMOKE magazine we are be taking a look across the Channel to see what our European neighbours are up to with regard to cannabis law reform and future legalisation.
Spain
The Spanish constitutional courts have recently ruled that the 50-year-old unofficial policy of tolerance towards cannabis is in fact illegal. The country's main court has recently ruled that the regional parliaments don’t have the power to regulate Cannabis Social Clubs under the existing legal system and have hinted that the countries current relaxed attitudes towards cannabis consumption and social clubs may, in fact, be coming to an end.
Remedy is the Barcelona cannabis club that we interviewed last year for ISMOKE Magazine.
Located in the La Rambla area, we headed to Remedy Barcelona to check it out for ourselves when we travelled to Spain for Spannabis earlier this month.
Since we interviewed The Remedy club for ISMOKE, a lot has changed. They are now offering 40 cannabis strains (at the time we attended), plus extracts and other forms of cannabis (edibles, vape carts etc).
Last weekend ISMOKE travelled to Spain for Spannabis 2017 in Barcelona.
Hailed as the world’s largest Cannabis Expo, Spannabis was a chance for exhibitors and cannabis connoisseurs to come together over a weekend to show off their wares to the European cannabis market and to celebrate cannabis.
The city of Amsterdam is famous for its coffee shops and seed banks, and we have been heading over to The Netherlands for a sort of annual pilgrimage ever since we first visited when ISMOKE was a mere infant, back in 2010. Today on ISMOKE we will take you through our ISMOKE Top 5 Amsterdam Highlights 2016.
ISMOKE Amsterdam
The Amsterdam cannabis scene is often thought of as forward-thinking, with lots of options for tourists in the way of coffee shops and cannabis strains. But how forward-thinking is a system of decriminalisation / tolerance, where coffee shops are frequently shut down, and the people supplying them protected by the system without paying taxes?
We are in Barcelona for a round-up of the Summer Dab-a-Doo 2016, the hashish competition naturally born out of Mila Jansen’s 70th birthday bash in Amsterdam. Mila attends every Dab-a-Doo that takes place around the world (Amsterdam, Valencia, Rhode Island, London and the city of Santa Isabel in Uruguay) and, knowing the background of this event, Piff Advisor decided to go check this edition of the renown Hash Queen’s competition.
After hearing all about the Barcelona Cannabis Clubs Scene, it was about time we ventured to the famous Catalonian city to see what all the fuss was about.
Do You know about Barcelona Cannabis Clubs and how they operate?
Perception of cannabis worldwide is currently undergoing a massive shift. There are just too many good stories from across the globe to ignore and it is becoming increasingly difficult for media sources to try and push the old cannabis propaganda. Over the past week, we have seen (comparatively) positive cannabis features on both The Daily Mail and The Mirror asking whether legalisation may be the sensible way forward, and this shows just how much the media over here in the UK is beginning to shift.
As we continue our fight to legalise cannabis both for medicinal and recreational purposes in the UK, other countries are steaming ahead with the green industry. One country that has had a legal cannabis scene for a few years now is Spain, where cannabis social clubs are legally allowed to operate on a private member’s club basis.