25 Sep, 2016 @ 14:22
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Cannabis clubs continue to grow in northern Spain

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Weed festivalTHEY’RE growing like weeds.

An incredible 268 members-only marijuana cafés have set up in Barcelona, new figures show,

Some 200,000 people are now believed to be members of these so-called ‘cannabis clubs’, which operate in a grey area of the law.

The clubs function as nonprofit associations where members pay a small annual fee and pool money to fund the operation, meaning there is technically no selling or buying involved.

This means consumption is private as long as the drug stays on the premises, making it legal as private consumption is not penalised.

A current initiative in the Catalan parliament is aiming to allow club members to legally grow and share their own weed among themselves.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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