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Spain: Barcelona weeds out 49 cannabis clubs

Jamaica Observer

Tuesday 12 Aug 2014

Authorities ordered the closure of 49 cannabis clubs in Barcelona on Wednesday, the latest move to curb a practice that has given the city a reputation as a smoker's paradise.

Barcelona City Hall ordered the closures after an inspection of 145 cannabis clubs found a number with "deficiencies in their functioning and problems of coexistence with neighbours", it said in a statement.

Authorities accused the clubs selling cannabis illegally and attempting to lure tourists to their premises.

Dealing in cannabis is illegal in Spain but the law does not prohibit growing it for private consumption. It also allows the existence of smokers' associations or cannabis clubs.

Club members pay an annual subscription fee plus a variable fee to cover the cost of producing the cannabis they consume.

A cannabis club is legal as long as it controls consumption and refrains from advertising and distributing the drug for profit.

Smokers' groups say some 700 such associations have sprung up in Spain due to a legal loophole.

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