The Consistory of Barcelona he ordered the closure administrative of different Cannabis Social Club, banning him from promoting and dispensing cannabis.
The Spanish head El País he explained that the measures, initiated for around 80 of the 200 clubs that cover the Catalan capital, happen the 2020 ruling issued by the Supreme Court of Justice of Catalonia which has repealed the municipal regulation that governed these premises.
In the closure requests, it is underlined that they must limit themselves to "providing information, preparing or disseminating studies, making proposals, expressing opinions on the topic, promoting meetings or seminars" of the activity established in their statutes. And that "is not allowed the promotion of the consumption, cultivation, distribution of cannabis" or any behavior that may constitute an administrative or criminal offence.
Barcelona: Cannabis Social Clubs at risk of closure
The risk of closure and the pressing threat of withdraw the licenses it will certainly deal a serious blow to the positive trend of cannabis tourism in the whole of Spain.
I Cannabis Social Club in fact "established to defend consumer rights" are a significant part of theSpanish economy, for the millions of tourists who flock every year to consume - in peace - your cannabis.
However, the Federation of Cannabis Associations of Catalonia (CatFAC) confirmed to the newspaper that the closure orders for collective consumption within clubs can only be due to aincorrect interpretation by the technical services of some districts, which carry out inspections together with the Urban Guard.
As does CatFAC, who along with those affected by the closure, insist that the ruling of Supreme Court of Justice of Catalonia it doesn't concern the specific activity of a cannabis association, but only the invasion of state competences.
