Marijuana

As far as i am aware it is legal for a Spanish person to have an amount of hashish for personal consumption, this includes growing up to 3 plants. It is not legal for a non-Spaniard. This is what I have been told on more than one occasion by both Spaniards and expats who have been here some time.

I'm surprised this question hasn't been asked before... About time! :D

acase may be right, but I can't verify that. I've heard similar notions about legally carrying a small amount for personal consumption. In practice you'll definitely see people on the streets carrying out their legal "personal consumption". It's not that difficult to come by either, and without the concerns for being framed by dealers and cops for bribe money like in, say, Thailand.

Viva Espa?a! ;)

~The Editor

Marijuana is decriminalized in Spain, and its marijuana policy is rather unique in that it encourages marijuana smokers to grow their own product. That is to say that it is meant for PERSONAL use, and that alone.
The sad flip side to this is that it has the highest HIV figures in Europe.

Okay,
rok on.... it sounds like i wont be messed with if i grow and/or own my own SMALL personal stash, but it is imperative to WEAR CONDOMS!

> Okay,
rok on.... it sounds like i wont be messed with if i grow and/or own my own SMALL personal stash, but it is imperative to WEAR CONDOMS!



Dot be mistaken into thinking that just because the locals are allowed to grow some then it will be fine for you too as well. The Guardia may look very poorly on someone coming into Spain with the express reason to grow a bit of a stash.

so is it really true about the HIV rate????

> so is it really true about the HIV rate????


It is im affraid, not surprising in such a Catholic country really.

Yeah, i'm from torrevieja and I have heard the same about the laws here. My friends and I often go to the beach and have a smoke. Speaking of which, does anyone know of someone who sells it?

If anyone does know someone who sells it, please don't post it on here... That's what the PM (private message) feature of the site is for. Thanks ;)

> Yeah, i'm from torrevieja and I have heard the same about the laws here. My friends and I often go to the beach and have a smoke. Speaking of which, does anyone know of someone who sells it?



you have got to be joking mate!!!

Well my mate just got back home from spain (he was on the islands)
..he could tell me about a very healthy diversity in what you can smoke over there.
So next time I visit spain, I look forward to having some spliffs on the beach, and getting that amsterdam feel spread all over my hotel bed :coolcheese:

Does anyone know what the decriminalised allowance actually is? I read in a Spanish paper recently about a guy who fled from the police while carrying 60g. He was later fined for reckless driving and avoiding arrest, but not for possession, as 60g is apparently not enough to get you into trouble - although at over two ounces it seems a lot to me, at least it would be at UK prices. On the other hand, lots of Spanish farmers on the coast of Granada province have been busted recently for growing in invernaderos - those plastic greenhouses - presumably on an industrial scale. Are there any fixed limits or is it up to the courts to decide on the circumstances?

I'm not sure of the legalities, but am well aware that growth and consumption is'nt restricted to any particular agegroup.

Whilst working on a property reform in a small village in Granada, I've seen the "growth" of many plants in the neighbouring back yards. Not a one of the neighbours is under 70. Obviously it helps those "aches and pains". ;-)

I must admist that I was quite surprised when I first came here looking at houses. I would walk into a garden or yard and think "Is that plant what I think it is?"

One house I visited, had a dining room table, featuring a huge pile of the refined product. I could'nt believe my eyes!! If that was for the owners "personal consumption", then I wish I'd made a stupid offer for the house while the owner was away in the clouds of smoke with the faeries hehe!

I remember I was on Ibiza several years back working, we where between San Antonio and Ibiza pueblo up in some campo and the Marijuana plants where growing seemingly wild at the back of some old buildings. It was fairly openly used here on the mainland but not quite as openly as that.

JFYI, there are opium fields out the back of Malaga that are harvested for pharmaceutical industry, remember reading that the Guardia put a lot of officers on foot patrol at night and catch quite a lot of people every year, those who try and bleed the poppies into film containers painted ' marked ' so the dealers know which sap was theirs :)

What about any hallucinogenic plants native to Spain? Mushrooms? Cacti? :)

> [quote author="silentbob" date="1172177750"]Yeah, i'm from torrevieja and I have heard the same about the laws here. My friends and I often go to the beach and have a smoke. Speaking of which, does anyone know of someone who sells it?



you have got to be joking mate!!![/quote]

Theres always one isn't there???!!!

> [quote author="jyeppers19" date="1172152957"]so is it really true about the HIV rate????


It is im affraid, not surprising in such a Catholic country really.[/quote]What has religion got to do with it?

Because they are not allowed to wear condoms which would stop the spread of the disease

> Because they are not allowed to wear condoms which would stop the spread of the disease

well if you waer a Child sexual abuse it will help in lot off ways from e diseas, go to the who link is http://www.who.int/ and look it up
the Catholic do not want you to waer a
...... and lot diseas are run the mill , and from what happen to the church with sex Child sexual abuse ... would ask you hows right , sorry ant the church ....... condoms do help in ways from sex to gay sex bi are what every

Church Catholic Churches are wrong and thay know it but wont let on Catholic .priest tock kids who where n truble and did there best to fuck up there lifes , us kids that are now adult are paying for it while Government help this peter files gsorry be t it happen et way for what thay did

condom do help from spread sexually transmitted infections (STIs) of the Erasmus Medisch Centrum Rotterdam (Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam) in the Netherlands reported 16 cases of infectious syphilis (six primary and 10 secondary cases), compared with four cases in the first half of 2001 and six cases in the whole of 2000

want ot fight on this one , no problem ...... i will ,

Why would I want to fight? All I said was that condoms stop the spread of the disease and the Catholic church didn't allow their people to wear them. I didn't say I thought they were right.

I'm certainly not going to defend or apologise for Catholicism in Spain or anywhere else, but the high prevalance of HIV in Southern Europe is nothing much to do with the Church - it's down to needle-sharing amongst intravenous drug users. 51% of heroin users in Barcelona are positive, which is much higher even than here in Glasgow, where there is a worse heroin problem, but better distribution of clean needles. Only about a quarter of HIV cases in Spain have been contracted through heterosexual sex - which is the area, if I understand the situation correctly, where the attitudes of the Church might have made a difference either way. Condoms are freely available in all the Catholic countries with a high HIV rate (Spain, Italy, France etc.). It just so happens that these countries also have a lot of needle-sharing amongst junkies. It's true, I'll accept, that many Catholic men sleep with heroin-using prostitutes and then have unprotected sex with their wives, but if this is a significant means of transmission, then it's not born out by the statistics.

I'm always up for criticising the Church - for their politics, and of course because the religion itself is complete nonsense. I just don't think it's their fault on this one.

"The sad flip side to this is that it has the highest HIV figures in Europe."

Does that have anything to do with Marijuana usage? From your post it sounds like it does lol.

> "The sad flip side to this is that it has the highest HIV figures in Europe."

Does that have anything to do with Marijuana usage? From your post it sounds like it does lol.


Ah, that's the beauty of forum threads, they go off in all kinds of directions. I don't think that anyone's saying you can get HIV from a spliff. However, small quantities of heroin for personal use are also permissable in Spain under the same legal framework, I believe, and some would argue that's contributed to the HIV epidemic from injecting. I don't agree, as we have a worse smack problem in some countries where it's definitely not permissable, but I assume that's what this contributor is getting at.

> "The sad flip side to this is that it has the highest HIV figures in Europe."

Does that have anything to do with Marijuana usage? From your post it sounds like it does lol.



Nope, it doesn't, but it does have a lot to do with injectable drug use, and that's what I was trying to hi light.

it isnt a good idea to have any type of drug on you but if ure carefull and dont take the piis its fine on the beach or in a park where there arent many people or guardia civil. its not a good idea to sit opposite your local cop shop with an 18 inch reefer hangin out your mouth whilst your mates rollin a blunt.

Spain is not a significant producer or cultivator of narcotics, but continues to serve as a primary transit site of South American cocaine and Moroccan hashish destined for other parts of Europe. The most notable increase in narcotics consumption in Spain involves the use of designer drugs, such as "ecstasy" (MDMA). Spanish authorities continue to work closely with their US counterparts, and in international organizations, to disrupt drug trafficking into and out of Spain.
While it produces many precursor chemicals, Spain is not a major source of chemicals diverted to illicit drug manufacture. Spanish law with respect to precursor chemicals accords with European Union (EU) directives and with the 1988 UN Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances.

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I wonder if those were my cousins houses in Albolote' growing herbs?? I sure saw a lot of hashish smoking going on while I was in Spain..

It is ligal if i remember caractly

> People should allowed to use medical marijuana, as it is proving helpful in many ways. marijuana can be of benefit in the treatment of many medical conditions.

Trully agry with you. That would be right