Category: Cannabis News
The Legal Arguments Both appeals challenge the decree on multiple grounds, with a strong emphasis on patient access and equity rather than business interests. CEOFA’s December appeal argues the decree ‘incurs in a regulatory excess, violating the principle of normative hierarchy and directly contradicting the provisions of the Law on Guarantees and Rational Use of […]
A MAN has died and several others are feared missing after human smugglers forced migrants to swim to Andalucian shores at gunpoint on Sunday. Shocking video by Diario de Almeria shows two migrant-packed speedboats bearing down on an old pier off Aguamarga, in Almeria province, before dozens of terrified people are ordered into the sea […]
POLICE raids have shut down narco flats in a popular expat town during the latest drug crackdown on the Costa del Sol. The Policia Nacional arrested two individuals for drug trafficking after entering three properties in Fuengirola that were being used to sell drugs. Officers entered the three addresses, in the Los Nucleos neighbourhood, at […]
A NOTORIOUS Mexican cartel that slipped crystal meth into Europe by concealing it in marble statues delivered to Spain has been smashed by police following a series of dramatic raids. Agents from the Policia Nacional, working alongside the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), have dismantled what is described as the continent’s ‘main supply point’ for […]
A BRITISH man who survived a brazen mafia-style assassination attempt on the Costa Blanca has been named. Sonny Redmond, 32, remains in intensive care in Torreveija Hospital after he was gunned down in an underground car park in a residential area of Orihuela Costa called Lomas de Cabo Roig. Redmond was sat in his car […]
Report from Chemnitz Just a short walk from the imposing Karl Marx monument in Chemnitz —a 7-meter-high bronze head—sits a smaller sign of social change: Founded in 2022, Klub Karl is one of Germany’s first Cannabis Social Clubs (CSCs), but it can not grow a single plant yet, due to administration process. What the club […]
For the first time in its history, UNESCO’s flagship cultural policy conference will give cannabis a prominent platform, marking the centenary of its international prohibition and reflecting its growing cultural acceptance. UNESCO’s (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development, Mondiacult, is the world’s largest cultural conference, welcoming delegations from […]
MINUTES Annual General Assembly 2025_VF Annual General Assembly ENCOD, European Coalition for Just and Effective Drug Policies 10th and 12th October 2025, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Agenda ENCOD General Assembly 2025 October 10th-12th – Eindhoven (NL) Attendees online: Giuliano Gavazzi (Pot Radio Italy), Paulo Thiessen (Brazilian lawyer based in France), Olli Waack (CSCD Germany), Paolo Occidente (Pot […]
A BULLET-RIDDEN body of a British man was discovered in an Orihuela Costa property before Christmas. Details have only just been made public over the shooting of a 29-year-old Brit on the Lomas de Cabo Roig urbanisation. The Orihuela Policia Local went to the home at around 9pm on December 21. READ MORE: GUARDIA CIVIL […]
THE falling price of cocaine is driving drug traffickers in Spain to reuse ‘narco-submarines’ they would otherwise destroy, in what authorities described as a major operational change. The semi-submersible vessels, used to smuggle cocaine into Europe and each costing around €600,000 to build, would normally be scuttled in the waters between the Azores and Canary […]
