Category: Cannabis News
Extracts over flower Another key part of the pharmaceutical focus is the omission of raw cannabis flower, a controversial choice for many, but one that is becoming increasingly common in emerging markets such as Spain’s incoming framework. While flower is technically permitted, it is heavily restricted to sealed, single-use vape cartridges for use with CE-approved […]
TWO Guardia Civil officers were injured after their car was rammed by an Irish driver during a 15 kilometre chase in the Murcia region. The man was keen not to be stopped as he had garbage bags filled with drugs in his car boot. The pursuit happened on Saturday night in the Lorca area when […]
DRUG busts in Spain have become so commonplace that it seems like there is one a day – and this isn’t just rhetoric. Criminal gangs from all over the world collaborate – and sometimes fight – to smuggle and distribute an unknowable number of tonnes of cocaine and hash into Europe via Spain’s shores and […]
A SHOCKING shootout in Mijas at the weekend has laid bare a terrifying new reality on the Costa del Sol – one where drug gangs looking for quick profit are turning residential streets into battlegrounds. The violent clash on Saturday afternoon, which saw a high-speed chase end in gunfire and an overturned vehicle, is just […]
RUSTING against the dock in Santa Cruz de Tenerife sits the United S, a vessel that looks like it belongs in the scrapyard. Instead, it finds itself at the centre of a multi-million-euro criminal investigation. The aging cargo ship has been the subject of intense police scrutiny since elite Spanish police officers stormed its deck […]
ELITE officers from the Policia Nacional have seized the largest high-seas cocaine haul in the force’s history after storming a merchant ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Agents from the GEO special operations unit boarded the vessel 535 kilometres off the coast of the Canary Islands to discover nearly 10 tonnes of the drug hidden beneath […]
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 […]
