Category: Spanish Cannabis News
Stay informed with the latest Spanish cannabis news, regulation updates, and market analysis. This category is your definitive source for curated, real-time coverage on the evolving cannabis landscape across Spain, including Barcelona, Madrid, and the Canary Islands. We track critical developments across three key areas:
Legislation & Policy: Updates on national and regional laws, medical cannabis decrees, and the status of Cannabis Social Clubs (CSCs).
Business & Market: Analysis of investment, CBD market trends, and growth opportunities within the Spanish cannabis sector.
Enforcement: Real-time reports on local police actions, drug seizures, and how enforcement is shaping the grey market.
Whether you are an industry professional, patient, or activist, find reliable, organized information to navigate Spain’s complex cannabis laws and the future of the legal cannabis market in Europe.
A 28-YEAR-OLD British man has vanished in the southern Costa Blanca after a series of gang-related incidents involving expats. The missing fugitive with a UK extradition warrant issued against him has not been named but comes from Merseyside and is an associate of Bootle gangster, Sonny Redmond. Redmond was in his car at an Orihuela […]
THIS is the moment an Andalucian mayor pleaded for government help as brazen ‘nacro-boats’ were caught on camera idling off Spanish shores in broad daylight – just metres from where he stood. Shocking video depicts two speedboats floating undisturbed off the coast of Pulpi, in northern Almeria province, as the town’s mayor Juan Pedro Garcia […]
Why are Europe’s emerging markets excluding flower? Martinez argues that the shift away from flower is a natural evolution in a market focused purely on cannabis as a medicine, helping grease the wheels of integration into existing healthcare models. “Both France and Spain have launched highly restrictive, hospital-oriented programmes,” he explained. “In that setting, excluding […]
A DRUG mule who flew from Amsterdam to Valencia swallowed over 1.1 kilos of heroin in a failed bid to evade authorities. The 37-year-old man was arrested for drug trafficking at Valencia airport on January 12. The Policia Nacional discovered the mule was onboard an inbound flight after receiving information that he could be a […]
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 […]
