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The Ministry of Health, through the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices (AEMPS), has opened a prior public consultation on amending Royal Decree 2829/1977, which regulates psychotropic substances and preparations and imposes control measures and criminal penalties. The proposed amendment would add new substances to the control lists, notably several cannabinoids not yet controlled … Read more
On 4 October 2024 the CJEU delivered its long-awaited judgment in Case C-793/22, Biohemp Concept SRL, concerning the refusal of authorisation to grow hemp in hydroponic systems inside enclosed spaces. Facts of the case Biohemp Concept applied for authorisation to grow hemp on a total area of 0.54 hectares, including a building used as a … Read more
Spain’s Ministry of Health publishes the draft Royal Decree on medical cannabis Today the Spanish Agency of Medicines and Medical Devices (AEMPS) published the draft Royal Decree laying down the conditions for the preparation and dispensing of standardised magistral formulas of standardised cannabis preparations. The text is currently open to public consultation. This Royal Decree … Read more
As part of its commitment to reforming cannabis policy in Spain, Podemos, now part of the Mixed Group, has registered a significant legislative proposal in the Spanish Congress of Deputies: the Bill on the Comprehensive Regulation and Control of Cannabis for Adults. This initiative, which had already been put forward in the previous legislature but … Read more
A cannabis association or cannabis social club is a non-profit association of adult cannabis users who organise themselves to obtain cannabis and consume it in a private space, without going to the illegal market. Setting up the association is legal, but its activity is not regulated by any national law in Spain, so the way … Read more
Exciting times lie ahead for cannabis regulation in Spain. During the arduous process of forming a new government after last July’s elections, we received news that fills those who advocate regulating this plant with hope: Mónica García has been confirmed as Minister of Health. Mónica García, the current leader of the opposition to Díaz Ayuso … Read more
When will cannabis be regulated, after the cannabis regulation bill was presented in the last legislature? Today marks two years since the Bill on the Comprehensive Regulation and Control of Cannabis for Adults was presented in the Spanish Congress of Deputies on 6 October 2021. At S&F Abogados we had the pleasure of coordinating the … Read more
Bernardo Soriano talks to Radio 3 (RNE) about Germany’s cannabis law and why Spain needs comprehensive regulation, not just cannabis social clubs.
The most profitable (legal) businesses in the cannabis industry Cannabis is coming out of the closet, faster in some countries than in others. In Spain, many cannabis businesses are still unregulated, but the knock-on effect of legalisation in other countries, and the big legalisation boom in the United States, has arrived here too. Although almost … Read more
To the Bureau of the Congress of Deputies The parliamentary groups Unidas Podemos (UP), Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (ERC) and Euskal Herria Bildu, in accordance with Article 193 et seq. of the Rules of the Chamber, submit the following non-legislative motion to promote the regulation of hemp for industrial purposes and of non-psychoactive cannabis, protecting … Read more