Barcelona Cannabis Club Shut Down Over Marijuana Candy
Cannibis clubs fall into legal limbo in Spain.
Authorities in Spain closed down a cannabis club in Barcelona that sold marijuana candy and other similar products to more than 16,000 people, many of them tourists, police said on Tuesday.
They arrested five managers of the club, which opened in 2013 in the centre of the popular Mediterranean seaside city, the Guardia Civil police force said in a statement.
These types of clubs often fall into legal limbo in Spain, where trafficking marijuana is illegal but consuming it is not.
In the legal grey area users have created clubs to grow cannabis plants to share, which are accepted by Spanish authorities as long as the marijuana is only for use among members and not for profit.
But this was not the case for the Barcelona club, where the five arrested are accused of promoting their activities to the city's many tourists...
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