Cannabis Freedom Index

Cannabis clubs

Social clubs and collective growing.

16 entries, 1997–2026 · 2 moved a score · back to the whole history

World average score and Cannabis clubs entries per decade

13.2 today, from 99.1 in 1860

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20261 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇪🇸 Spain Debate ✓ Article

    Spain's cabinet backs a tobacco law that would hit cannabis clubs

    The Council of Ministers approved a draft overhaul of the 2005 tobacco law that would remove the exemption for private smokers' clubs, one of the legal props the cannabis clubs rely on. It had not completed its passage by October.

20252 entries0 score changes

  1. 🇨🇾 Cyprus Debate ✓

    Cyprus’s Volt party proposes a regulated cannabis market for adults

    Volt Cyprus called for legal adult possession and a licensed cannabis market overseen by an independent regulator. Its proposal included controlled production, retail and clubs, taxation, and easier medical access through the national health system. The party argued that criminalisation burdened courts, harmed young people and strengthened the illicit market, and invited public discussion.

  2. 🇲🇹 Malta Tightening ✓ Article

    Malta tightens the rules for its cannabis associations

    Parliament unanimously passed amendments to the 2021 cannabis law. Associations that let minors on site face fines of up to 10,000 euros and must keep 250 metres from schools, sports facilities and youth centres, and their offences now go before a Court of Magistrates. The definition of cannabis was clarified to cover THC and CBD, leaving out non-psychoactive cannabinoids with less than 0.2% THC. A new 235-euro fine covers cannabis smoke that bothers neighbours, even from inside a home.

20242 entries1 score change

  1. 🇲🇹 Malta Legalisation ✓ Article

    Malta's first cannabis associations open

    Two years after legalisation, the first licensed non-profit associations began handing out cannabis to their members, the only legal source other than growing at home.

    3841+3 points

  2. 🇨🇿 Czechia Debate ✓

    Czechia's cannabis bill drops the commercial market

    The government presented a draft cannabis law covering home growing, cannabis clubs, licensed sales and exports, and taxation, with registration of users, small growers and clubs. It left out the open regulated market that had been planned. Pro-legalisation groups criticised the omission, and the drug coordinator Jindřich Vobořil said he was not giving up.

20232 entries0 score changes

  1. 🇲🇹 Malta Other law ✓

    Malta licenses its first cannabis associations

    The Authority for the Responsible Use of Cannabis granted the first operational licences to two non-profit associations, KDD Society and Ta' Zelli, with four more holding licences in principle. Its chair, Leonid McKay, said the authority would not set prices, expected them to compete with the black market, and would keep out commercial interests.

  2. 🇪🇸 Spain Tightening ✓

    Barcelona's mayor pledges to close the city's cannabis clubs

    Jaume Collboni promised to shut every cannabis social club in the city, after his deputy for security called cannabis use a basic source of conflict. Clubs and their federations began protests early in 2024.

20221 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇺🇸 United States · Nevada Other law ✓

    Nevada's board approves consumption-lounge regulations

    Assembly Bill 341 of 2021 authorised the Cannabis Compliance Board to license and regulate cannabis consumption lounges. On 28 June 2022 the board approved the regulations and expected the first application round in the autumn. A retail lounge must be attached or immediately next to an adult-use shop. An independent lounge is separate from one. A 2017 bill to license lounges had missed its deadline, and a counsel opinion that year was not a licensing statute.

20171 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇪🇸 Spain Legalisation ✓

    Catalonia regulates cannabis clubs

    The Catalan parliament passed a law legalising the growing and distribution of cannabis within registered associations. Spain's Constitutional Court annulled it the next year, ruling that only the national parliament can legislate on drugs.

20151 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇪🇸 Spain Tightening ✓

    Spain's Supreme Court convicts cannabis club organisers

    In three rulings, on the Ebers, Three Monkeys and Pannagh associations, the Supreme Court convicted club organisers, holding that what the clubs did was not genuine private or shared consumption. The rulings left the clubs tolerated but without legal protection.

20141 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇺🇾 Uruguay Other law ✓

    Uruguay starts registering cannabis clubs

    The regulator announced it would register membership clubs of 15 to 45 members growing up to 99 plants. A club must first be a civil association, keep all activity on its own premises and stand at least 150 metres from schools and rehabilitation centres.

20131 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇮🇹 Italy Debate ✓

    Patients with multiple sclerosis found a cannabis club in Puglia

    Lucia Spiri and Andrea Trisciuoglio, both living with multiple sclerosis, founded LaPianTiamo in Racale, Puglia, as a cannabis social club for patients. They wanted to grow cannabis together and get a steadier supply than the slow import procedure gave them. Growing together was not allowed by law, so the club was also a campaign to change it.

20121 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇪🇸 Spain Debate ✓ Article

    A Spanish village votes on growing cannabis to pay its debt

    Rasquera, a Catalan village of 960 people, held a referendum on leasing land to ABCDA, a Barcelona cannabis association with 5,000 members, which would grow for its members and pay the village 1.3 million euros, about what it owed. The plan was said to bring about 40 jobs, and it needed 75 per cent approval to go ahead. It won 56.3 per cent, so it missed that threshold. The national drug office said growing on that scale would break the law and pledged to block it. In May 2013 a court in Tarragona revoked the agreements, holding that a town's financial trouble does not make such contracts a matter of public interest.

20061 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇧🇪 Belgium Debate ✓

    Belgium's first cannabis social club is founded in Antwerp

    Trekt Uw Plant was founded three years after the law set cannabis apart from other drugs and tolerated an adult's single plant. It harvested its first formal crop in 2010. In 2013 a second club became independent in Hasselt and three more were founded in Liège, Andenne and Namur. Over the same years the police dismantled ever more plantations: 35 in 2003, 1,212 in 2013.

20011 entry1 score change

  1. 🇪🇸 Spain Easing ✓

    Cannabis social clubs take root in Spain

    Because growing and sharing among a closed group of users is not treated as trafficking, associations began cultivating collectively for their members. The first, ARSEC, was founded in Barcelona in the early 1990s; hundreds opened in the 2000s, mostly in Catalonia and the Basque Country, tolerated but never legalised.

    3033+3 points

19971 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇪🇸 Spain Tightening ✓

    Spain convicts the founders of its first cannabis association

    Four members of ARSEC in Barcelona, the first users' association, were sentenced to four months in prison and a fine. Around the same time a court in Bilbao found that another association had not broken the law, and in 2006 and 2007 club members in Andalusia were acquitted and their crops returned.

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  1. 🇺🇸 United States170
  2. 🇮🇳 India53
  3. 🇧🇷 Brazil51
  4. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom45
  5. 🇨🇦 Canada44
  6. 🇮🇹 Italy39
  7. 🇲🇽 Mexico39
  8. 🇩🇪 Germany34

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