This has been on the cards for a while and can’t come as a major surprise to anybody
La Marihuana reports
Wednesday, the Spanish Senate voted against the passing of a law proposed by the Confederal Left to regulate cannabis clubs throughout the country.
At the proposal of the Confederal Left, yesterday, Wednesday, the Spanish Senate voted on whether to process the rules to regulate cannabis clubs. The vote was against the measure. The conservative party of the PP, the socialist party PSOE and the ultra-conservative party of the VOX, which are a large majority, voted against the regulatory measure.
In contrast, the left-wing parties Geroa Bai, ERC, EH Bildu, together with the Catalan party JxCAT and the Liberal Citizens, voted in favor. The abstention from voting came from the Basque PNV and Aragonese from the PAR. The total sum was insufficient, therefore and the path of these consumer associations has a complicated future.
The Navarrese senator from Geroa Bai Koldo Martínez, who was a speaker and defender of the initiative, assured that the objective was not to “simply legalize” the consumption of cannabis or its self-cultivation “as if it were an open bar”, it was about set limits by legislating strictly and consistently, and thus be able to differentiate it from the illegal market.
The senator for Navarra, in turn, said that there is a worldwide trend in the legalizing direction and more and more countries choose to legislate everything related to the plant. The senator regretted the non-existence of “a clear, current and consistent regulatory framework with constitutional principles” and that it is causing consumers and entities “an undesirable physical and legal insecurity.”
Senator in defense of regulating cannabis clubs
Furthermore, Senator Koldo Martínez himself argued that the regulation of cannabis throughout the state would make it possible to cut part of the “risks and damages” associated with its consumption and would make it “safer.” The Navarrese politician defended the regulation in a responsible way for adults and without inciting new consumption. He also recalled that in autonomous communities such as Navarra, the Basque Country, the Balearic Islands, Catalonia and many other cities there is already a regulation of these associations, and that in the current set of Spain there would be over 1,500 cannabis clubs or associations.
Senators against the proposal
The spokeswoman for the socialist group, Patricia Abascal, was not of the same opinion that the norms are obsolete. In addition, his group is committed to a beginning with the regulation of its medicinal or therapeutic use and as a result, to progress with what is related and added “but always taking into account that it is a drug and that its consumption has many damages for public health ” .
From the conservatives of the Popular Party, Senator Patricia Rodríguez said that opening the proposed proposal sought to open the recreational and recreational use of cannabis and that this increased with the existence of “greater accessibility, availability and normalization.”
Still further to the right, José Manuel Martin as senator of the VOX, considered that legalization “in any of its forms supposes a surrender of society and a trivialization of drugs.”
Senators for abstention
The senator of the Basque Nationalist Party, Nerea Ahedo, argued her commitment to abstention from the regulatory initiative. He said that the PNV was in favor of regulating cannabis clubs, because the prohibitionist policy had shown that it did not work. Although, the proposal or initiative presented and defended by Senator Koldo Martínez and in search of regulating cannabis clubs “did not seem to have legal and secure support”, and it also did not respect the powers of Basque autonomy.
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España, Senado vota en contra de regular los clubes de cannabis
