Cannabis Social Clubs
Healing the Word
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In supporting healing plant medicine websites, webshops and related online services.
I’m proud to inform you of my website in support of: Cannabis Social Clubs
🔗 https://cannabis-social-clubs.org
which is a site I did, when I freelanced and volunteered for ENCOD in support of the initiative:
https://encod.org/cannabis-social-clubs
which was in response to activists in Bilbao, Spain that drafted the original concept:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955395926000575
“Cannabis social clubs (CSCs) emerged in Spain in the 1990s as community-based, non-profit alternatives to illicit cannabis markets, offering adults a closed-circuit system for collective cultivation and distribution. Their rapid expansion after 2012 relied on self-regulation and strategic socio-legal mobilization that leveraged ambiguities in criminal and administrative law. Their trajectory can be understood as a case of contentious politics, shaped by sustained interaction between grassroots-actors, courts, and public authorities within Spain’s decentralized governance system.”
The first CSCs emerged in the 1990s from cannabis consumers’ associations seeking safer and more regulated access to cannabis outside illicit markets. However, it was only after 2012 that the model scaled up rapidly, underpinned by favorable lower-court rulings, permissive local administrative practices, and increasing engagement by municipal and regional authorities.
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