What are the laws surrounding cannabis growing and use in Spain?
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Well the truth is that you can smoke all you want and yes your are allowed to grow your maryjane at home.  Well as long as its for personal consumption.  You can smoke publicly and it is perfectly fine.  Well at least I have smoked next to El Corte Ingles en la avendiad de Francia en Valencia.  No one said nothing so for my understanding it is fine.
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420 is the legal code for a marijuana violation.\nPeople that use 420 in their handle are letting you know they do illicit drugs for recreation - specifically: they smoke pot and get high.
994166
In The Netherlands you can get a subscription for Marijuana from your Doctor for reducing pains  that come with following diseases/illnesses:\n\n- Multiple sclerosis\n- Side effects of chemotherapy, radiotherapy\n- Chronic nerve pains\n- Syndrom of Gilles de la Tourette \n- With some treatments of cancer and AIDS (as as painkiller)\n- Sleeping disorders
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Amsterdam in the Netherlands (Holland) has a particularly lax stance on wacky weed and hashish. It is sold openly in coffee houses there.
488700
In the Netherlands, softer drugs such as marijuana is legal.  However.  It is controlled.  You have to have a license to sell it. (such as a coffee shop.. yes they exist and no they are not all they are cracked up to be) You are only allowed to sell to 18 and older and only a certain amount per person.  Most coffee shops make it a rule that you HAVE to have a cup of tea or coffee while there.  (but not all) You can see people smoking on the streets.  Its not uncommon but the govt frowns on such behavior.
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In California, the vast majority of drug laws are found in the Health and Safety code.  \n\nYes, there are laws that prohibit people from legally buying some of the precursors used to manufacture some types of illicit drugs.  However, some drugs either don't require precursors (marijuana) or are made in another country (cocaine), so those laws aren't especially effective as to those drugs.
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Firearms laws in Spain are very restrictive. Perhaps not as restrictive as in other European countries but certainly in a different level than in the US. It is possible to obtain firearms licence for hunting (shotguns, rifles and assault rifle versions) without too many problems. Automatic weapons are strictly forbidden at to anyone not belonging to the military or police forces (they can own them privately). \nWith regards to hand guns, there is a possibility to obtain a licence and purchase but the applicant has to become member of the Spanish federation of olimpic shooting, and pass several tests. The gun cannot be carried around unless on the way to the shooting venue and by law they have to be kept in a safe. Some pressure has been put in the legislative body to pass a regulation to the effect that hand guns should be kept in the federation´s premises and only removed on the day of shooting. However, so far licenced handgun owners can keep them at home. \n\nSome people, by virtue of their jobs, such as military, policemen, judges, politicians and so on are able to obtain a special licence to carry a handgun at all times. This is specially the case in areas like the Basque territory. \n\nI hope this information is helpful
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From the Spanish word "potigauya" which means marijuana leaves.  The term "pot" has been in use in the US at least as far back as the 1930's. \n \nAn interesting sidebar here -- the Marijuana Tax Stamp Acts created in the 30's were part of the federal government's attempts to create marijuana laws to use against Mexican immigrants as well as against African-Americans.   \n\nIn that period, there were significant numbers of Mexican and other Hispanics living in the US, and much like today, there was a great public outcry against them.\n\nOur (US) history is filled with immigrations and cultural backlashes against the immigrants.  My own family began its history in the US as part of the mid-19th century Irish immigration.  The prejudices against the Irish were exactly the same as today's prejudices against Hispanic immigrants.
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Federally it is illegal everywhere in the US. Medical Marijuana growing only works for as long as it doesn't attract the FBI or DEA's attention. Only local police won't bother you if that state has medical marijuana laws. \n\nAs to Arkansas, I really don't know. I don't see anything about them at NORML
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In the Netherlands, marijuana is not technically legal, but authorities do nothing to enforce the law, and it therefore effectively legal. The Netherlands, starting in the 60s, have some of the most liberal laws with regards to drugs and prostitution, though apparently they take a much harder stance on hard drugs (eg. heroin, cocaine).\n\nThe US, among western nations, has some of the most conservative laws. For example, there are only two major industrialized countries where capital punishment is still legal: the US and Japan. In places like Germany, France, Australia, Canada, Spain, and Britain, the death penalty has been eliminated. So too with drugs, the US still insists on fighting the "War on Drugs" (even though it has been largely unsuccessful) as a matter of policy. While marijuana is illegal in most other places, enforcement is even more lax and there has been serious talk of decriminalizing pot in many of these countries. For example, I live in Canada and our Senate (granted, the Canadian Senate is not elected) recommended that pot be decriminalized a few years ago. Such an action would be unheard of in the US, where pot is still upheld as the source of a great myriad of social ills while tobacco and alcohol are taxed pitifully compared to many other Western countries.
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Well.. I am Dutch and I could ask the same question for my country. It is tolerated for more then 30 years in the whole of the Netherlands (so not just the city of Amsterdam), but still not legal. That's mainly because of pressure from other countries and the European community, even if we have the lowest amount of harddrug addicts because of our drugpolicy.\n\nI find it completely ridiculous that it is still illegal to smoke a plant!\n\nSo, if it is still not legal here after such a long time of tolerance, I don't know where you come from but if you are Americain I wouldn't bet on a quick legalisation.
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marijuana was legal up until 1937. george washington grew it and in virgina in the 1700s you could pay your taxes with it. and im not making that up, anyone who doesnt believe me can look it up.\n\npeace
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You can't "manufacture" marijuana. Manufacturing is where you take raw materials and convert them into a product through mechanical or chemical means. Pot has to be cultivated, which means it has to be grown and then collected in order to get "the bud"
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Medical marijuana can be allowed if it is regulated by the government.
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No.  The gov't has no way of controlling it therefore being unable to tax it.  No money for the gov't = No legal weed for USA.  It is legal in some states for medicinal purposes, but you can still be tried federally for it.  (Which is so bizarre, I thought the state had supremecy in something like that).  It's just amazing that alcohol and cigarettes do SO much damage to your body and marijuana does virtually nothing & is sometimes helpful.  It helps with my anxiety.  Legalizing it would also put us in a different state from the rest of the world, there are countries in which you can lose your life for carrying a spliff.  Up until a couple years ago, England treated marijuana offenders the same way they treated cocaine/heroin offenders.
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No. Singapore lifted its ban, so that's no longer the case.  Don't know about Amsterdam, but I'm skeptical of that one, since you can smoke hash there without risk.
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I live in California and there are many "clubs" around here for the medical/medicinal marijuana users to purchase.  There are also co-op growers who have a state issued lisence to grow and/or distribute to the clubs.  This is not to say that marijuana is legal here, just that there are ways to get around it.  Get your card.