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Spanish police seizes ‘Europe’s largest cannabis plantation’

Spanish police have seized a huge cannabis plantation in the northern province of Navarra. According to the Civil Guard, the plantation was 415 hectares, the largest of its kind in Europe.

The area is equivalent to more than double the size of Monaco and around 9.5 times the size of the Vatican City.

Selling any amount of marijuana is a criminal offence in Spain, according to cannabisnews.pl, an industry website. It adds that buying, possessing and consuming the drug in public places is an offence punishable by fines and confiscation. However, adult consumption in private places is legal.

Moreover, the website wrote that cannabis cultivation is decriminalised for adults in private spaces due to a kind of legal loophole that qualifies it as a misdemeanour, even though it is not legal under Spanish law. Nevertheless, the cultivation of cannabis plants visible from the street (e.g. on balconies) is treated as a serious administrative offence punishable by a fine, it added.

In 2020, The European Commission surveyed 1,000 participants over the age of 15 in each member state, except for Cyprus, Malta and Luxembourg. Asked “have you used products containing cannabis in the last 12 months?” approximately eight percent of respondents said yes.

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