Sep 17, 2012
This week's very special episode of the Web's Favourite Cannabis
Podcast comes live from the stunning surroundings of the brand new
Hemp Museum Gallery in the beautiful city of Barcelona in Spain,
the launch of which is the latest event in the blossoming of this
incredible historic, artistic and freedom loving city into a new
European capital of cannabis culture. The Dopefiend is first joined
by the spokesperson for the Hemp Museum Gallery, Angela Ayala
Segura, who talks about her involvement with the museum, why its
patron and sponsor, the cannabis entrepreneur Ben Dronkers, has
chosen to partner his Amsterdam museum with this sumptuous new
location, how he intends to use it to spread the truth about the
unjust prohibition of cannabis, and how it is already succeeding in
doing this. Angela also talks about this year's Cannabis Culture
Awards, which were held at the Barcelona museum, and which
celebrated the achievements of the Global Commission on Drug
Policy. Next, the Dopefiend talks to Elisabeth Mehl & Line
Sòrlie, two of the managers from the Resin Club and cannabis
Association in Barcelona, who talk about the growing Cannabis
Social Club scene in Spain, how both medical and recreational
cannabis users who want safe access to cannabis can avail
themselves of this system, how its careful regulation and the
strong support it offers its members puts the Netherlands' system
to shame and what it means for cannabis tourism in Spain. The
Dopefiend is also told what a Spanish Cannabis Club actually looks
like, and gets to take a close look at the quality of the cannabis
on offer there, including a high-CBD strain, Cannatonic, which
leads to some discussion of the value of high-CBD strains, and how
a regulated system allows such innovations to flourish. Next, after
sampling some of the Resin Club's Cannatonic in his Arizer Solo
vaporizer, the Dopefiend talks to another major figure in the
development of the cannabis scene in Spain, lawyer Oriol Casals,
who legally represents most of Spain's Cannabis Clubs, and is also
behind a proposition by the mayor of the Spanish town of Rasquera,
who is proposing to pay his town's defecit by growing cannabis.
Oriol talks about his argument that use of cannabis, like any
substance, is a basic individual human right, and is therefore
ultimately legal, how the authorities are responding to the
Cannabis Club movements, and also gives the latest information on
his involvement in the case involving potential legalisation of
cannabis in Rasquera, why he feels it is less about dealing with
the town's deficit and more about creating efficiency and
self-sufficiency. Finally Oriol talks about whether he thinks the
Rasquera project and the Spanish Cannabis Club movement will
eventually have an effect on the actual written law regarding
cannabis in Spain. Email mail@dopefiend.co.uk, send us a
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Find out more about the beautiful Hemp Museum Gallery in Barcelona
at www.hempmuseumgallery.com
Find out more about the Resin Club at www.facebook.com/ResinClub
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Podcast Image: Oriol Casals, Angela Ayala Segura, Line Sòrlie and
Elisabeth Mehl at the Hemp Museum Gallery in Barcelona. Submit your
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