Companies growing cannabis in Spain

Companies growing cannabis in Spain

Cannabis has become a thriving sector in recent years. An increasing number of investment funds are focusing on trading shares of companies in the cannabis sector. These companies are mostly American and Canadian and are buying or participating in companies with...
Cultivation of Medicinal Cannabis in Spain: licences and legality

Cultivation of Medicinal Cannabis in Spain: licences and legality

Narcotics in Spain are governed by Law 17 of 8 April 1967, which updated and recognised as narcotic substances those named in the 1961 United Nations Convention. Cannabis was among those substances. This law, based on the consideration of cannabis as a narcotic,...
Countries where marijuana is legal

Countries where marijuana is legal

The legal status of marijuana as a psychoactive substance has been a subject of debate in countries around the world over the last few decades. Many of these countries have regulations regarding the cultivation, possession, sale and use of cannabis. Non-psychoactive...
Therapeutic Marijuana in Spain: Uses and Properties

Therapeutic Marijuana in Spain: Uses and Properties

The use of marijuana whether for therapeutic or recreational purposes is punishable in Spain. Nevertheless, some 300,000 Spaniards use cannabis as a medicine, and although more and more doctors recommend its use, patients can only buy it on the black market or in a...
Therapeutic cannabis and its medicinal use

Therapeutic cannabis and its medicinal use

Cannabis is an extraordinary plant that contains a wide variety of active principles known generally as cannabinoids. The two most studied for their importance are CBD, cannabidiol, and THC, delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol. Both act on specific receptors located on cell...