(ANSAmed) - MADRID, MARCH 23 - Catalan police have arrested the
head of the Barcelona association of cannabis consumers (ABCDA),
which has promoted the controversial scheme to plant marijuana
in the town of Rasquera (Tarragona). Local police sources
quoted by the media today say that the man was arrested on
drug-trafficking charges. Four other members of the association
were also charged with the same crime. During the operation,
police also raided one of the offices managed by consumer group
in the Barceloneta area of Barcelona, seizing 1.3 kilos of
marijuana, weighing equipment and 2,000 euros in cash. At the
time on the office, which was later taken over by police, a
dozen people smoking or waiting to buy the drug were on the
premises.
On March 1, the Catalan town of Rasquera approved the sale of state-owned land to the ABCDA association, which has 5,000 members, to plant a "cannabis cultivation for recreational and therapeutic purposes", in exchange for the creation of forty jobs in an attempt to cancel the 1.3 million euros of deficit in the town's coffers. The decision brought provoked intervention by the Catalan regional government, which said that such a plantation would violate Article 368 of the penal code, which bans cultivation, treatment and trafficking of drugs. (ANSAmed).
On March 1, the Catalan town of Rasquera approved the sale of state-owned land to the ABCDA association, which has 5,000 members, to plant a "cannabis cultivation for recreational and therapeutic purposes", in exchange for the creation of forty jobs in an attempt to cancel the 1.3 million euros of deficit in the town's coffers. The decision brought provoked intervention by the Catalan regional government, which said that such a plantation would violate Article 368 of the penal code, which bans cultivation, treatment and trafficking of drugs. (ANSAmed).
