Cannabis Club Madrid, all you need to know

Jul 30, 2019 | 0 comments

Cannabis Club Madrid, all you need to know

In this post we would like to highlight the essential points that you need to know about Cannabis Social Clubs in Madrid, the laws, rules and their application. In the Spanish capital things are not like in any other cities such as Amsterdam, as there are small differences that are important to keep in mind. Keep reading and you will understand how and what to do to enjoy your stay in the city and relax in one of the many Cannabis Club Madrid.

Let’s see below all the points to remember:

• The fundamental rules around cannabis in Madrid are the same as in Barcelona with a substantial difference in terms of numbers. In this case Barcelona shows double numbers compared to Madrid. The system is the same and is based on the same principles included also in the Spanish constitution. However, the Catalan region and its own administration have facilitated the development of cannabis in Barcelona and this is the reason why Madrid is lagging behind.
• The referral is the same both in Madrid and Barcelona and is needed to become a new member of a club. Only existent members can do this given that this is a “closed” system and in order to join a club you need to follow this procedure, nothing complicated. It is important to mention that selling marijuana in the street is illegal, and consumption is only allowed in private but not in public. This is the reason why the Cannabis Club Madrid can offer this service, as it is a private environment, for members only.
• No requirement of residence in order to join the clubs. Some clubs require a real address to join, that is, of a real residence rather than a hotel or hostel. Only few will require this proof, in many cases even the Airbnb address will work. Of course the club has to respect your privacy and will not share your address to anyone.
• How is the cannabis market in Madrid? After a disappointing start compared to Barcelona, the capital is not catching up. The growth is increasing in high percentages year by year and they say that soon it will also take over Barcelona. The merit of this success is apparently due to the club managers that are doing a great job both in terms of service and promotion.
• The type of subscription. The Cannabis Social Clubs in Madrid offer many types of subscriptions that can be yearly, half year and three months based. These options ease the access to who comes only for a short period and can then buy a shorter subscription. The rule of the referral applies anyway, therefore once the subscription expires, many clubs cancel the member, but many others don’t. In this case you will have to start everything from scratch.
• Possession of cannabis outside the club. In Spain you can carry a small quantity of marijuana in private places, at home or in the club. For this reason we recommend to hide cannabis in the underwear if you really need to carry it. In this case if the police stops you, they won’t be able to check the underwear without a warrant. We suggest not to possess any cannabis at all.
• The police checks. Police checks The Cannabis Club Madrid only for two main reasons. The first is if they suspect that in the club there is illegal drug dealing, the second is if the club is putting public health in danger. This is an issue that affects the club managers but not the members, so you can relax unless you’re directly involved.
• No therapeutic cannabis. There is no doctor in Spain who can prescribe cannabis for therapeutic use as it is not required by the regulation. It does not matter whether you consume cannabis for your health of for fun, as long as you do it in private that is either at home or in the Cannabis Clubs.
• Smoking in public is forbidden. Although Cannabis Clubs are legal in Madrid, you should not be fooled: the clubs are private and legal but smoking in the streets isn’t. It is important not to forget this point: if you get caught smoking in public the police can fine you and take you to unpleasant situations. Better avoid.

To conclude

Enjoy the pleasure to consume cannabis in the clubs and do it while respecting the basic rules and while always behaving correctly. By following these principles you won’t have any problems and you will be able to enjoy all the cannabis you want as a member of the many clubs in the city!

How to make cannabis butter

Jul 25, 2019 | 0 comments

Hot to make cannabis butter

Many will probably be surprised by this post on how to make cannabis butter, a product that in reality is more used that one would think. This plant has specific characteristics that can be used in many ways, from creating objects to making food. Oil, flour, pasta, bread, dressings and much more. Butter is among them but it is probably the least famous and sold product. We can make it at home with the right quantities of the ingredients needed. Cannabis butter will be perfect to flavour desserts such as brownies and space cake, just to mention two.

Being butter a basic and fat ingredient, it has the capacity to absorb the liposoluble cannabinoids such as THC and CBD. This means that it will be possible to season any dish by flavouring it with marijuana, and obtaining innovative and delicious meals. Below we can see how to make cannabis butter and the recipe requires about one hour to obtain the finished product, 15 minutes to prepare it and 45 to cook.

Here you can find what you need and how you can make the butter

Tools:

• Spatula or large spoon
• Saucepan or pan
• Large bowl
• Colander
• Dishcloth
• Airtight container

Ingredients:

• 7 grams of cannabis tops/heads
• ½ cup of unsalted butter

Method:

The first step is to chop the decarboxylated cannabis given that it has to be reduced in fine powder. This way you will obtain a larger surface of marijuana that will be absorbed more easily.

Second step is melting the butter in a pan at low heat and then adding bit by bit the marijuana powder. Stir everything very carefully and every time you add some more powder. For vegans you can use coconut oil as an alternative to butter given that it has more or less the same features and it will give you the same results.

After 45 minutes the cooking should be completed and at this point you can pour the product in a large bowl while filtering everything with a colander. This passage is needed to remove the largest pieces of cannabis. Press well on the colander with a large spoon or a spatula to get all the product.

For extra filtering and to remove the residual marijuana you can use a dishcloth.

The result will be an intense green oil that will soon solidify becoming a nice stick of marijuana butter. To conclude, we recommend storing it in an airtight container and putting it in the fridge or freezer so you can use it anytime you need.

So we just discovered how to prepare cannabis butter that you can use to create many recipes with cannabis flavour. You can season pasta with it, you can use it to make biscuits, to add flavour to fish and meat and to use it for many other occasions and let your friends try it too! The recipe is easy and quick and with this butter you can season your usual meals and give it a new taste and a new life!

Cannabis social clubs in Madrid, discover the reality in the Spanish capital!

Jul 23, 2019 | 0 comments

Cannabis social clubs in Madrid, discover the reality in the Spanish capital!

Despite being ahead of many other European capitals, the information that people get about Madrid’s cannabis social clubs is wrong and misleading. Reality is quite different from the perception of visitors and the reason is poor and negative information. In this post we will sum up the most important points about this reality related to social clubs so as to break false myths and false information unrelated to reality.

The first four points:

1. It is common to think that there are just a few and low quality clubs in Madrid however there are between 80 and 100 of them all over the capital.
2. People often are unsure whether they need to be Spanish or not to join the clubs. It is not necessary to be Spanish as anyone can join and the only requirement is the referral from an already existent member.
3. Many people ask themselves if cannabis social clubs in Madrid differ from the ones in Barcelona. No, as far as bureaucracy and administration are concerned there is no difference. Also in terms of management there are no major differences therefore the mechanism is the same.
4. To many the cannabis social clubs in Madrid may sound as something new. This is not accurate though given that they have been in the capital for some years already. The difference is that they have not been spoken about widely or clearly.

Things are never like they tell us:

1. The lie of faeces contained in the hashish being sold in Madrid’s cannabis social clubs. This is the sensational bullshit that came out in a study conducted in 2018 where they analysed hashish sold in the streets instead of the one sold in the clubs. However, as it happens frequently, the news have been communicated in the wrong way and interpreted even worse. Obviously hashish bought in the street cannot even be compared to the products sold in the clubs. It is normal to find faeces in stuff bought in the streets given that drugs are smuggled the way you can imagine, it’s old drugs story! This situation has been associated to clubs but it clearly has nothing to do with them!
2. There is no product variety in Madrid. This is again bullshit spreading online. In reality the quality of the products sold in the cannabis social clubs in Madrid is excellent and has nothing to envy to the products available in other cities. In the clubs you can find different varieties of flowers produced by Spanish farmers with extreme care. You can also find extracts, essences, dyeing products and many more things… Nothing is missing!

Much easier than you imagine:

1. The fear of running risks by joining a club. This is fake news circulating online and obviously there are no risks in joining a cannabis social club in Spain. This is because the possession and the personal use of cannabis is not a crime and will never be prosecuted. The maximum risk is being fined for a few hundreds euros if you get caught. Anyway, the story ends here and there are no imprisonments nor policemen with guns pointed at you, those things only happen in movies. If you want to learn more, read our guide here.
2. Is it hard to join a cannabis club in Madrid? This is probably the most interesting point. No, it isn’t hard at all: the minimum age required might differ from club to club (18 to 21 years old) but the rules are always the same. Both in Madrid and Barcelona you need to be referred by an already existing member, need the minimum age and bring with you an ID to prove it in order to enter the cannabis social clubs.

To conclude

There are many clubs in the Spanish capital and many of them are state-of-art. The rules are the same everywhere in Spain without distinction. The fake news circulating is of course false and many times completely opposite to reality.

What’s true is that in Madrid there are amazing clubs where you can enter and spend your time with other members and share the pleasure of smoking without problems, guaranteed!

Cannabis supply chain, the new business is just going up in flames?

Jul 6, 2019 | 0 comments

Cannabis supply chain, the new business is just going up in flames?

It’s agriculture, the cannabis farmers say. Definitely it is not magic or tricks: they plant a seed, they take care of it and let a harmless plant grow, a plant that is miraculously good for the health with all its benefits and collateral implications. Nowadays canapa is, or was (we’ll see what happens) realizing a little economic miracle, by offering the possibility of an employment to many people, mainly young, but also to many farmers who converted after seeing in canapa a way to have their work more recognised. If you think about the big companies that pay 10 cents per kilo to farmers for tomatoes, you can understand that weed is more interesting given the same amount of effort and dedication.

This is to say that the situation is a little bit shit, that as usual was created in Italy and that is only bringing more issues and damages, harming the cannabis supply chain. The current situation is that both the farmers and the coffee shop owners are a little ass-tight because they do not know what to do, especially after having invested money for their dream of creating revenue that the State cannot guarantee. Forget about basic income, here we are talking about tens of employers who contribute to give new jobs with a substantial turnover.

Will a business doubling every year disappear?

This is the core of the story, does the State really want to erase a business that generates employment, income of 22% of VAT plus taxes, besides giving hope to many people? Is it even possible nowadays that people are so dumb to forbid cannabis with a THC percentage of 0.5%? Whoever wants this is definitely mentally unstable and does not even take into account the healing benefits of marijuana, now accepted and recommended by many doctors. This represent a big problem for thousands of Italians who few years ago saw in marijuana the opportunity of employment and of a future.

There are many intertwined dynamics that somehow are going towards an improvement of the society. Yes, because smoking weed legally, or in a controlled way by the government, has a huge impact on illegal drug dealing as well. It strongly hits criminality too, the one that gains from the prohibition of cannabis and that does not pay taxes. Actually, illegal revenues create even more illegality, which goes against the innocent canapa with a mere THC level of 0.5%.

Obviously not seeing this equals to being culturally blind or in bad faith, which makes us think really badly about the real motives. Anyway, let’s think positive because thinking that institutions might take measures against light canapa to favour the illegal marijuana gives us the shivers. Better not to think about it.

Why supporting the supply chain of cannabis

First of all, because it would be a sacred principle of freedom, then because there is nothing dangerous about canapa that does not contain any active substances. Could essences, oils, perfumes, flour ever represent a threat to health or public order? We are talking about natural products, most of the times coming from bio farming and extremely controlled. Shall we check for all the chemicals similar products from traditional supply chains contain? At this point is really hard and complex to understand all the mess that is being created around the cannabis supply chain, plus we are immersed in a huge paradox because those activities linked to the commercialization of canapa, now under constant scrutiny, have been authorized by the State.

If they become illegal today, the State has violated the “law” given that it authorised its sale and commercialization before. This is the usual “Dantesque” Underworld crackdown in a country that struggles more and more to find a little bit of normality, peace and cultural rebirth. For all these reasons, a functioning mind finds it hard to understand all this unjustified mess, justified only by the absolute ignorance of who is leading this non-sense battle. In the next following weeks we should get some news on the direction this story should take and of course we hope in collective awareness. In the meantime, farmers will be standing still, coffee shops will be closed and thousands of people will be scared of losing their job or enterprise. Do you think this is a normal country?

Institutions should support, not forbid

Once said that the level of the active substance contained in canapa is in a small and harmless percentage, there is no reason for fines, bans or restrictions on the products. The cannabis supply chain is controlled since its source, directly in the fields up until the coffee shops counters. The possibility of being “outlaw” is basically null; actually, to be precise, the business in its entirety largely contributes to legality. This legality occurs also with the fight against the undergrowth of illegal drug dealing to minors, the real plague of illegal marijuana. Young people represent the vulnerable part of the society that can be easily manipulated and induced towards other substances, obviously for the interests of whoever deals drugs.

Thanks to the cannabis supply chain and the legal distribution of the product, regulated by the State, all the illegal trafficking disappears like snow in the sun. It is definitely easier and more socially acceptable going to coffee shops rather than to the parks where pushers sell without any rules. We are creating a world without all the filth we have seen and that we know and we really cannot understand why people want to go back at all costs.

It does not make any sense. In the meantime, light canapa producers are waiting with bated breath and do not know what is going to happen, and definitely this is not a situation a developed and civilized country should face.

Whoever makes the law should try to empathise and try to put themselves in the shoes of the people who made a lot of sacrifices and who are investing everything to create a job opportunity. Unfortunately this is hard to understand for the people seating in the Parliament, who decide the country’s fate therefore allowing all our hopes to go up in flames.