In Spain it is illegal to smoke marijuana in public. However, many have discovered that it's perfect legal to smoke it in private. Thus a new type of cannabis club has been filling this gap in the cannabis social scene. For about 120 Euros a year, a person can join a private club where one can smoke cannabis, have drinks, maybe food and even purchase cannabis for home use. It's still illegal to transport cannabis in Spain, and people get fined for doing so. They still have to work out the supply chain, as growing more than a few plants for personal use is illegal. Most of these clubs are growing their own or buying from growers they know. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/28/cannabis-clubs-spanish-drug-laws
I think this is a great way to deal with a lot of issues caused by cannabis being illegal still, even in liberal Spain. I'd like to see something similar happen in California soon. I know we have something close to this, and of course every mmj dispensary is considered a "club", but this has nothing to do with medical. In Spain it's legal for everyone to smoke in private, unlike in the USA. As soon as something like this is legal in the US, I will be opening a private club/restaurant...
A private club is *always* ok, if you can keep it private. If you have the trust of the members. The problem is people do not trust each other. They don't known grace/equity/trust different name, same thing. Thus, the only action left 4them is the at-law, legal (losing/dead/heartless) realm. Statutes/Codes are for dead entities and fictions tho, not for people. & Those that know the conciousness of the creator do not need 10 commandments. at best they only point the way... europe & such: There is a stronger inter-people knowledge of privacy on many places on the european continent, among the greeks for instance, who very often operate as if the government entity doesn't exist. The 'governments' are very often seen for what they are, and it's true almost all over the world: third-party interlopers which for a long time only act on behest of the bankers that own them, using their dumb agents e.g. the police. All of them are listed on DnB (Dunn & Bradstreets, a commercial listing index of corporations), run as for-profit trading corporations... guess what they trade in? Yeup, the asset side of the birth certificate account, i.e. people, who are mostly clueless cattle to them. 'Agricultural high-yield investments'. what's a matter with americans?: The prob with patriotards is they refuse to c the USA is in the same set-up. So u are completely free to form a private club & smoke, just like the heads of the rockefeller & related houses formed private trusts to create giant monopolies, (again backed by particular bankers), and continue to operate in this fashion today behind closed doors. Of course it's illegal, but that doesn't matter, because legal/illegal only apply to the public, not the private. Law is broad field, legal/illegal is only one type. & People are not 'the public', they are private. Unless they are clueless and claim to be - who am I to argue? Another example: patri-idiots 'I love the Pope', yes = Patri = Pope, 'ot' Oath. Either generally people work directly for the USA and are employees and don't realize it and don't realize the separation between public and private, or they claim to be 'patriots', and thus work for the Pope who is a proxy for the bankers, who owns the USA. So either way they work for the same evil-looking illuminist freemason. Yes: It's Very dangerous to invite the brainwashed imprinted clueless cattle into your private club 2 smoke. As your non-attorney, I advise against it. Sample questionnaire: Are you a member of the public? Do you consider yourself a patriot? Name another form of law that exists besides legal/illegal? What is the law-form of non-fiction, non-dead, living people? What is the basis of all relationships?
That's why so many clubs and organizations require membership and initiation to join and participate. When you join one of these "exclusive" clubs, you enter a secret society where no one reveals to the "public" what happens in "private". So illegal activities can flourish under the cloak of secrecy provided by "private clubs", as you say, so long as no one breaks the bond of trust. But this article is saying what these clubs do is perfectly legal, up to selling cannabis. Then it gets gray...
Does one not need to fear cannabis use then becoming some private thing, only for those who can and do join some club? Will it become some country club/boys club type of thing where a select few develop some sort of exclusivity in order to create a small, business type place that they run and decide who joins or who doesn't join given they're willing to pay a fee. Would those who run the club and those who are members be excluded from legal prosecution while those outside the club who enjoy using cannabis are not? "In Spain it's legal for everyone to smoke in private, unlike in the USA." That part I agree with. A club, I don't. Edit: If the clubs are the cannabis equivalent of a bar or pub, fine. However I don't see why one should have to pay an annual fee to join.