The World Marijuana March celebrates its 25th anniversary in Spain with a demonstration that in its last edition brought together thousands of people to demand the legalization of all uses of marijuana and the end of the persecution of the sector. A few meters from the Congress of Deputies, where a subcommittee is studying the possible regulation of the medicinal use of cannabis, the World Marijuana March, which has been held for 25 years in Spain, will start this Saturday. In the last call for this street demonstration, before the pandemic, more than 40,000 people gathered, according to the
The World Marijuana March celebrates its 25th anniversary in Spain with a demonstration that in its last edition brought together thousands of people to demand the legalization of all uses of marijuana and the end of the persecution of the sector. A few meters from the Congress of Deputies, where a subcommittee is studying the possible regulation of the medicinal use of cannabis, the World Marijuana March, which has been held for 25 years in Spain, will start this Saturday. In the last call for this street demonstration, before the pandemic, more than 40,000 people gathered, according to the organizers, who hope to increase participation this year to demand a comprehensive cannabis law and denounce the repression against the sector. This demonstration, as demanding as it is festive, arose in Madrid even before it was given the title of World Cup and began to be celebrated every year in dozens of countries. It was the Madrid Association of Cannabis Studies (AMEC) that convened the first concentration in 1997, on that occasion to protest against the sanctions imposed by the Citizen Security Law – then called the Corcuera Law by the Minister of the Interior who promoted it. – Marijuana consumers for the use or possession of drugs on public roads. Added to this malaise was, in addition, a sentence condemning those responsible for what is considered the first cannabis association in Spain, the ARSEC in Barcelona. The president of AMEC, Fernando Aranaz, Lucky, believes that the situation of cannabis and the social movement that defends the regulation of its use has evolved a lot since that first demonstration 25 years ago. "The social movement -he says- is very consolidated. And public opinion is on our side, because it knows that prohibition only leads to creating more problems and that the State should get involved in the matter, because the war on drugs only benefits to the drug dealers."
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