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What do investors think Alacaliber's market share will Be??
has anyone even done any DD on the Cannabis market in Spain???
Does anyone know who is their competition ??
All questions investor should google before throwing their money and support at something that you may not know anything about.

One of the distinctive characteristics of cannabis in Spain is its cannabis clubs or associations, of which Spain has more than 800. A Spain Supreme Court decision essentially legalized these associations, and they are now pretty much everywhere — particularly in Catalonia and in the Basque Country. The idea is that consumption within these associations is “responsible” because the association controls the consumption and the age of its members. Nearly all of these associations set a minimum age for their members, restrict on-site consumption amounts, and require all consumption occur on association’s property. A notable difference from the U.S. is that Spain’s laws do not distinguish between recreational and medicinal use. Still, more people in Spain favor legalizing medical cannabis over recreational marijuana, and Spain’s criminal courts generally treat medical defendants more leniently than recreational defendants. For now though, people needing medicinal cannabis mostly go to cannabis clubs to obtain and use their medicine. Doctors in Spain are not allowed to prescribe cannabis to their patients, which is why patients who choose this route must join associations or seek out the illegal market.

These clubs got their start in Spain way back in 1993, when the pro-legalization group Asociación Ramón Santos de Estudios Sobre el Cannabis (based in Barcelona, of course) petitioned Barcelona’s drug prosecutor to confirm the legality of cannabis cultivation for consumption purposes by a collective of adults. The prosecutor opined that “collectives” are not illegal, and the group then began cultivating cannabis, oftentimes in front of the national media. Despite the prosecutor’s opinion, the police seized the group’s initial harvest and detained its members. A Court of Appeals acquitted those members but two years later, Spain’s Supreme Court ruled that though the cannabis the group produced was not intended for commercial purposes, cannabis cultivation by the collective was “undesirable” and should be penalized accordingly.

Other groups soon emerged to challenge this ruling and in 1997, Kalmudia Association, in Bilbao, successfully completed a marijuana harvest without facing any legal obstacles. In 2000, after completing three harvests without incident, the clubs began looking for a legal framework for their activities. Spain’s first cannabis social club, the Club de Catadores de Cannabis de Barcelona, was founded in 2001. From 2001 to 2003, Spain’s Supreme Court issued a number of rulings establishing that possession of even large amounts of cannabis was not a criminal offense unless there was an intent to traffic or sell the cannabis for profit. These Supreme Court rulings ultimately paved the way for Spain’s cannabis clubs

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