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The Ministry of Health of Spain has prohibited the sale and distribution of sweets containing cannabis.
The new regulations update a 1977 law relating to psychotropic substances, and medicinal preparations that are related. It now includes substances commonly found in cannabis edibles.
Sweets do not contain THC – the main component of cannabis – but semi-synthetic compounds that have similar or stronger effects.
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This is why the Health Ministry has moved to classify them as cannabinoids without authorised medical use, and subject to certain ‘control mechanisms’.
Earlier this month, the Clinical Toxicology Unit at Barcelona’s Hospital Clínic reported that cases of poisoning linked to cannabis-infused sweets have doubled in the past two years, with 24 cases recorded in 2024 alone.
The hospital raised concerns about the lack of regulation of these lab-modified sweets, which are being sold legally.
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The new regulation from the Health Ministry is designed to close this regulatory gap.
Barcelona’s City Council has already announced it will intensify its inspections of establishments in order to prevent the sales of cannabis sweets.
Barcelona’s mayor has issued a decree that seeks to identify, punish and prohibit the sale of cannabis-infused sweets.
