alflud
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For what it's worth, it's the Basque region that's the hemp heaven. I've been to Bilbao, Mundaka and then San Sebastian and in all three places found the best of weed. No rip offs, friendly people and also smoking in public. In Mundaka we we're not only given some class weed for free we were also even smoking in the bars at night - lots of surfers, chilled out, no problems. Honestly some of the friendliest people I've ever met.
I heard a story from one of the locals there that the police had raided a grow-op greenhouse and taken all the plants. They hauled the folk who ran it to court where the judge ended up telling the police to give back everything they'd taken - including the plants
I forget the name of the place now but I did check this out on the net when I returned home (2007) and I definitely did find a story about it too. I remember reading that it was 14/15 people, all working in full time jobs, told the judge that they came together so they could afford the rent of the land and the building of the greenhouse to grow it for their own use. The bottom line is the Judge saw no problem with that.
Anyway I'm uploading a pic too that I took in a park in Bilbao. It's a pic of some guys sitting on a bench and rolling up. It's cool as fuk I remember thinking "holy shit man, I wish the rest of the world was like this. This is better than Holland." There they were, not a worry in the world. People walking around everywhere and not paying the slightest bit of attention. Another thing I thought was very cool - the lighters. You can only buy lighters in tobacco shops or out of vending machines in the street but the funny thing was that every single lighter - no matter where you bought it - had some hemp related logo on it. Even people who only smoked cigarettes were using lighters with MJ motifs on them, y'know? It was like an overt promotion of it. Also, in the vending machines in the street, beside the lighters slot was a rizla slot Wicked!!!
The thing is though - if the Basque people hear you calling it Spain they'll flip. It is - officially - but they don't like it one little bit. It's Basque and they speak Basquez - it's not Spain and they don't speak Spanish. I found that out the hard way I think they'd just do anything to be different to Spain and that's why it's the way it is lol Once you understand these things though - it's really quite cool and don't get the wrong idea folks - I've met plenty of folk there from both Madrid and Barcelona. The people from the Basque have no problem with folk from Spain - just once you don't got a Spanish tattoo or go waving a Spanish flag around 
Anyways - here's that pic.
I heard a story from one of the locals there that the police had raided a grow-op greenhouse and taken all the plants. They hauled the folk who ran it to court where the judge ended up telling the police to give back everything they'd taken - including the plants
I forget the name of the place now but I did check this out on the net when I returned home (2007) and I definitely did find a story about it too. I remember reading that it was 14/15 people, all working in full time jobs, told the judge that they came together so they could afford the rent of the land and the building of the greenhouse to grow it for their own use. The bottom line is the Judge saw no problem with that. Anyway I'm uploading a pic too that I took in a park in Bilbao. It's a pic of some guys sitting on a bench and rolling up. It's cool as fuk
I remember thinking "holy shit man, I wish the rest of the world was like this. This is better than Holland." There they were, not a worry in the world. People walking around everywhere and not paying the slightest bit of attention. Another thing I thought was very cool - the lighters. You can only buy lighters in tobacco shops or out of vending machines in the street but the funny thing was that every single lighter - no matter where you bought it - had some hemp related logo on it. Even people who only smoked cigarettes were using lighters with MJ motifs on them, y'know? It was like an overt promotion of it. Also, in the vending machines in the street, beside the lighters slot was a rizla slot Wicked!!!The thing is though - if the Basque people hear you calling it Spain they'll flip. It is - officially - but they don't like it one little bit. It's Basque and they speak Basquez - it's not Spain and they don't speak Spanish. I found that out the hard way
I think they'd just do anything to be different to Spain and that's why it's the way it is lol Once you understand these things though - it's really quite cool and don't get the wrong idea folks - I've met plenty of folk there from both Madrid and Barcelona. The people from the Basque have no problem with folk from Spain - just once you don't got a Spanish tattoo or go waving a Spanish flag around Anyways - here's that pic.
Even though that wave in Mundaka almost fucking drowned me I still think it's one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen 
