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A COURT ruling in Spain’s Murcia region has highlighted how local authorities are using a ‘stoner tax’ to fill their coffers by fining dope smokers caught with miniscule amounts disproportionate penalties writes Conor Patrick Faulkner.
The recent ruling by Murcia’s Administrative Court No. 7 confirmed a decision from January of last year that concluded local ayuntamientos lack the authority to issue fines for public drug possession.
Legal experts told the Olive Press that the ruling paves the way for thousands of disproportionate penalties for cannabis possession to be overturned across Spain.