#72 | With Karen Mamo & Andrew Bonello | Barcelona Special 2

In the second of two Barcelona specials we focus on Malta, the first European country to legalize cannabis. We welcome two Maltese in our Barcelona AirBnB studio who know more than anyone about cannabis in the island state: drug-policy researcher Karen Mamo and ReLeaf Malta chairman Andrew Bonello. This NGO plays a pivotal role in the reforms. Just before we recorded this episode, Karen started working for the Authority for the Responsible Use of Cannabis (ARUC), the Maltese government agency responsible for the legalization. We talk about their motivation, the ins and outs of the Maltese regulation and the cannabis social club study tour organized by ICEERS, that they followed in the days leading up to Spannabis 2023. If you want to know what’s really going on with cannabis on Malta, don’t miss this episode!