Spanish village to raise funds with marijuana

Subject: Spanish village to raise funds with marijuana Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:14 am

A tiny Spanish village has voted to lease land for growing marijuana as a source of desperately needed revenue - a unique but legally questionable way of battling an economic crisis highlighted by staggering unemployment and a looming recession.

A government official with the National Drug Plan said such planting would be illegal and prosecutors would intervene as soon as the first pot seed was sown.

The village of Rasquera, population 900 and in the northeastern Catalonia region, said its town hall councillors approved the plan on Wednesday night in a 4-3 vote.

Rasquera is a picturesque, compact hamlet of stone buildings at the foot of a mountain range in Tarragona province. It has a castle that dates back to the 12th century.

The Barcelona newspaper, La Vanguardia, says it is the kind of village that is dying - its young people leaving for lack of work, and those left behind desperate for some lure to keep people put.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/spanish-village-to-raise-funds-with-marijuana-20120302-1u6qq.html#ixzz1nwBIGQGR

Spanish village to raise funds with marijuana

Spanish village to raise funds with marijuana

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