The closest the Comunitat Valenciana ever came to regulating cannabis associations was a motion, in 2017, asking for a study. It passed. It changed nothing, and it could not have. Here is what actually applies to a club in Valencia. Law stated as at 21 August 2026.
The motion that was not a law
In June 2017 a proposición no de ley was registered in Les Corts Valencianes, pushed by the Fòrum Cannàbic Valencià and backed across four parliamentary groups, asking for a commission to study medical access and self-cultivation. A proposición no de ley is a political resolution. It creates no rights, imposes no duties, and licenses nothing.
Even if Les Corts had gone further, it would have failed. After STC 144/2017 struck down Navarra's law and STC 100/2018 struck down Catalonia's, no autonomous community may regulate the supply, dispensing or consumption of cannabis — that is State criminal competence. Only the Cortes Generales could act, and they have not.
The register that does matter — and what it does not prove
Valencian associations enter the Registro de Asociaciones de la Comunitat Valenciana, and police treat absence from it as a warning sign rather than treating presence as a licence. That distinction is the practical heart of it. Registration is declarative: it records that an association exists and publishes its statutes. It says nothing about cannabis.
The inverse, though, is informative. When a club in the province was closed in 2023, the reporting noted it had neither a municipal licence nor an entry in the regional register. A club that cannot show you either is telling you something.
What the Supreme Court settled
An adult may consume and possess cannabis in a private place. That is decriminalised, not legalised — no offence, but no right, and no lawful way to buy any. In STS 484/2015 the Supreme Court held in plenary that organised cultivation and distribution with a vocation of permanence, open to new members, is trafficking under article 368 of the Código Penal — not the shared private consumption the older doctrine covered. It has restated that ever since, most recently in STS 328/2025, which added the separate offence of unlawful association.
A membership fee does not change the analysis. Where the payment scales with the quantity taken away and the association controls nothing after that, the courts read a sale.
Invitations, waiting periods, and their actual weight
You will be asked for an existing member's endorsement, and told to wait before collecting anything. No Spanish law requires either. Both come from the associations' own code of good practice. They are a reasonable signal about how carefully a place is run, and they are not compliance with any instrument in force.
Outside the door, the rules change completely
Consuming or carrying cannabis in a street, on the Malvarrosa, in the Turia gardens or on a bus is a grave administrative infraction under article 36.16 of Ley Orgánica 4/2015, and the grave band runs from €601 to €30,000. It applies whether or not the cannabis was ever destined for anyone else. Russafa, El Carmen and Benimaclet are policed for it, as are Gandia, Sagunto and Torrent, and a membership card is not a defence one step past the association's own door. Our safety guidance covers the rest.
Falles is worth a separate thought. A street full of people is still a street.
What this directory is, and what it is not
This is an information directory. It lists associations across Valencia and its province, and it sells FastTrack: a club's address and contact details, delivered to you. It does not sell cannabis, it does not sell membership, and it cannot get you admitted anywhere. Start with the club search, the map, or the frequently asked questions.
A listing is information about a venue. It is not an endorsement, and it is not a statement that the venue operates lawfully.