Cannadouro launches Hemp Guide for Portugal and Galicia

Cannadouro – Porto International Hemp Fair, has just launched the Portugal and Galicia Hemp Guide, in order to promote quick access to the contacts of all players in the cannabis and hemp sector along the western Atlantic coast of the Peninsula Iberian. The guide, which is free to access, lists associations, grow-shops, CBD stores, medical cannabis companies, industrial hemp and Media, among others.

João Carvalho, who founded the Porto International Hemp Fair in 2017, in partnership with Alberto Pires, and is also the director of Cannadouro Magazine, places special emphasis on grow-shops. “Of all the different sectors of activity, we have to highlight the grow-shops, which have existed in Portugal for over 20 years and have been authentic bastions in the fight for legalization, by providing their customers with the knowledge and tools to carry out the simple act of civil disobedience to the prohibitionist system, self-cultivation”, he says. “It will be easy to imagine the impact on the national economy when cannabis is fully legalized in Portugal”, he continued, speaking to Cannareporter.

Cannadouro holds the 18th edition of the International Hemp Fair on the 19th and 2023th of November 6 and the magazine, Cannadouro Magazine, is now starting its 3rd year of existence, with issue 9 on newsstands already next week. This issue is dedicated to Cannabis in Veterinary Medicine and features in-depth articles on the use of cannabis in animals and interviews with veterinarians.

Guide from north to south, not forgetting “our brothers” in Galicia
“In order to continue innovating and to make the cannabis market in Portugal grow, this year we decided to create a new project, the Hemp Guide for Portugal and Galicia” said João Carvalho to Cannareporter.

“We know that the legalization of cannabis in Europe is an unstoppable process and just a matter of time, similar to what is happening in other parts of the world, especially now that this step is about to be taken in Germany, which will start an effect dominoes of legalization across Europe,” he said.

The guide has hundreds of companies, organizations and institutions, which, according to João Carvalho, “show the contribution that cannabis already means to the national GDP”. Through this guide, professionals and consumers “can get closer to each other, in a cross-border logic”.

In the last Portuguese legislative elections, for the first time, 4 parties that presented the legalization of cannabis in their electoral programs, namely BE, IL, Livre and PAN, went to the polls. Recently, the top leader of the Socialist Youth (JS), Miguel Costa Matos, urged the Prime Minister to take advantage of the absolute majority of the PS government to legalize cannabis.

“The time has come for government officials to produce legislative changes that will make it possible to put an end to the injustices that blind prohibitionism has caused to companies, users and patients”, warns Carvalho.

The new Portugal and Galicia Hemp Guide can be consulted for free at  https://cannadouro.pt/guia. If you want to include your company in this Guide or if you detect any errors, please send an email to expo@cannadouro.pt.