Living on this coast all year isn't the same as a week by the sea. You have a routine, neighbours you see every day, perhaps a job and a car. Cannabis club membership is an ongoing commitment, with rules you agree to and keep.

This guide is for residents. It explains what membership of Honey Weed Club, a private, non-profit cannabis association in Benalmádena, involves day to day: who can apply, which documents to bring, what happens to your details, the rules you agree to, and how the law applies outside the club.

Who can apply

Membership is for adults aged 18 and over, with their original identity document. You apply in your own name, with an original photo ID (a national ID card, a passport or a driving licence). The association reviews each application.

You can start your application on WhatsApp or by email. Registration itself is completed in person, at the club (Av. Antonio Machado, 25), with your original ID.

When you live nearby, there's no need to rush. You can ask your questions first, read the club rules and come along when you're ready.

One thing membership isn't: a medical service. Since 10 October 2025, Royal Decree 903/2025 has set the conditions for standardised cannabis preparations used as medicines: only specialist doctors working in hospital care can prescribe them, and hospital pharmacy services prepare and supply them. The decree doesn't mention cannabis associations. If you have questions about a health condition, speak to your doctor.

Which documents to bring

Accepted documents: any official photo ID, such as a national ID card, a passport or a driving licence. We need to see the original.

Whichever document you use, bring the original with you: not a photo on your phone, and not a photocopy.

When you live here, you may have more than one document in the drawer: a passport, a Spanish residence document, an identity card from your own country, a driving licence. Any of them will do, as long as it's official, has your photo and is the original. If you're not sure, ask us on WhatsApp.

Please don't send us photos of your identity document on WhatsApp. Bring the original to the club instead.

Documents expire and get renewed, and people who settle here sometimes swap one for another. If yours changes after you've joined, ask us what we need from you.

Membership is personal

If your application is accepted, the membership is yours alone. It can't be shared, lent or transferred.

That matters more when you live here, because people come to see you. Family in the summer, friends from home at half-term, a neighbour who's curious: none of them can come in with you as your guest. Only members come into the club.

If your partner or a neighbour has questions about membership, they can ask us themselves.

Your data and your privacy

Privacy feels different when you live in a town. You see the same faces at the market and on the avenue, and you'd rather decide for yourself who knows what about you.

To manage its membership, the association keeps a register of its members, with your name and surname, ID number, date of birth, signature and email address. It keeps them while you're a member and for one year after you leave, unless the law requires them to be kept for longer.

Your details are used to manage your membership and to meet the association's legal obligations, and for nothing else. We don't share who our members are, unless the law obliges us to.

We respect our members' privacy, and we ask every member to do the same.

Our Privacy policy explains it in full: what the association keeps, why, for how long, and your rights over your details, such as asking for a copy or for a correction.

The rules you agree to

Every member reads the club rules and agrees to them when joining. The complete rules are always at reception, and they apply to everyone, every visit. The basics are short:

  • 18 and over. Every member is an adult.
  • Original ID. You need your original identity document.
  • Members only. Honey is a private, non-profit association, not open to the public.
  • On the premises only. Consumption is limited to the club itself.

When you live near the club, the rules aren't something you read once and forget. They're how Honey stays a good neighbour on Avenida Antonio Machado: members come and go without fuss, and nothing is consumed outside. It's a club for adults, not a night out.

If anything in the rules isn't clear, ask. Understanding them is part of joining. Read the club rules, or find out more about the club.

Living here: the law outside the club

Being a member doesn't change the law. Outside the club, Spanish law applies to members like everyone else, and when you live here, that's every day of the year.

Public places

Spain's public safety law (Organic Law 4/2015, Article 36.16) treats using or carrying illegal drugs in public places, on public roads, in public establishments or on public transport as a serious administrative offence, even when they're not intended for trafficking.

For people who live here, that covers the everyday places: the street outside your building, the promenade, the beach, a bar terrace, the bus and the train. An administrative offence isn't a crime, but it can lead to a fine (Article 39).

For more on public places in Benalmádena, from the beach to Puerto Marina, read our guide Is weed legal in Benalmádena? For the national picture, read Is weed legal in Spain?

If you run a business

Plenty of people who live on the coast run a bar, a restaurant or a hotel. Under the same law, owners, managers or people in charge of public premises or establishments who allow drug use there, or don't take reasonable care to prevent it, also commit a serious administrative offence (Article 36.19).

Driving

Living here usually means driving: to work, up to the Pueblo, along the coast to Málaga. Spain's traffic law (Royal Legislative Decree 6/2015, Article 14.1) bans driving with drugs present in the body. It's about presence, not only about feeling the effects. The only exception is medicines taken on prescription for therapeutic purposes, when the driver is still fit to drive.

Police test for drugs with a saliva sample (Article 14.3), and driving under the influence of drugs is also a criminal offence in its own right (Criminal Code, Article 379.2).

If you've used cannabis, don't drive. For everyday trips, the train and the buses run along the coast, and there are taxis.

Questions? Ask us

Living nearby means you don't have to work it all out from a website. Ask us on WhatsApp about anything you'd like to know before you come: which document to bring, how the application goes, what the rules ask of you.

Honey is open all year, not just in the summer months. Opening hours, the map, and train and bus details are on our Visit page. For the full steps, see how membership works.

Live nearby and have questions? Ask us on WhatsApp.

Sources

All sources are official Spanish documents, in Spanish.

This is general information about Spanish law, not legal advice. Laws and court rulings change. For your own situation, please speak to a qualified lawyer.

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