Cannabis Social Clubs can be found in many countries, but the term often covers very different empirical realities. Inspired by the Spanish CSCs and
similarly taking advantage of a grey area in the Belgian cannabis legislation, Belgian cannabis activists set up the first Belgian CSC in 2006, and there are
now at least 5 Belgian CSCs. This paper’s main objective is to analyse the (internal) strengths and weaknesses and the (external) opportunities and
threats of the model, as it exists today
