Uruguay legalised cannabis outright in 2013, before anywhere else, and licenses the clubs through a state regulator — so this list comes straight from IRCCA rather than being assembled from registries and business listings the way Spain's is. Every club below holds a licence that was valid when the register was last read.
What this list does not cover
IRCCA publishes each club's department and nothing finer — no street, no town. So no Uruguayan club here has an address or a map pin, and none is inferred: a location we cannot confirm is not published. What the register does give is the licence date and, for about a third of them, the contact address the club itself supplied for public enquiries.
How the law works here
Uruguay legalised cannabis in 2013 under Ley 19.172 — the first country to do so — and membership clubs are one of three lawful routes, alongside pharmacy sales and home growing. Clubs hold a licence from IRCCA, the state regulator, are capped at 15 to 45 members and 99 plants, and are non-profit. This is a legal framework, not a tolerated one, and not retail.
Members only, 18 or over, and Uruguayan citizens or legal residents only, registered with IRCCA. Tourists and other non-residents cannot join a club, cannot buy at a pharmacy, and cannot be signed in by a member — the restriction is in the law itself, not club policy.
Instituto de Regulación y Control del Cannabis (IRCCA)