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Germany Finally Legalizing Cannabis: Law To Pass This Week And Take Effect In April
21.02.2024 - 16:09 / forbes.com / April
In a first step toward a broader legalization of cannabis, and after long delays due to strong opposition from lawmakers in the ruling coalition, Germany is set to approve the decriminalizing of cannabis for recreational use by parliament on Friday, paving the way to take effect on April 1 (and not an April Fool’s Day joke).
The law, according to Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, will allow adults to cultivate as many as three plants for private consumption and carry up to 25 grams of the herb.
It also regulates the cultivation and consumption of marijuana at nonprofit cannabis social clubs limited to 500 members that would start in July. These associations will be allowed collective. non-commercial self-cultivation and to carry out controlled distribution of the cultivated cannabis among its members.
For those under 18, cannabis consumption will continue to be forbidden, while cannabis club members between 18 and 21 years old will only be allowed to purchase weed with a maximum THC content of 10% and only up to 30 grams per month.
Lauterbach, who has been leading the effort to pass the plan, explained during a radio interview on Tuesday that the government hopes that legalization will curb the black market, tackle drug-related crime and protect users against contaminated products.
Criminal dealers target children and young people “to get them addicted and then try to convert the users into other drugs,” he added. ‘We are taking an important step away from a failed cannabis policy.”
He used Canada’s example and cited studies to argue that the law will effectively remove two-thirds of the illegal market for cannabis and help to prevent toxic products being sold by dealers: “The likelihood that the black market for cannabis will significantly shrink is very high.”
The opposition counters that decriminalizing weed will be harmful to young people and increase the burden on police.
Currently, marijuana in Germany is legal in limited medical contexts and illegal for recreational use, although the possession of minor amounts is not always prosecuted.
Germany has one of the largest indoor cannabis farms in Europe, housed at a former slaughterhouse in the eastern countryside near Dresden. The German startup Demecan “is one of only a handful in Germany to have a license for the production of this ‘green gold’, which has been legal in Germany for medicinal use since 2017,” reports France 24.
Demecan's massive complex covers 120,000 square meters (1.3 million square feet) and produces one ton of cannabis a year. It has yet to reach full production capacity.
According to a study by the Heinrich Heine University in Duesseldorf, the recreational cannabis market in Germany could reach as high as €4 billion, or $4.2
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