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Germany announces plan to legalise cannabis for recreational use

Minister says legalisation could set precedent for rest of Europe, though plan is still subject to EU approval

Philip Oltermann in Berlin

Wed 26 Oct 2022 14.52 BST

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/26/germany-to-legalise-cannabis-for-recreational-use

 

Germany wants to make it legal for adults to purchase and own up to 30g of cannabis for recreational use and to privately grow up to three plants, the country’s health minister has announced, saying the intended outcome could set a precedent for the rest of the European continent.

“If this law comes to pass, it would be the most liberal project to legalise cannabis in Europe, but also the most regulated market”, the Karl Lauterbach said at a press conference in Berlin on Wednesday. “It could be a model for Europe.”

The overriding goal of making it legal to buy and smoke cannabis in Germany, the Social Democrat politician said, was to better protect young people, who were already consuming the drug in increasing numbers after obtaining it on the black market.

“We don’t want to expand cannabis consumption but to improve the protection of youth and health,” Lauterbach said. With about 4 million people in Germany having tried cannabis at least once over the last 12 months, he added, the current prohibitive model “isn’t working”.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition announced its intention to legalise cannabis for recreational use when it took office at the end of the year, but progress on a law has been slowed down by fears that such a step could contravene EU law and international treaties.

In the hope of minimising the risk of a cannabis law being challenged by European courts at a later stage, Germany is planning to submit an outline of its plans to the European Commission this week and seek an opinion.

If the commission made it unequivocally clear that the German model was not compatible with EU law, Lauterbach said, the government would not try to proceed to legalise cannabis on that basis. If Brussels gave it the green light, he said, a draft law would be presented in the first quarter of 2023.

The outline of the plans foresees it becoming legal to purchase and possess a maximum amount of 20g to 30g of cannabis for recreational use, and to consume it in private or in public. Privately growing up to three plants would also become legal.

Lauterbach said a legalisation of cannabis edibles, such as gums or baked goods, was still being looked into but was unlikely, as was the introduction of a general upper limit on the content of THC, the main psychedelic constituent of cannabis. An upper THC limit for 18- to 23-year-olds, however, is considered likely.

Advertising cannabis products would be banned. “A general ban on advertising recreational cannabis applies,” the outline document says. “Recreational cannabis is sold with (neutral) outer packaging without advertising design.”

The sale of cannabis products would likely take place in licensed establishments such as pharmacies, though the association of German pharmacists has spoken out against legalising the drug, warning this week it could be forced into competition with other commercial providers.

Lauterbach said the German path to legalising cannabis ran counter to that of the Netherlands, which technically still criminalises the growth and sale of the drug.

The Dutch model, Germany’s health minister said, had “combined two disadvantages: liberal use but not a controlled market”. “What we have learned from the Dutch experience is that we don’t want to do it that way”, he added. “We want to control the entire market.”

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/26/germany-to-legalise-cannabis-for-recreational-use

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The Czech Republic Plans To Legalize Cannabis In Coordination With Germany

Dario Sabaghi

Contributor

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dariosabaghi/2022/11/04/the-czech-republic-plans-to-legalize-cannabis-in-coordination-with-germany/?sh=f42b28077e46

 

The Czech Republic is on the way to legalizing adult-use cannabis, and it aims to coordinate with Germany to share information and the best practices to regulate the legal industry.

Following Germany's announcement to legalize cannabis, the Czech Republic has just started to embark on the journey toward cannabis legalization, aiming to harmonize its legislation with Berlin.

The Czech coalition government is drafting a bill to regulate the industry, which is expected to be presented in March 2023, while full legalization may be entered into effect by January 2024.

In September, the government commissioned drug commissioner Jindřich Vobořil to draft a law to legalize adult-use cannabis.

Vobořil announced that Czech officials are in contact with the German government to coordinate and consult each other over their proposals.

"We are in contact with our German colleagues, and we have repeatedly confirmed that we want to coordinate by consulting each other on our proposals," he said in a Facebook post.

The Czech Republic is considered one of the most liberal countries regarding cannabis legislation.

Although its recreational use is still illegal, it decriminalized cannabis possession for personal use in 2010 and legalized medical cannabis in 2013.

In addition, the Czech Republic is one of the few European countries that cultivate hemp with a THC content of up to 1% for industrial purposes. In comparison, other EU member state legislations have set the limit to about 0.2%, although the European Union recently decided to increase the THC level from 0.2% to 0.3% for authorized hemp crops used for industrial purposes.

Hence, the regulation of the recreational market appears to be a natural path to follow for a country in which about 30% of the adults have tried cannabis, and 8% to 9% use it regularly, according to the Addiction Report released in August by the National Monitoring Center on Drugs and Addiction (NMS).

Despite the decriminalization for personal use, the illegal market still thrives because no legal production has been established, and the supply chain lacks quality control and control of sales to young people under 18.

Some experts believe that legalization has the potential to generate significant revenues from cannabis consumption taxation, taking into consideration that there are about 800,000 active cannabis users in the country.

According to the Czech Pirate Party, the smallest political group inside the government coalition and one of the most prominent cannabis advocates in the country, cannabis products could generate about €800 million ($782 million) in tax revenue annually.

Furthermore, the government's National Economic Council (NERV) suggests that regulating the legal cannabis industry would help the Czech Republic to fight high public budget deficits.

In an interview with a local news media outlet, Vobořil said that cannabis would be sold in selected pharmacies upon a license's authorization and likely in licensed dispensaries.

Furthermore, municipalities should have the opportunity to decide whether allow or ban cannabis stores.

Although it is still unclear how practically Czech Republic and Germany would coordinate with each other and what effects the cooperation can produce in the respective legislations, Vobořil aims to establish a cannabis social club's model for Czech consumers, widely used in Spain.

"My colleagues in Germany are talking about permitted quantities, and they don't have the cannabis clubs that we foresee. I certainly want to hold the cannabis clubs until my last breath. This model seems very useful to me, at least for the first few years," he wrote on Facebook.

Vobořil also wishes to start a trade partnership with Germany to supply each other, although Berlin's plan to legalize adult-use cannabis would exclude imports of cannabis products.

In an interview with the German public, state-owned international broadcaster Deutsche Welle, Vobořil, explained that he would "try to ensure that as little cannabis as possible is consumed through conventional smoking because that is most damaging to health."

This would suggest that the government might start a campaign to advise cannabis users to consume cannabis through vaporizers or other methods.

Germany's announcement of its plans to legalize adult-use cannabis has already produced significant effects in Europe as it brought back the debate over cannabis legalization and has pushed the Czech Republic to plan to regulate the legal market within a specific timeframe.

At first glance, the Czech's approach to cannabis legalization seems an attempt to follow up a joint meeting held in June between Germany, Luxembourg, Malta, and the Netherlands to discuss the possibility of establishing a structured multilateral exchange to share knowledge, best practices, and experiences to regulate the legal industry.

Representatives of the Czech Republic's Presidency of the Council of the European Union were also reportedly present at the meeting.

Except for Malta, which became the first EU country to legalize adult-use cannabis and cultivation for personal use in late 2021, these countries are working to regulate cannabis, adopting different grades of legalization.

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dariosabaghi/2022/11/04/the-czech-republic-plans-to-legalize-cannabis-in-coordination-with-germany/?sh=f42b28077e46

[Rubin Farr]

 

[diatoms]

                                           green luck to missouri, arkansas, maryland, north dakota & south dakota

[diatoms]

                                                          missouri & maryland take a puff

                                  21 states now where it's legal for adults to consume cannabis                                                

[Rubin Farr]

 

[Rubin Farr]

Oregon Governor pardons 45,000 cannabis convictions:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/oregon-gov-kate-brown-pardons-073035144.html

[Rubin Farr]

Connecticut  

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[Rubin Farr]

Moses knew how to party

https://merryjane.com/amp/bible-moses-israelites-cannabis

 

[Rubin Farr]

Happy bomb cyclone 

[Rubin Farr]

First dispensaries open in New York

https://www.yahoo.com/news/york-opens-first-legal-cannabis-192330455.html

[diatoms]

On 12/19/2022 at 2:58 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Moses knew how to party

https://merryjane.com/amp/bible-moses-israelites-cannabis

 

                                                      Thanks for the link lots of interesting info:)

 

17 hours ago, Rubin Farr said:

First dispensaries open in New York

https://www.yahoo.com/news/york-opens-first-legal-cannabis-192330455.html

                      

                                                                       Wild Times in NYC!

                                                              walk into a store, pay cash and get your flower:)

                                          no one can be searched/arrested by cannabis smell/personal possession on the street

                                                    and cannabis is still schedule I under federal law

                               with the un single convention on narcotic drugs, 1961 which has been signed by 186 countries

                                                      right there in manhattan

                                                               cannabis world change in 2023 i think

[Rubin Farr]

Fucking Stacy. 

[iococoi]

[Rubin Farr]

DEA moves Delta-8 and Delta-9THCO to Schedule I:

https://www.kiplinger.com/investing/stocks/delta-8-and-9-thco-classified-as-schedule-i-drugs-this-week-in-cannabis-investing

[huzur]

Not sure if anyone cares, but on the 1st of January I quit the ganja after 17+ years of daily usage.
My creativity has gone down the drain, and I expect it to slowly return. Other than that, it seems to be the best decision I've taken since times immemorial, since it allowed me to start doing all types of shit I was too lazy to do before (like Brazilian Jiu Jitsu)

[cruising for burgers]

[TubularCorporation]

There's a push to legalize recreational psylocibin getting in gear now where I am.

 

Since they legalized recreational cannabis last December it seems like half the people I know are getting multiple ounces for free.

Edited March 11, 2023 by TubularCorporation

[luke viia]

On 3/10/2023 at 8:22 PM, cruising for burgers said:

christ almighty yes that is intense. last fall i quit smoking after 20+ years of near daily use and for almost a month solid my mind bombarded me with vivid symbolically rich dreams and nightmares. then i started smoking again for a few months. then i quit again. same thing. my dreams this week have been off the goddamn rails. i try to write them down so i don't forget, but sometimes i forget to do the thing to not forget

[ManjuShri]

 

[logakght]

Smoking weed right now yo.

[iococoi]

 

[Rubin Farr]

Indica gummie this morning