https://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2024/02/21/germany-finally-legalizing-cannabis-watered-down-law-to-pass-this-week-and-take-effect-in-april/

So if I understand this correctly, possession is changing from decriminalised up to 5 grams, to legal up to 25 grams in public. But the sales, outside of “cannabis clubs” is still illegal, and even then it’s only non commercial sale within the club?

It sounds like a step in the direction of legalising it, but without any tax revenue, and doing nothing about the black market.

Why not just make sales legal, regulated and taxed? It would be less money to the organised crime, and more money to the budget of the country, with no downside?

by HorseCabbage

7 comments

  1. > Why not just make sales legal, regulated and taxed?

    The tl;dr is: Current EU law

  2. Any actual *sale* of cannabis would conflict with EU law. The clubs achieve a completely legal supply chain without a single “sale” by the legal definition.

    >possession is changing from decriminalised up to 5 grams, to legal up to 25 grams in public.

    50g at home. The 25g isn’t necessarily about in public, it’s just the amount you can carry around anywhere else.

  3. You can grow your own so that’s what we should be doig

  4. >possession is changing from decriminalised up to 5 grams,

    I dont really see where you got the “decriminalised up to 5g” from. it is not decriminalised anywhere in germany. There are some cities and federal states, which ordered there prosecutores to drop small charges, but that is not the norm. Depending on the state and city you are in you could be in trouble even with just one gram.

  5. They wanted to do full recreational cannabis, but it’s not possible due to EU law. Think about it a little like medical in some US states.

    Some states w by with a caregiver system rather than full rec or similar.

    The clubs are the same.

  6. they follow the flawed let’s half legalize it model, such that only criminal gangs will make money and set up shop because they are the best at operating at the edge of the law and in thse gray areas. No chance for honest regular citizens. Then, in 10 -20 years they’ll wonder how come the drug dealing gangs are so powerful.

  7. Everyone is calling it ‘legalisation’ but it surely just seems to be decriminalisation and nothing more. Anyone who wants to smoke a joint still has to go to the same places (dealers in the park, or you know a dealer). The dealers are still breaking the law.

    We have no idea what the cannabis clubs are going to look like, how much they will cost to join, how hard they will be to join. It seems like this law only helps people who already smoke a lot of weed, by giving them one less reason to be paranoid.

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