Germany Will Legalize Marijuana And Promote Drug Harm Reduction, Governing Party Coalition Officially Announces – Marijuana Moment

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  2. they say that since 10 years (granted, this time it seems it isn’t just an empty election promiss). i believe it as soon as i smoke it.

  4. Firstly congrats, 420 brothers etc. Now please do hurry up as we tend to adopt your policies with a time difference of 5-10+ years afterwards.

  5. I hope this Progressive Policy takes hold in other less progressive nations ! is The SNP want to legalise Drugs & open safe places to inject with trained staff on hand but Johnson won’t allow it !

  8. After 16 years, the conservatives are finally, almost out of the government. Now follow through with it, and we can finally start walking forward again.

  15. I’m curious about the details. Like who can buy, where to buy, how much can you buy, what’s the max THC concentration for legal weed etc.

    I’m happy about this development. Laced weed is awful and dangerous. Legalization is the only way to prevent scammers to sell their bad stuff.

  16. I live in Washington State in the US. We legalized the taxed and controlled sales of cannabis to adults a number of years ago. There was obviously a lot of fierce opposition to this change but within a year or so, it became so obvious that none of the negative impacts (increased minor use, impacts on driving and public safety, “gateway drug” arguments, and so on) predicted by the prohibitionists were actually becoming reality that all political opposition to the change completely melted away within a year or so. And today there is no, zero, political will to go back to prohibition. The anti-cannabis lobbies have completely left the scene.

  17. can’t wait to hear from French Interior minister, who is using talking points from the US right wing circa 1950

  20. This isn’t accurate news. There is no pathway for legalization, since this isn’t allowed by EU law.

  22. Good on Germany. I’m so sick of my Government (Tories) and their backward stuck in the past way of thinking (or, maybe that’s the voters, because it’s more to do with money when it comes to the party…what I mean is, one of the top brass’s partner (if I recall it was TMs husband but I may be mistaken) grows and supplies (as in, one of the worlds largest) “medical” weed, and they are happy having that monopoly on it. Tories being hypocritical again.

    Honestly, it’s about time the world, or at least the west woke up to it. The war on drugs just isn’t working.

    If done legally it would at least stop _some_ of the gangs (you can argue they’d move on to something else but frankly, they’re likely to be doing multiple things anyway) and it would be much safer for the user. Proper coffee shops rather than meeting some dodgy dude in a back ally, or getting ripped off, or even having other substances cut with it (actually does happen). Not to mention, there’s less chance for users to get pushed into harder stuff.

    Also, think of the tax. I’m no economist and don’t know how it worked for other countries but money going to the state rather than criminals (okay, you can argue Tories are also criminals) is the better option in my opinion. The only thing is, I recall hearing in America they only allowed it because alcohol companies were given the logistics as I believe they originally lobbied against it, but giving them the contracts to transport it stopped them (it’s what I read, I can’t say it’s the truth) so it does mean a select few companies once again hold a monopoly.

    It gives jobs as well, especially for the lesser educated. And very _anecdotally_ all the Dutch people I knew IRL (for some reason, I had a lot of Dutch friends, even a girlfriend who’d fly to me every other week, that consisted of a 25 minute no hassle flight…thanks Brexit for taking that away) actually _didn’t_ smoke weed, while everyone here seemed to, so I always put that down to it not having the mystery around it, or youngsters doing it being rebellious (of _course_ plenty of Dutch do smoke it, I’m just saying I personally knew more Dutch that didn’t than people from my own country) I guess they are also better educated on it rather than “drugs bad, don’t do” and of course, telling a teenager not to do something always ends well.

    It would also free up police time being wasted on such trivial matters.

    TLDR

    I see very few downsides to it, as long as it’s done sensibly and educated upon. It just seems like too many wins not to _imo_ which, is why my government would never do it.

  31. Hopefully this will set a trend for the rest of Europe, Swedish parties are very much against legalization right now

  34. I live near the french border, now we will not only have thousends of french sex touirist now the drug tourist will also come and i don’t know what i think of that

  35. I wish the Netherlands would finally legalize. It’s beginning to annoy me we are actually starting to look bad here. We are beeing passed left and right with actual legalisation and decriminalisation of this fairly innocent drug.

    We used to have this reputation of not caring too much about this softdrug and beeing at the forefront of essentially creating social acceptance for it’s use. But we are to this day stuck in that system where’s it’s technically not allowed but it’s broadly ignored by authorities.

    So much in taxes that they continue to forego because some parties stuck in the sixties don’t want to formally legalize cultivation and use of what is already beeing widely used, for no other reason then it beeing a “drug” and therefore “bad mmkay”.

    In my Netherlands no drugs would get you in jail. I don’t care what you use. Substance abuse is a illness people need help with, not an offense they should be jailed for.

  38. there is one probleme. laws passing federal parliament in germany have to pass federal council, too. This council is dominated by CDU (10 out of 16 votes) which, with rightwing AfD, is the only represented party against legalization of cannabis. so legalization is not sure to happen.

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