Germany plans to legalise recreational Cannabis.

[MrMuddle]

More details here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63404181

 

[gargamon]

So much for the Thai plan to attract tourists by having legal weed. It will soon be legal almost everywhere. 

[rice555]

5 minutes ago, gargamon said:

So much for the Thai plan to attract tourists by having legal weed. It will soon be legal almost everywhere. 

They are going to come, to stay worm!

[stoner]

das is good. 

[bobbin]

3 hours ago, gargamon said:

So much for the Thai plan to attract tourists by having legal weed. It will soon be legal almost everywhere. 

Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it...

[Trippy]

8 hours ago, gargamon said:

So much for the Thai plan to attract tourists by having legal weed. It will soon be legal almost everywhere. 

If it attracts even 5% of the Chinese and the Indians, they don't need the Europeans.  

[PPGuy]

Another article on the German proposal, from the UK Guardian.

 

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

[KhunBENQ]

Making nice plans and putting aside that it violates EU law, the holy word 

I just wait it to be wiped away by the superior judges.

[MrMuddle]

Be interesting to folow the story s time goes on. Don't recall the EU getting involved when the UK downgraded Cannabis during the first Blair Goverment, plus Cannabis doesn't seem to be a problem in Holland, or Portugal. Sometimes people just look on the downside of everything.

[mull]

Has a date been set for german weed cafes to open?

[bernard75]

9 hours ago, mull said:

Has a date been set for german weed cafes to open?

Yes: Never

Smoking lounges are explicitly not in the current coalition agreement draft.

[bernard75]

On 10/27/2022 at 10:54 AM, KhunBENQ said:

Making nice plans and putting aside that it violates EU law, the holy word 

I just wait it to be wiped away by the superior judges.

Beside violating several EU laws, directives and contracts, it violates the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs Act from over 60 years ago.

 

Anyway, im sure the monkeys in the Bundestag or the EU commission will <deleted> this up.

Or some ultra-conservative country steps in and everything is up in smoke.

[bamnutsak]

Somewhat related...in the U.S. it is rumored that the Senate may vote on the SAFE Act during their lame duck session.

 

The SAFE Banking Act, which allows cannabis businesses in states where it is legal to open bank accounts and get loans, has already passed the House six times.

 

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/03/senate-marijuana-legislation-chuck-schumer

 

This would be another step in the directon of Federal legaliztion of cannabis in the U.S.

[bobbin]

9 hours ago, bernard75 said:

Beside violating several EU laws, directives and contracts, it violates the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs Act from over 60 years ago.

 

 

That Act did not seem to have been a problem for Canada*.. which although not a member of the EU, is/was a signatory of that Act.

 

I would think that many of these international agreements allow for sovereign decisions.

 

* Or any other nation which has signed that agreement many years in the past but has subsequently made various amendments to their Cannabis laws..