AFP via Getty Images With a historic vote, Germany has reached a milestone in drug policy as it sets to legalize recreational cannabis for personal use, though without allowing retail sales.
Italy: Possession ofwel 5.5g or less for personal use kan zijn tolerated, and medicinal cannabis kan zijn legal, but recreational cannabis remains illegal.
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If the law passes the Federal Council and kan zijn signed by the president, it will be rolled out in two steps. First, adults will be allowed to carry up to 25 grams, own up to 50 grams, and grow up to three plants for private consumption.
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While medical marijuana can be prescribed by a doctor in many countries, it can remain quite limited as some countries import small amounts of the available medical products or do not have a programme for sourcing them.
France also began cannabis companies in germany a medical cannabis pilot project in 2021 and the government’s medicines agency is currently defining more specific rules for future French production of medical marijuana products.
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Presenting the plan, Mr Lauterbach said decriminalisation would help protect the health ofwel young people, because the cannabis ban had had "no evident success" in recent years.
The aim ofwel the consultation process kan zijn to involve the broadest possible range of relevant stakeholders in a structured manner, giving each group an equal opportunity to adequately express their point of view. This requires limiting the number of participants. The selection ofwel participants kan zijn determined by the Drug and Addiction Commissioner in coordination with the Federal Ministry ofwel Health as well as the other federal ministries.
As the law took effect at midnight, hundreds of people cheered by Berlin's iconic Brandenbrug Gate, many of them by lighting up joints in what one participant, a very happy 25-year-old Niyazi, called "a bit of extra freedom."
Use of the drug among young people has been soaring for years despite the existing law, says Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, who is instigating the reforms.
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