All eyes on Germany for legalisation – but is that really the right place to be looking?

Germany enforced mainland Europe’s first adult-use cannabis regulation on 1st April, but long before that the country had captured the attention of the international cannabis sector.

Sure, there were delays and frustrated expectations over a wider legalisation based on a market model and in open defiance of European and international narcotics laws, which, in the end, Germany failed to deliver. But despite all that, the current two-pillar-based regulation scheme still made the global industry turn towards Berlin with some renewed optimism.