Germany: The Ministry of Health has published a technical report on the effects of the legalisation of recreational cannabis in Canada, the US and Uruguay, evaluating
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Germany: Health minister Karl Lauterbach has sent a first draft of a bill to legalise recreational cannabis to other ministries for pre-publication review, press reports.
Germany: The Ministry of Health has notified through the European Commission’s TRIS database a bill to add the synthetic cannabinoid ADB-BUTINACA to the New Psychoactive Substances
Germany: The Health Ministry has presented new key points for the cannabis legalisation project. In phase one, non-profit cannabis clubs will be allowed to grow
Germany: After suggesting that a draft law to legalise recreational cannabis may be presented at the end of March, health minister Karl Lauterbach has said
Germany: After health minister Karl Lauterbach suggested that a draft law to legalise cannabis could be presented at the end of March, the
Germany: Last week the Health Committee of the Bundestag held a public hearing with experts about the decriminalisation of cannabis. Cannabis associations, lawyers and professors
Germany: The Federal Joint Committee, which is responsible for determining which medical treatments are covered by statutory health insurance, has decided on new regulations
Germany: Health minister Karl Lauterbach has said a bill to legalise cannabis will be announced in the next few weeks after he received “very
Germany: Following last week's publication of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB)'s 2022 Annual Report, which states that "legalization of the non-medical use
Germany: On 15th March the German Bundestag Health Committee will hold a public hearing on a bill for the decriminalisation of cannabis, introduced
Germany: Bavaria’s health minister Klaus Holetscheck has presented a legal opinion on the federal government’s plan to legalise recreational cannabis, which he says contravenes
Germany: Bavaria’s health minister Klaus Holetscheck will present a legal opinion tomorrow on the federal government’s plan to legalise recreational cannabis, which he opposes. “For medical reasons,
Germany: The Federal Joint Committee, the highest decision-making body of the German healthcare system, has published its work programme for 2023. The authority expects
Germany: The federal government has approved an amendment to the Narcotics Act to raise the THC limit in industrial hemp from 0.2% to 0.3%. The
Germany: The opposition CDU/CSU has submitted a motion to the Bundestag calling for improved supply of medical cannabis. The motion demands appropriate measures to
Germany: Carmen Wegge, the spokesperson for the Social Democratic Party (SPD) – which is part of the government coalition – has told the
Germany: The Federal Constitutional Court (BVerfG) will decide by early summer whether the criminal possession of cannabis products is constitutional, press reports. This comes after
Germany: The nonprofit Institute for Interdisciplinary Addiction and Drug Research (ISD Hamburg) has been tasked by the Federal Ministry of Health with providing an
Germany: The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has overturned the acquittal of five people accused of drug trafficking for importing CBD flowers, and referred
Germany: Andrew Ullmann, the health policy spokesperson from the coalition party the Free Democratic Party (FDP), has called for a timely draft law
Germany: Hamburg Police have issued an information sheet saying that it is a criminal offence to sell hemp products with unprocessed parts of the plant, “regardless of their
Germany: After health minister Karl Lauterbach failed to present the bill to legalise recreational cannabis, the budget politicians blocked €1m of funds, press
Germany: After asking the EU Commission to veto the recreational cannabis legalisation plans, Bavaria's health minister Klaus Holetschek – from the opposition party
Germany: In an answer to a parliamentary question from the opposition Christian Social Union (CSU) politician Stephan Pilsinger, press reports that health minister
Germany: Several medical cannabis associations have criticised the previously reported proposal from the Federal Joint Committee on new regulations for the reimbursement and prescription of medical cannabis
Germany: Health minister Karl Lauterbach is expected to commission a scientific report to convince the EU Commission that legalising recreational cannabis will push back the
Germany: The federal government has introduced the Disposable Plastic Fund Bill, in which manufacturers of single-use plastic must pay an annual fee into a central
Germany: After receiving no response from the European Commission on the proposal to legalise recreational cannabis, members of the parliament from the coalition
Germany: Bavaria's health minister, Klaus Holetschek, advocated in Brussels for the European Commission to object to Germany's recreational cannabis legalisation plan, local media reports.
Germany: The Federal Joint Committee, responsible for determining what medical care is covered by statutory health insurance, has proposed new regulations for the prescription of
Germany: The Federal Social Court has decided that health insurance companies may only approve the prescription of medical cannabis in the case of serious
Germany: Answering an inquiry from the opposition MP Tino Sorge about the submission to the European Commission of the key points on the
Germany: The Ministry of Health has today published its key issues paper on the legalisation of recreational cannabis. Major points are: cannabis no longer
Germany: The supposed “key points” of the forthcoming cannabis legalisation bill, allegedly leaked to the press yesterday, have been denied by health minister Karl Lauterbach, press reports. Lauterbach said
Germany: The Ministry of Health has made available to the media some of the key points that it says should guide the new recreational
Germany: The Federal Court of Justice has rejected appeals against a judgement by the Berlin Regional Court that resulted in two defendants being given jail
Germany: The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) is backing an amendment to the Narcotics Act to raise the THC limit for
Germany: Berlin's Drug Policy Working Group from the coalition party The Greens (Die Grünen) has published a position paper on a possible Cannabis Control
Germany: Two Social Democratic Party (SPD) parliamentary members, Carmen Wegge and Dirk Heidenblut, have presented some SPD internal key points about cannabis legalisation on Instagram.
Germany: Federal minister of finance, Christian Lindner, from the Free Democratic Party (FDP), said in a state election campaign that cannabis legalisation could
Germany: Carmen Wegge, Social Democratic Party (SPD) spokesperson on cannabis legalisation, has told the newspaper Die Zeit that legalisation “will come” and “not fail
Germany: Federal drugs commissioner Burkhard Blienert has retweeted the results of an Ipsos poll that found 61% of Germans support the full legalisation of
Germany: The Bundestag Research Service, which produces non-partisan advice to politicians, has published a report stating that the planned legalisation of cannabis could conflict with
Germany: As part of the recreational cannabis legalisation plan, the Bundestag announced a Health Committee delegation trip to Canada and the United States. Eight members
Germany: An arbitration panel has settled the base reimbursement price for domestic cultivated cannabis flowers at €4.30 per g after disputes between the German Association of Pharmacists
Germany: A district court in Itzehoe, a town in the state of Schleswig-Holstein, has ordered the confiscation of registered industrial hemp-based goods and a
Germany: In response to an inquiry from the centre-right opposition CDU/CSU about how the planned legalisation of recreational cannabis complies with EU law and
Germany: Federal drugs commissioner Burkhard Blienert has told media: “Now we’re actually moving into the concrete design stage” for legalisation of cannabis. He added: “The