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Cannabis law explained by the lawyers who practise it: analysis and commentary from law firms around the world, with the Cannabis Law Journal.
The coalition agreement recently concluded between the CDU/CSU and SPD does not contain any specific plans to amend or repeal Germany’s Cannabis Act (Cannabisgesetz, “CanG”).
S. cannabis community awaits the resumption of the DEA’s administrative law hearing on rescheduling marijuana later this month, this blog will take a glimpse at the ever-dynamic global landscape of cannabis policy.
The Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) released a report on 23 October 2024 which found that the number of people charged with drug driving offences over the past decade has increased from 1,409 to 13,815 annually.
With the entry into force of the Act on the Controlled Use of Cannabis (Federal Law Gazette 2024 I No. 2024, the legislator partially legalised the use of cannabis, whereby a distinction is made between use for medical (Medical…
Regulation of medical cannabis in the United States has always been a racial, moral, and political crusade, rather than a concerted effort to encourage and protect public health and safety, rooted in scientific and medical…
On 8 July 2024, the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft - „BMEL”) published a draft law on the liberalization of the cultivation and handling of industrial hemp…
Before we discuss cannabis reforms currently taking place in the EU, readers should understand that EU nations face steeper hurdles to legalizing commercial marijuana programs (“Adult-Use Programs”) than other nations around the…
29 May 2024 On 16 August 2023, the Federal Cabinet introduced a bill on the partial legalisation of cannabis.
In its reference decision of 15 August 2023 (Ref.: 5 U 93/22), the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Hamburg ruled on the issuing of prescriptions for prescription-only medicines…
com/en/peter-homberg The German Federal Council (Bundesrat) has endorsed the Cannabis Act (Cannabisgesetz, “CanG”), thus enabling the partial legalization of cannabis for recreational use.
It’s 2024, and while nothing ever stays the same in the world of cannabis, in a lot of ways, 2024 feels just like 2023, and 2022. More states have established medical and recreational cannabis programs, of course, but the major…
Some call it a “milestone”, Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach a “new beginning”, but it can also be seen as a turning point in German drug policy: the so-called Consumer Cannabis Act (Konsum-Cannabisgesetz) has just been…
Author: Peter Homberg Contact Peter: https://www.dentons.com/en/peter-homberg Germany passes new law on the use of cannabis (“CanG”) partially legalizing cannabis for recreational use The last few weeks were characterized by…
The law is expected to go into effect on April 1, but it still must go through the Bundesrat, the upper house of Parliament, before becoming law. The Bundesrat, however, has only the authority to discuss and examine the bill, but…
Author Peter Homberg Contact Peter https://www.dentons.com/en/peter-homberg Update on the Current Developments in the German Legalization Process In August 2023, the Federal Cabinet passed the “Act on the Controlled Use of…
In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at five countries poised to make waves in the cannabis landscape in 2024, including Germany, Thailand, Colombia, the Czech Republic, and Switzerland.
com/en/peter-homberg On September 29, 2023, the German Federal Council (Bundesrat) officially commented on the German Federal Government’s (Bundesregierung) cannabis legalization plans for the first time. On October 20, 2023, the…
Author: Peter Homberg On 16 August 2023, the German federal government agreed on a draft law for a cannabis law (Cannabisgesetz, CanG). In this first step on the road to cannabis legalization, private and communal non-commercial…
As state-regulated cannabis markets expand rapidly, so too does government oversight. The dynamic between a largely new state-by-state legal industry and well established federal investigatory regimes has left industry…
Sam Saarsteiner The German Ministry for Health has this month published a draft bill on the subject of cannabis legalisation. The draft legislation is of course a diluted version of the original ambitious plans, which faced…