{"id":80841,"date":"2025-04-09T08:25:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T16:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/german-coalition-parties-announce-plans-to-evaluate-but-not-repeal-the-countrys-marijuana-legalization-law\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T19:46:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T03:46:44","slug":"german-coalition-parties-announce-plans-to-evaluate-but-not-repeal-the-countrys-marijuana-legalization-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannabiscultivatornews.com\/home\/index.php\/2025\/04\/09\/german-coalition-parties-announce-plans-to-evaluate-but-not-repeal-the-countrys-marijuana-legalization-law\/","title":{"rendered":"German Coalition Parties Announce Plans To Evaluate\u2014But Not Repeal\u2014The Country\u2019s Marijuana Legalization Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Following a pivotal national election in Germany earlier this year, political parties that are cooperating to form a new coalition government have announced they\u2019ll conduct an \u201copen-ended evaluation\u201d of the country\u2019s new marijuana legalization law\u2014meaning that at least for now, officials will allow the policy to stay in place.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Reform advocates had been watching closely to see how the centrist coalition would handle the legalization law, which officially took effect last April. Conservative lawmakers who won the most votes in the election have expressed their desire to roll back the law, but they were not able to get another party to agree to that plan as part of the new coalition agreement announced on Wednesday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the fall of 2025, we will conduct an open-ended evaluation of the cannabis law,\u201d says a new 146-page coalition agreement between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Christian Social Union (CSU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD), according to a translation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Lawmakers who support the marijuana legalization law cheered the new agreement, which for now will leave in place the Cannabis Consumption Act (Konsumcannabisgesetz, or CanG) rather than seek to repeal it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor all those who thought this was important: #CanG stays!\u201d Carmen Wegge, an SDP politician in the country\u2019s Bundestag, posted on social media after the release of the new agreement.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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F\u00fcr alle denen das wichtig war: #CanG<\/a> bleibt!<\/p>\n

\u2014 Carmen Wegge (@CarmenWegge) April 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The German Hemp Association (DHV) also cheered the news of the <\/span><\/span>agreement<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe CanG won\u2019t be reversed for now!\u201d the trade group said on social media\u2014an indication of just how concerned legalization supporters were that results of the national election could undo the reform.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Niklas Kouparanis, co-founder and CEO of the German medical marijuana company Bloomwell Group said the country\u2019s cannabis industry \u201cis breathing a sigh of relief.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe new government is sending a strong signal: Germany\u2019s legal cannabis industry is sustainable even under a CDU chancellor,\u201d Kouparanis said in a statement. \u201cCannabis in Germany will attract global interest and investors, more jobs will be created, sales will continue to rise, the state will generate more tax revenue and we\u2019re projecting that soon more than a million patients will benefit from medical cannabis.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Coalition agreement confirms what many already forecasted,\u201d he added: \u201clegal cannabis is here to stay.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Koalitionsvertrag zwischen CDU\/CSU und SPD zu Cannabis: “Im Herbst 2025 f\u00fchren wir eine ergebnisoffene Evaluierung des Gesetzes zur Legalisierung von
Cannabis durch.”<\/p>\n

Also wird das CanG erstmal nicht zur\u00fcckgedreht! 🔥#NieWiederKriminell<\/a>https:\/\/t.co\/wtG4V35CUC<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Hanfverband (@hanfverband) April 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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There was good reason for supporters to be concerned. Ahead of last year\u2019s election, two of the parties now in power\u2014CDU and CSU\u2014said in a manifesto that they would be \u201cabolishing the traffic light coalition\u2019s cannabis law,\u201d claiming that the plan \u201cprotects dealers and exposes our children and teenagers to drug use and addiction.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Other parties also addressed cannabis issues in the run-up to the elections.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Beginning in April of last year, <\/span><\/span>the legalization of possession and home cultivation for adults<\/span><\/span><\/a> took effect. Cannabis social clubs\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>also began to open, providing members with legal access to marijuana products<\/span><\/span><\/a> .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In December, the federal minister for food and agriculture signed off on a plan to <\/span><\/span>allow for research-focused commercial marijuana pilot programs<\/span><\/span><\/a> to test legal and regulated access to cannabis for consumers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At the local level, the city of Frankfurt late last year announced plans to move forward with a <\/span><\/span>five-year pilot program that would make cannabis products available to adults more broadly<\/span><\/span><\/a> , with the city of Hanford also pursuing a similar plan. A number of other localities have also\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>expressed interest<\/span><\/span><\/a> \u00a0in conducting cannabis sales pilot projects.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Despite widespread concern that results of February\u2019s election could spell doom for the legalization law, most Germans\u2014 <\/span><\/span>59 percent of eligible voters<\/span><\/span><\/a> \u2014support allowing adults to purchase cannabis from licensed stores.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For the previous three years Germans were polled on the issue, support sat at just under 50 percent. But as the country\u2019s marijuana law began being implemented last year, there was a spike in favor of the policy change.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Notably, respondents who identified as CDU or CSU\u2014two of the three coalition parties behind the new agreement\u2014were the only political affiliations among which majorities of voters supported rolling back the reform law.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

German officials last year convened an international conference where leaders were invited to <\/span><\/span>share their experiences with legalizing and regulating marijuana<\/span><\/span><\/a> , with a focus on public health and mitigating the illicit market.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Representatives from Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic and Switzerland were invited by German Commissioner for Addiction and Drug Issues Burkhard Blienert to the meeting in Berlin.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The countries that participated in the ministerial have varying cannabis policies. Malta, for example,\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>became the first European country to enact cannabis legalization<\/span><\/span><\/a> \u00a0in 2021. Luxembourg followed suit, with\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>the reform officially taking effect in 2023<\/span><\/span><\/a> .<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Government officials from several countries, including the US, also met in Germany in 2023 to <\/span><\/span>discuss international marijuana policy issues<\/span><\/span><\/a> as the host nation worked to enact legalization.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A group of German lawmakers, as well as Blienert, separately\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>visited the US and toured California cannabis businesses<\/span><\/span><\/a> \u00a0in 2022 to inform their country\u2019s approach to legalization.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The visit came after top officials from Germany, Luxembourg, Malta and the Netherlands\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>held their first-of-its-kind meeting to discuss plans and challenges<\/span><\/span><\/a> \u00a0associated with recreational marijuana legalization in 2022.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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