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Some two months after Germany partially legalized the recreational use of cannabis, parliament has voted to amend the much anticipated law to introduce new restrictions for driving. The amendments, passed late on Thursday, also include additional provisions for the cultivation of cannabis in so-called cannabis clubs to prevent the emergence of large-scale plantations. Following years of debate, Berlin passed new cannabis legislation in February, allowing German adults to legally possess, purchase or cultivate marijuana, although strict regulations and limits still apply. Under the law, in forc...
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The US government moved to categorize marijuana as a less dangerous drug on Thursday, meaning people who use or possess the substance are unlikely to go to prison in future. "Too many lives have been upended because of our failed approach to marijuana," US President Joe Biden wrote on social media platform X. "So today, the Justice Dept is taking the next step to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug under federal law." Drugs fall into five different categories in the United States. Up until now, marijuana or cannabis has been in the first and therefore strictest catego...
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A bailiff entering a home in Vienna to enforce a rent arrears order found more than 1,000 dried out cannabis plants, police in the Austrian capital reported on Sunday. The plantation covered the entire floor area of the residence. The plants were dried out and no longer suitable for sale or use. The tenant had also bridged the electricity meter and laid unauthorized cables to run the plantation, the police report said.
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Passengers on Deutsche Bahn, the state-owned German rail operator, will not be permitted to smoke cannabis on its stations following the legalization of the drug at the beginning of the month. "Based on the legal ban on cannabis consumption during the day in pedestrian zones and in the vicinity of schools and playgrounds, we would like to safeguard all our passengers at our stations, especially children and young people," a Deutsche Bahn spokeswoman told the mass-circulation Bild tabloid. The new regulations are to be ready for implementation in around four weeks, after which Deutsche Bahn sta...
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has defended the recent legalization of cannabis in Germany during his visit to Tongji University in Shanghai on Monday. A concerned student, who plans to study in Berlin from September, asked the chancellor how to avoid cannabis, after reading that students in Germany were now growing it in their flats - something that was illegal in China. "That's why I'm very worried," he said. He asked Scholz what to bear in mind "if I don't want to try cannabis at all and don't want to jeopardize my own health." Scholz said the answer was simple: "Don't smoke it." The chancel...
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Germany's conservative opposition will revoke a new law legalizing cannabis for personal use if they gain power, a senior spokesman said in remarks published on Saturday. "In our view, drugs policy, particularly with respect to protecting young people, is an issue of such central significance that we will revoke the legalization of cannabis in the event we take power," lawmaker Thorsten Frei told the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper. The legislation allowing for adult possession in public of up to 25 grams of cannabis for personal use, was passed by parliament over a week ago and takes effect o...
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Supporters of the legalization of cannabis in Germany are preparing to welcome the entry into force of a new law on Monday with a "smoke-in" at the Brandenburg Gate in the capital Berlin. It would mark the start of "a new era," the hemp association said. From 11:30 pm (2230 GMT) on Sunday evening, people were being invited to gather at the iconic monument to smoke marijuana in public - but only when the law comes into force. "You can light up at midnight," the hemp association said. The event has been officially registered with the police as a demonstration. Smaller events are then planned for...
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