German lawmakers say that initial consideration of a bill to legalize marijuana will be delayed until at least next week due to the ongoing conflict in Israel that’s shifted international attention—though one legislator outlined a revised schedule that still puts the country on track to enact the first part of the government’s legal cannabis plan by early next year.
While Germany’s federal parliament, called the Bundestag, was scheduled to take up the cannabis reform legislation for a first reading on Friday, the scheduled debate has been postponed until next week, according to Carmen Wegge and Dirk Heidenblut of the Social Democratic Party.
They said the “global political situation” is the reason for the delay, but lawmakers “will make sure that everything gets done somehow in the next week,” according to a translation.
Das Cannabis Gesetz wird aufgrund der internationalen Lage wohl erst nächste Woche in der ersten Lesung im Bundestag sein. Wir gehen davon aus, dass es dadurch zu keinen zeitlichen Verzögerungen kommt. Und selbstverständlich sind wir solidarisch mit Israel. pic.twitter.com/9TXkaGEjb3
— Carmen Wegge (@CarmenWegge) October 10, 2023
But Thorsten Frei, a member of the minority Christian Democratic Union that falls outside of the majority traffic light coalition government,
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