Germany’s chief legislative body on Friday approved a landmark recreational cannabis bill that’s being simultaneously hailed as a generational milestone and “quasi legalization” because the new law stops short of implementing a framework for the distribution and retail sale of adult-use products.
The law approved in the Bundestag generally decriminalizes cannabis, allows for home growing and lays the legal groundwork for so-called “cultivation social clubs” – nonprofit organizations where members can acquire marijuana for recreational use.
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The law is expected to go into effect April 1, but it still needs to be read in the Bundesrat, the upper house of Parliament.
The Bundesrat will examine the bill, but its “consent” – which is different from approval – is not required.
If the upper
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