When is Bubatz legal?

Patience is required.

Maybe “Bubatz” will be legal in the coming year. That’s all but certain. Well-known politicians have expressed themselves positively, but unfortunately it has not yet been done with speaking alone.

“The process for the planned cannabis release is to start with several specialist talks by the federal drug officer Burkhard Blienert with national and international experts. In the second half of the year a draft law will follow, the minister explained.”

— Karl Lauterbach (SPD), Federal Minister for Health

Source: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/karl-lauterbach-kuendigt- zwischenspurt-fuer-neue-gesetze-an-a-0f370684-6f29-4ec4-b47c-c4407b3c50bf

“The legalization of #Cannabis is coming. Karl Lauterbach wants to present a bill in 2022. It is realistic to implement the law by spring 2023. We even try to create it earlier: Normally such a law takes six to nine months.”

— Marco Buschmann (FDP), Federal Minister of Justice

Source: twitter.com/MarcoBuschmann/status//15236288376237569

There are still several obstacles between the draft law and the adoption of the law. Here is a recent and detailed contribution from me on the topic:

Has cannabis legalization been put to the files again?,

Whether or not the own cultivation will be included in the bill is currently not foreseeable. There is both acknowledging and rejection within the parties as regards this issue.

With good luck it is as Mr Buschmann would like, and the handling of cannabis is legal in one form or another from the coming year.

So far, people will probably continue to be criminalized. More than 90,000 criminal proceedings against consumers (‘consumable delicacies’) have been initiated since the government began. I believe that a large part of it is left to fall again makes it even more absurd. Details on how the estimate is made are available here: https://www.legalisationnow.de/

“We are unaware of what justice and police are trying to do with the more difficult approach to small amounts of cannabis products. It’s almost like you want to judge everything quickly before legalization comes. We have as many convictions for minimal amounts as never before. In recent weeks alone, for example, penalty orders for 0.18 grams of marijuana, a joint, and several penalty orders in the range from one to three grams.”

— Konstantin Grubwinkler, lawyer

Source: http://www.koenig-online.de/

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