Germany legalises possession of cannabis for personal use
theguardian.com
After long discussion and frequent delays, the legalisation is finally here to stay.
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After long discussion and frequent delays, the legalisation is finally here to stay.
I really hope the German legalisation will be a success. I'm not personally a user, but I'm tired of gangs being financed by cannabis being illegal, and violence escalating over control of an illegal market.
I am so tired of hearing of police idiocy, that cannabis is widespread in criminal environments. That's simply the most incredibly stupid thing that deserves a kick in the balls for pushing such idiocy, when cannabis being illegal is the reason those environments are considered criminal in the first place!
This whole shitshow was always just the result of right wing propaganda anyways, particularly that Cannabis was popular among emigrants and the peace movement, made it a prime target for Nixon to criminalize, which basically criminalized 2 big groups that were extremely hated by the right.
This tendency was then exported to most of the world, where USA in secret threatened trade restrictions if we didn't outlaw cannabis.
Why it remained so popular despite being illegal IDK? But it seems to me the lesser harm is to legalize it, in a controlled manner. Which is exactly what Germany and other countries are doing, even USA that may have been a major reason for it being illegal almost world wide.
There will still be a lucrative black market for weed since this law doesn’t really allow for commercial sale, which is quite unfortunate. Cant have that weed cutting in on the beer mafia profits :)
It does allow for “cannabis clubs” that can supply up to 500 members (whose names will be put on a list). So that’s nice. But it’s definitely not going to be enough.
At least it’s a step forward. And really great that individuals can’t be arrested/fined for consuming a plant with their own body.
That's not going to cause problems at all
Heheh. No problems at all…
But yeah, despite being an alleged champion of privacy, Germany kind of misses the point with much of their implementation (of any privacy-related legislation).