Business of Cannabis have been following local media and it’s all looking predictably negative…
A number of Czech news publications have suggested that the country’s cannabis legalisation is likely to be significantly scaled back.
According to Echo24.cz, the coalition, currently at a stalemate over the bill, continues to disagree on the extent to which cannabis access will be liberalised.
While numerous reports suggest that all other parties, alongside the Prime Minister, are generally in favour of full legalisation, the KDU-ČSL (Christian and Democratic Union – Czechoslovak People’s Party) continues to fight the bill at every turn.
One thing they have agreed on is the legalisation of self-cultivation, allowing up to three cannabis plants to be grown and possession of up to 600g for personal use in a person’s residence.
Despite this widely published potential scaleback, National Drug Coordinator Jindřich Vobořil’s bill including a full commercial market remains unchanged, and is still ‘sitting outside the government’s office’.
These reported negotiations, Business of Cannabis is informed, do not mean that full legalisation is fully off the table.
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