Things to remain the same for the forseeable future.
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After months of speculation, the new German governing coalition announced today that it has agreed on what to do regarding the nation’s adult-use cannabis legalization law (CanG) and that the coalition has decided to keep legalization in place.
No changes to the law are reportedly being made right now, although future evaluations will occur as part of the coalition agreement. The new governing coalition is expected to revisit the topic when the results of ongoing evaluations become available in Q4 2025.
The coalition announcement comes after polling found little support for a CanG reversal. A recent YouGov poll has found that a minority (38%) of the nation’s citizens support reversing German adult-use cannabis legalization.
Additionally, according to the results of a Forsa survey commissioned by the KKH Kaufmännische Krankenkasse, 55% of surveyed Germans do not want to repeal the nation’s CanG adult-use legalization law. Only 36% of the Forsa survey respondents indicated that they want to repeal legalization, with the rest being undecided.
Various German organizations also expressed opposition to a CanG reversal. The New Association of Judges (NRV) in Germany recently expressed a positive conclusion regarding legalization and warned newly elected German lawmakers against reversing the CanG law.
“Rolling back the law would mean that the judiciary would have to pursue small consumers on a large scale again. This would mean there would be no time to take action against organized crime.” reported Deutschlandfunk in its local coverage.
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Germany’s Coalition Announces No Changes To CanG Law For Now
