Moment German parliament votes to liberalise recreational marijuana
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- German lawmakers voted for a government plan to liberalise rules on cannabis, paving the way for the country to decriminalise limited amounts of marijuana and allow members of “cannabis clubs” to buy it for recreational purposes.
On Friday 23 February, Bundestag (Parliament’s lower house) backed the legislation, a prominent reform project of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s socially liberal governing coalition, by 407 votes to 226, with only four abstentions.
German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach explained that the government’s aim is to “fight the black market” and better protect young people.
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I doubt the UK government would ever do this.
It's the only way for Tories to stay in power. The UK should absolutely legalize it.
Well done Germany! Hopefully this will set an example that many other countries will follow in their own way. In the UK we have medical cannabis but smoking it is not allowed, medical users must use a dry herb vaporiser which, while getting you less stoned is healthier for your lungs. Medical cannabis is not available for everyone though and I think recreational legalisation is about personal freedom for people who just want to unwind with a joint at home or in public. I am optimistic that the UK will eventually come to terms with recreational weed use and choose to legalise it as a way of undermining organized crime and generating helpful tax revenues. Weed legalisation is, to me, quite obviously a global phenomenon albeit in its early stages of development.
When I think about what The Future looks like, I think of high technology and more relaxed laws in many areas. As we progress as a world, perhaps a progression is a world where cannabis is just another consumable item along with food and drink. I'd love to grow my own weed in the UK but obviously can't legally and so would never risk it. Similarly I've stopped using it entirely cos the law scares the bejesus out of me these days. I'm hoping the US will make weed legal on a federal level within the next few years - having nearly half the states with legal recreational cannabis and still being illegal at the federal level seems to be silly and untenable in the long term. IMO Canada seems to have got things right as a model. Germany's new legalisation is exciting and wonderbar. I'll be interested to see how the new laws play out and whether any neighbouring countries and EU countries in general start to put cannabis legalisation on the agenda for the next decade.
I see many people in the UK saying that it'll never happen here but I'm not so sure. All it would need is a mass ground swell of support at the grassroots and lobbying level to start to change politician's minds on the topic as they typically say "drugs are illegal and will remain as such" but as the legal cannabis case gains countries throughout the world, Britain will seem increasingly backward on our drugs policies and I think that wider global acceptance of cannabis as a regulatable, taxable commodity will put serious pressure on the UK government not to look stupid and GROW up!
I reckon give it 10 years max and non medical users will breathe a breath of weedy air at least at home, if not in public in the UK.
Scotland wants to decriminalise possession of all drugs in small amounts - that seems progressive.
In summary- it's my belief that it will happen eventually in the UK in my lifetime - I'm going to most likely live until the 2060's.... look at that year date - can you really imagine a futuristic vision in the 2060's where weed is still illegal in the UK? Maybe you can but a lot can change in a decade as we've seen with Canada, the US, Malta, Uruguay, Luxembourg, Thailand. We can make it happen. Amen.
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Jeżeli marianka została przegłosowana,to i gribki pójdą(po amerykancku na traume).
Tym,by się przydały.
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Lowering the IQ of future generations LMAO
Cannabis does not destroy brain cells (as an adult!), it just temporarily numbs them down. Alcohol for example destroys brain cells (and every other single cells in the organism, even if just a very low dose is used and not just in young years).
Not to say cannabis can't be harmful, nothing should get misused, the best thing is to just enjoy life as it is. But your statement is just wrong and polemical.
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How so? Kids can get weed anywhere, also alcohol and other drugs. In the future, as well as today, yesterday, and all the years before that... So what's your point?