Tomorrow is D-Day
Germany’s cannabis decriminalisation bill is set to endure its final and potentially most dangerous political test this week, with government sources suggesting its future now hangs in the balance.
On Friday (March 22), the bill will head to the Bundesrat for a vote which was once considered a formality given that the Federal Council does not technically have the right to reject the bill outright now that it has been approved by the Bundestag.
However, over the last few weeks, this vote has evolved into a fundamental test for CanG, which, by the architect of the bill Karl Lauterbach’s own admission, could see the ‘cannabis law die’ should a mediation committee be called.
With opposition to the bill emerging among the federal states, but growing recognition that the mediation committee could be used by the bill’s opponents to scupper the project, the future of CanG is balanced on a razor’s edge.