Germany takes next step to open cannabis shops Germany moves forward with legalising sale of marijuana and edibles
A new regulation has named Germany’s Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BLE) as the responsible body to “authorise and monitor the handling of cannabis for scientific purposes”.
Now that the BLE has the authority to issue the licence required to grow and trade cannabis for scientific purposes, the government can begin implementing the “second pillar” of its cannabis legalisation law by trialling the commercial sale of cannabis in certain regions and German cities.
Speaking to SPIEGEL, Jrgen Neumeyer of the Cannabiswirtschaft Verband, the trade association of the cannabis industry, said that the development paved a “practicable way [...] to sell cannabis products legally in Germany”.
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