Germany’s move to legalise cannabis expected to create ‘domino effect’

Post by htkibar » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 12:24 PM UTC

seper8 wrote: post #82

Hope so. Here in the Netherlands we've fallen hilariously behind. It's illegal to produce weed with the intention to sell, but legal to sell. At the same time it's illegal to have a large inventory. So criminals make large amounts of cash by illegally growing weed. And cops have to waste their time dealing with these guys. Eventually these guys grow up and start with the more profitable stuff such as cocaine & mdma.…

Post by rascul » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 12:25 PM UTC

BrianOnHN wrote: post #27

Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #20

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Hopefully the canabis producers will see the low (by todays standards) THC level weed as having its own niche and market it accordingly. Like 'light beer'.

I wonder how alcohol would look of people were so incompetent that they would drink vodka by the pint, like beer! Seriously, if you smoke a joint of high-grade then you're doing it wrong.

Post by andrewinardeer » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 12:27 PM UTC

hans1729 wrote: post #65

Semaphor wrote: post #43

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> Wording: Germany will not legalise Cannabis. Maybe it will be decriminalized, but there is basically no chance of legalisation (too complex/expensive of a process). Source?

I was told so from a credible source a couple years ago. What I can recall: legalisation would entail complex legal work, to a degree where that option is essentially not on the table. This is supported by the fact that "Legalisierung" is not part of the political language wrt topic, instead they refer to "Kontrollierte Abgabe" (~'controlled distribution').

Post by SomeBoolshit » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 12:27 PM UTC

selfmodruntime wrote: post #3

I think the legalization of cannabis in Europe has a lot of potential. I just wish that we would take measures to avoid the ever increasing levels of THC dosage in weed to insane levels, like you see in the US or California specifically. I firmly believe that cannabis can do a lot of good, but the poison is in the dosage. It has been shown in the past that increasing THC while decreasing CBD leads to an increase in n…

Post by NickRandom » Fri, Jul 01, 2022, 12:28 PM UTC

mellavora wrote: post #73

kzrdude wrote: post #32

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Cigarettes are stimulating in a way similar to coffee - weed is not, so the lutheran morals dominated cultures (admittedly a quite outdated generalization) look very disapprovingly upon it.

No, sorry. Study history. Weed was criminalized as a mechanism for white people to control black people, because weed was a Mexican and black person drug when those laws were enacted. It's all in the arguments in favor of the criminalization laws when they were passed. nothing to do with the Protestant Work Ethic. Sorry if the phrase "black person" is offensive, none is meant.