Personal Comment on the matter and living through it all in Germany

This whole thing was a long ass nightmare...

A lot of conservative politicians and our far-right parties wantes this to be canned and instead asked for a more restrictive policy.

The CSU (Bavarias special version of the CDU) already founded a dedicated new ministery for "extremly restrictive interpretation of the new laws". Thats how bad the f***ing right-wingers are about this progreasive approach! Im to tired to search for the source on that right now, if someone else could to that, I would greatly appreciate it.

Its still hard to believe. Even now it feels very surreal that, within a few days, the technically still existent damocles-sword of illegallity will be gone. This whole law was passed around, rewritten, ammended and changed so often, many thought it would never even pass within our lifetimes, if at all.

Even today, there was so much interest and tension in this thing, the streaming-server broadcasting the vote just cracked under the storm of viewers wanting to see how this would go down.

Thanks to all the people who tirelessly pushed for this. Your work made this happen and you deserve all the praise in the world for it. I hope we can archive more things like this in the comming future.

Usually we Germans are very hesitant to be proud of our country, for very obvious hystorical reasons. But I feel we can make an exception for this one.

Because Im proud of my country for once! Good job!

From the article:

About 7 million Germans are estimated to regularly use cannabis. The government has said previously that many users rely on the drug for medicinal reasons and that the new law will also improve the quality of cannabis consumed by growing numbers of young people.

Imagine the U.S. government giving a shit about people like this.

Also, it's not just personal use-

Adults will be permitted to grow up to three plants and possess small amounts of cannabis from 1 April, and three months later it will also be available in licensed not-for-profit clubs established to grow and distribute the cannabis plant.

So not only will you be able to get it, the people who get it to you can't be big corporate shitheels.

I recently found out that I most likely qualify for German citizenship thanks to Germany's own bureaucratic legal system. It's sounding more tempting every day.

I wish I liked the sound of the German language more though.

I really hope the German legalisation will be a success. I'm not personally a user, but I'm tired of gangs being financed by cannabis being illegal, and violence escalating over control of an illegal market.
I am so tired of hearing of police idiocy, that cannabis is widespread in criminal environments. That's simply the most incredibly stupid thing that deserves a kick in the balls for pushing such idiocy, when cannabis being illegal is the reason those environments are considered criminal in the first place!
This whole shitshow was always just the result of right wing propaganda anyways, particularly that Cannabis was popular among emigrants and the peace movement, made it a prime target for Nixon to criminalize, which basically criminalized 2 big groups that were extremely hated by the right.
This tendency was then exported to most of the world, where USA in secret threatened trade restrictions if we didn't outlaw cannabis.
Why it remained so popular despite being illegal IDK? But it seems to me the lesser harm is to legalize it, in a controlled manner. Which is exactly what Germany and other countries are doing, even USA that may have been a major reason for it being illegal almost world wide.

As a Belgian, it stings to see it get legalized pretty much all around us, while knowing it will never happen here. At least not with the current administration in charge, and 2024's elections don't look to bring any difference.

I wish my compatriots weren't so goddamn retarded. They've been voting against their own best interests for well over a decade now. Thank god we never had a Brexit proposal, I'm sure they would've run hogwild with it.

First actual good news I've read this morning.

Congrats on shrinking the drugs black market Germany, hopefully more to follow. A few years after legalization in Michigan and so far the major outcomes are millions in additional state taxes, more small business dispensaries and grow ops, and the downside for some, more frequently smelling weed in public places.

Nice to see some good news and sensible legislation.

with a shit tonne of stipulations