The leaders of Germany’s coalition government say they have reached a final agreement on a bill to legalize marijuana, resolving outstanding disagreements that had delayed action and setting the stage for a vote in the final week of February and enactment in April.

In a joint statement, leaders of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Free Democratic Party (FDP) and Greens said the proposed regulations “are a real milestone for a modern drug policy that strengthens prevention and improves health, child and youth protection.”

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    Been legal in Canada for a few years now, and all is fine. Go for it Europe.

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        Shroom centers are opening up too.

        Where?? So I uhh know what to avoid and all…

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          Whatever you do, don’t walk into a Freaky’s glass shop and buy the spore kits for $25!

          First real centers are going up next year I believe

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    It’s insane to me how far the anti-weed hysteria has spread. Like, i get America is a puritan country that used it to demonize black people and counter culture, there was a lot of effort there to use a spark that already existed, but why does any other country care?

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        I’d expect every shitty regime will have a scapegoat, but not weed. Weed isn’t universally country cultural or anything, every place would have their own trends to target.

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      Brother US (and maybe the UK) made the propaganda and the systems of the world, they are gonna be very effective for their goals.

      Have you forgotten they are a superpower or something? They are the origin of that kind of red scare propaganda, and they always aimed most of it not at the inside but at everyone else.

      It’s certainly a saying here in Europe that we do what the US does ten years later (or that we do what they tell us to do) and it’s a saying because it’s core is true.

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        I had assumed that’s how it went, too, but Germany had their crusade against marijuana before the US

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    I hope this will undermine the illegal trade in my country the Netherlands as well. The Netherlands has some of the most retarded laws when it comes to weed. Weed is technically still illegal here. We only have a toleration policy and non of it is codified in the law. There is only a mandate in place that says that possession laws don’t have to be enforced and that certain shops are allowed to sell but can’t grow and cultivate weed. The idea was that it all comes from home growers who are allowed to have a few plants. So guess where all the weed comes from, it all comes from the illegal circuit. The stupid toleration policy only made criminals into multi millionaires. And these criminals of course expanded their business and are now also active in the cocaine, meth and xtc trade. And now the Netherlands is the biggest drugs distributor of Europe

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    It’s a good way to fight global warming as well since people don’t have to drive to the Netherlands to get their greens anymore