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Is this real legalization like in Canada, or fake legalization like most other places?
If a tourist can't buy it from a store, fly to a different city/state domestically with it, and then smoke it at a designated airport smoking area outside the terminal... I struggle to see that as full 'legalization'.
If you are prohibited from doing all those things, it just seems like a different version of prohibition. Step in the right direction though, sure.
The issues here are largely with the EU which stops it from being sold in stores. For now, possession is legalised and you can have all previous arrests made because you were carrying up to 25g permanently removed from your record. It also legal to grow at home.
In this sense, it is legal for personal use but not for commercial use. To get access to weed, they will be rolling out "cannabis social clubs" in summer in which you need to be a member to be allowed to buy weed. These clubs are not allowed to make a profit. There is a plan to later do some tests with commercial usage but its not clear where that is on the roadmap.
It will be interesting to see if this will have any effects on the EU. I can imagine if more countries want to support the legalization that some hurdles can be removed there.
Then what about the Netherlands where all of that is legal?
Can't Germany use that as an angle?
It's actually not legal in the Netherlands, it's a very strange and frankly kind of bad set up. This is what the other commenter meant with "fake legalization".
You can read up on it here: https://cannigma.com/regulation/marijuana-laws-netherlands/
Would be cool if they said fuck you to the EU.
People kept worrying about Canada breaking a UN rule but Canada said fuck it and did it anyway.
The British did that and look where it got them
Canada didn't leave the UN.
The UN and EU are somewhat different organisations.
This is true. What I'm saying is I respect the willingness to 'do it anyway' attitude.
I'll agree on that. The Germans, being German already did a very big step, tbh
Considering the position Germany has in the EU, this is very unlikely
Baby steps!