Germany legalizes smoking of cannabis at home and in public | DW News

Germany legalizes smoking of cannabis at home and in public | DW News

German lawmakers have voted to legalize cannabis for private consumption. The new legislation allows the limited legal availability of cannabis, but with numerous rules, regulations and restrictions. The government says the main goal of the bill is to crack down on the black market and drugs-related crime. But the move faced considerable opposition from medical associations, the judiciary and opposition politicians.

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0:00 Germany legalizes cannabis for private consumption
2:40 Thomas Sparrow, DW Correspondent
5:43 Kristine Lütke, FDP Party Drug policy spokesperson
8:40 Bernt Werse, Goethe University Center for Drug Research

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50 Comments

  1. @arturrofi5933 on May 23, 2024 at 9:24 am



  2. @Love-xm4sr on May 23, 2024 at 9:24 am

    🗽. 🌱. 🌍. 🌎. 🕊️.



  3. @lazarusblackwell6988 on May 23, 2024 at 9:25 am

    Personally i dont do weed but i drink when with the gang.



  4. @apeshit4banana on May 23, 2024 at 9:27 am

    How will they enforce the 25 gram law? Will they carry around some scales?? 😮😅



  5. @lazarusblackwell6988 on May 23, 2024 at 9:28 am

    If alcohol and cigarettes are legal,then weed should be too.

    Less insanity in the world the better.

    People will do what they do legal or otherwise.



  6. @sanderpietersen53 on May 23, 2024 at 9:29 am

    Now the rest of europe!



  7. @cooperjay4823 on May 23, 2024 at 9:35 am

    If you can drink at 14, getting baked at 18 seems reasonable



  8. @rebeccahaglund3194 on May 23, 2024 at 9:35 am

    JERMANY! DO NOT DO THIS!! YOU ARE UNAWARE OF WHAT YOU’RE GETTING TO!!! STOP AND REPENT IF YOU CAN BE SAVED! Ask Jesus Christ for forgiveness!



  9. @fakiriayoub8087 on May 23, 2024 at 9:36 am

    Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It’s quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.



  10. @ShayNashiv on May 23, 2024 at 9:41 am

    I’m so jealous lol.. Israel is still behind. 😢 What an absurd in a place where it is such needed and is already known as a pioneer in cannabis research and pharmacology that helped worldwide… I hope that soon



  11. @NightfallShadow on May 23, 2024 at 9:43 am

    Don’t allow them to make the same mistake america did by 1. High taxes on cannnabis 2. Ban on Banking. 3. Not violently going after illegal farms. 4. Not having a cap on How many people can make a commercial farm by limiting the number of farms and by adding at least a three year wait time for anyone who is not from your state or in germany’s situation their "country" before they can start a farm. Meaning, anyone who exists outside who is trying to finance, act as a source of finance, or make a farm happen in any way must wait three years. Which means you can’t live in France or in Oregon’s situation, lets say Texas, and then stay living in texas while you have someone else who has already lived in Oregon start a farm for you as an employee or partner. Seriously, severely limit trying to cover every loophole you can to prevent outside people from having any possible chance of starting farms in your country and limit the total number of liscenses for farms and producers.

    Don’t over tax, don’t over populate, do not over regulate. Otherwise, your cannabis industry like the one here in oregon will be flooded, over taxed, hostile to anyone new, non profitable, and all of that together of also not going after illegal growers stealing tens of millions of gallons of water during a drought and hiding millions of tons of illegal cannabis in warehouses will run rampant and the illegal trade of it will do nothing to stop crime involving it. In fact, it will make things so much worst. FFS, I can’t even FIND a farm to work at. The closest thing I have is a place that only hires people for harvest work during October only.



  12. @karolis5372 on May 23, 2024 at 9:44 am

    Remember, alcohol is legal too…



  13. @Misa12356 on May 23, 2024 at 9:46 am

    now you need heavy regulation



  14. @williambuchanan77 on May 23, 2024 at 9:46 am

    By growing it at home stoners will learn the skills 5he nation could use if a food shortage occurs. If you have the knowledge and skill to grow weed you’ll have no problem growing food. This would be useful whenever the need arises.



  15. @czechultimatestyle on May 23, 2024 at 9:46 am

    so these health agencies are concerned what will happen "after" legalizing it but didnt care about it before?
    i mean people were smoking and will keep on smoking pot legal or not 😀 …
    i think its a win that people can grow their own weed and not buy turkish grown with deadly chemicals inside it..

    Opposition does not like this law cause they now lost monopol 😀 and their drug sales will go down, poor poor politicians ,,,,



  16. @Misa12356 on May 23, 2024 at 9:48 am

    Ganja!!!!!!



  17. @gnarmarmilla on May 23, 2024 at 9:49 am

    Praise The Lord! Big Pharma’s grip on our lawmakers is loosening!
    Still, this law is a bit pathetic and dishonest. They will have to change it, this cannot go on forever, it is corruption in the eyes of God. Cannabis is an awesome and blessed supplement.



  18. @dennisengelen2517 on May 23, 2024 at 9:50 am

    How soft drugs is illegal but alcohol isn’t is just beyond me. Same with sugar, how corporations globally are even allowed to make people addicted to mant health issues is insane.



  19. @CaptainValian on May 23, 2024 at 9:50 am

    System > CorRect > Understanding > Acceptance > Part of the way >



  20. @anno_nymus on May 23, 2024 at 9:51 am

    next oktoberfest will be a smoke festival…
    beer indusrtry will definetly sabotage this law…



  21. @smyffmawzz on May 23, 2024 at 9:51 am

    It’s easily implemented . And with limits for possession on the streets . Easy to Police too . If they even bother .



  22. @fabiantimmins2224 on May 23, 2024 at 9:51 am

    Cigarettes and alcohol. End of debate



  23. @elijah420stuffs2 on May 23, 2024 at 9:52 am

    Meanwhile in Italy we are still in dark ages 😢



  24. @user-ku1zj6cz4b on May 23, 2024 at 9:53 am

    🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 ich habe das erste Mal mit elf gekifft und ab zwölf hatte ich meine erste Pflanze denkt ihr wirklich, dass die Polizei mich angehalten hat das hat die noch nie richtig gejuckt in Deutschland. Ich Feier gerade vor Polizeiwache mit zwei Pflanzen unter meine Arme. dass ich Deutschland 🇩🇪 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪



  25. @clairebell7404 on May 23, 2024 at 9:53 am

    Im from the uk. Trying to learn from DUTCH producers the art of hard dance music. These guys seem very able to do this and I don’t see many people from the uk succeeding like the dutch do. My point is . They say cannabis damages the brain. Well the dutch, who are pot smokers don’t seem to be that dumb lol. As I said very able to do amazing things. Have u been to the Netherlands. A very kl country. Lets take some advice from the crazy dutch. Where would we be without them.



  26. @user-ku1zj6cz4b on May 23, 2024 at 9:54 am

    🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪 I smoked weed for the first time when I was eleven and by the age of twelve I had my first plant. Do you really think that the police stopped me? That never really bothered them in Germany. I’m celebrating in front of the police station with two plants under my arms. That I am Germany 🇩🇪 🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪



  27. @hs7ehfheuezdhji on May 23, 2024 at 9:54 am

    Austria should follow. Here only cbd is allowed.



  28. @H-jb4tf on May 23, 2024 at 9:55 am

    Soon hospitals will be filled with people with mental disfunctions, placing a bigger burden on your health system for others who really need it. Glad i no longer live there.



  29. @xrstopherpopp120 on May 23, 2024 at 9:55 am

    any politician that argues the health consequences of weed, while booze is legal, is just being a politician.



  30. @hajotge12 on May 23, 2024 at 9:55 am

    What I am missing: Why is the model of Portugal never mentioned?
    In Portugal consumption of drugs (and a limited amount of possession) is allowed but drugs stay illegal. They emphasize helping the addicts and don’t want the victims to be criminalized. This would still decriminalize users (as the German law now does) but would make a stronger statement about Cannabis not being supported by the Country.



  31. @mekkertroniker2002 on May 23, 2024 at 9:55 am

    Thats not all. The legalized it for political friends, but the other side still say no. The will lost the driver lincens work and so on if the smoke, the politicals are complete menthaly ill



  32. @KnallKalle on May 23, 2024 at 10:00 am

    The German downfall continues. Does another country need real skilled workers? There are enough Germans who are fed up with it



  33. @Captain.Pugwash on May 23, 2024 at 10:03 am

    Never mind about "solving problems"…how about the civil right to choose to smoke cannabis, as long as I’m not bothering anyone else.



  34. @CarlBland-tn1jo on May 23, 2024 at 10:03 am

    Legal or not i will smoke



  35. @checkthelogic on May 23, 2024 at 10:04 am

    I thought the Germans were smart 😮 Many don’t have air conditioners. When their neighbors smoke it will be too hot during the summer to close the windows!!



  36. @siozawa on May 23, 2024 at 10:05 am

    Is Canada named after cannabis ?🤣🤣



  37. @DimiterAngelicheff on May 23, 2024 at 10:07 am

    this is a huge mistake, the consequences will be catastrophic!



  38. @patrickweissel5241 on May 23, 2024 at 10:09 am

    🎼 Danke Sagrada Maria 🙏



  39. @levent.a.7280 on May 23, 2024 at 10:12 am

    Such a good news 🇩🇪❤️



  40. @WTfire10 on May 23, 2024 at 10:13 am

    WAAAAAAN, WAAAAAN wird das ott legal



  41. @RT-qt1xh on May 23, 2024 at 10:16 am

    I don’t care about that law, if ppl like to consume weed, they are pleased to do so. But I have my doubts with the age, since the brain is fully developed till mid 20, so able to consume weed with the age of 18 is a bit to soon



  42. @danielblake8956 on May 23, 2024 at 10:16 am

    I smoked cannabis 30 years ago & glad that time is behind me. I could say alot more Negative things about making it legal; alot. And Negative social effect about smoking in public.
    I feel concern for Germany & sad for them; there youth especially. Most Germans will look back on this in the future as a bad decision.
    Legalizing cannabis will only make Germany weaker in many ways.



  43. @ToreMix7400 on May 23, 2024 at 10:17 am

    It should be completely legal, together with opium and psychedelic mushrooms and plant drugs, all over the world.
    Distribution to minors should be socially unacceptable, but not punished except for fines of approximately a months salary!



  44. @mahroof8730 on May 23, 2024 at 10:17 am

    Good Job, Germany,,will be helping those with health issues especially pain releaf,, england should follow like many others,, peace



  45. @i.c.wiener2750 on May 23, 2024 at 10:17 am

    I know more people who ruined their lives with cannabis than I know people who ruined their lives with alcohol – and I’m German.

    The thing is it’s super hard to drink alcohol on a level that it affects your life negatively. Nobody likes to drink daily, because you get a hangover. Also while you’re drunk (and before you become a "functioning alcoholic") you pretty can’t do anything, but most of us have at least something going on in our lives so it’s not happening.
    Weed on the other hand can be consumed daily. Maybe not before work, but for sure after, even if you’ve got something to do. If you consume daily (which as I said is pretty easy to do) you’ll ruin your life for sure. You don’t care about anything anymore, you lose all your drive to do stuff. You’ll lose your job, your friends and your girlfriend. That’s something no "statistic about the danger of drugs" will tell you, because it doesn’t kill or harm you directly – but at least people know when you shoot heroine that it’s your death sentence. When people use weed they still act like it’s just something safe, something fun. Not really a drug.



  46. @hiocfukbffukvgdujvdstjkjg3158 on May 23, 2024 at 10:20 am

    Germany has officially fallen.



  47. @ReptilezDzn on May 23, 2024 at 10:20 am

    i think that listening to politics regurarily damages the brain, however its a nice change from the usual bs. well done germany! pushing the decrim or legalisation!



  48. @user-hr4tv6jq5l on May 23, 2024 at 10:20 am

    Wie hier alle denken, dass Alkohol dadurch jetzt verschwindet…herrlich



  49. @checkthelogic on May 23, 2024 at 10:22 am

    Will Germany have 2 parks – smoking and nonsmoking? Or, will parents and children have to deal with it?



  50. @trenchc0de on May 23, 2024 at 10:23 am

    „Germany‘s largest opposition party“ *shows CDU* yeah sure thing öffis