Germany scales back plans to allow cannabis sale in shops and pharmacies
by Philip Oltermann in Berlin from World news | The Guardian on (#6AQFE)
Health minister says adults will be allowed to grow and consume limited amounts privately or at members clubs by end of year
Adults in Germany will be able to grow and consume recreational cannabis privately or via non-profit members clubs by the end of the year, the country's health minister announced on Wednesday, scaling back previous plans to make the drug distributable via shops or pharmacies nationwide.
The previous cannabis policy has failed," said the health minister, Karl Lauterbach, as he presented the German government's new two-phase approach to legalising cannabis at a press conference in Berlin. Now we have to go new ways."
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