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German Cabinet approves liberalization of cannabis possession

www.politico.eu German Cabinet approves liberalization of cannabis possession

Health Minister Karl Lauterbach calls his plan ‘the best attempt at legalization of cannabis so far.’

German Cabinet approves liberalization of cannabis possession

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Usual reminder that politico is owned by Germanys largest right leaning yellow press publisher Axel Springer: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/axel-springer-acquire-news-website-politico-2021-08-26/

So take everything with a grain of salt on there.
- Thanks, wasn't aware of that.
  
  Is there a Europe focus source that is more neutral?
  
  BBC, Euronews and Deutsche Well are highly factual while having centre-left bias according to mediabiasfactcheck.com which is why I favor using them to post news to Lemmy.
- All news media are the same shit bags, you can not find out that is not tainted trash.
  
  That's a very Russian disinformation type of stance.
Why are people calling it liberalization?
- Two reasons:
  
  There are long term plans to legalize it. Currently it may be against International Law so it will take a while until it can be opened for all. The first action will be scientific observed modell citys.
  
  The decriminalisation will aim to destroy the black market. This is done by allowing social clubs than can grow their own plants and hand their members up to 50 Gramms. That is a lot and the implicite idea is that this amount will also allow a bit of interchange without being enough to drive a illegal business.
- From what I'm reading there are plenty of caveats. It's much more than decriminalization but definitely can't be called legalization.
  
  It sounds just like legalization here in the US

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