[hans1729]

I was told so from a credible source a couple years ago. What I can recall: legalisation would entail complex legal work, to a degree where that option is essentially not on the table. This is supported by the fact that "Legalisierung" is not part of the political language wrt topic, instead they refer to "Kontrollierte Abgabe" (~'controlled distribution').

[jabiko]

> I was told so from a credible source a couple years ago

I'm not sure if you have noticed it but there where elections last year and the new coalition that formed has the legalization of cannabis as one of its official goals. Your "credible sources" might have been right a few years ago, but the political landscape has changed.

> This is supported by the fact that "Legalisierung" is not part of the political language wrt topic

Of course it is. The expert consolidation which is part of the creation of new law has just concluded. Now the federal ministry of health will create a draft law and publish it by the end of the year.

[9dev]

Trouble is, nobody could bring the topic up right now without burning their career. Between Corona and Ukraine, trying to allocate time for the cannabis legalisation debate would simply be political suicide. And those topics will probably be present until (at least shortly before) the next election, which might see the rise of the CDU again, which will be the end of any cannabis debate whatsoever.

That is what a friend of mine working in the Bundestag said.

[shkkmo]

"Controlled distribution" is legalization. Nobody says that Utah has "decriminalized but not legalized" liquor even though it can only be bought in state run stores.

[andrewinardeer]

So just because it is complex it won't get done? That sounds rather defeatist to me.

[mschuster91]

That's how an awful lot of German politics works.

Source: am German, am pissed off beyond belief about a lot of things in politics, especially the lack of will to just move forward and do something instead of debating all day.

[LeonidasXIV]

The entire german government is terminally defeatist. They've been dragging their feet on digitalization for so long, they've been dragging their feet on accessible internet for so long they've been dragging their feet on transport infrastructure, they've been dragging their feet basically everything for ages. You go to Eastern Europe and wonder how things seem to be progressing much faster there.