Germany’s long-anticipated “Pillar 2,” which would launch adult-use marijuana sales as part of a limited-duration pilot project, is in danger of being abandoned, according to elected officials.
Advocates for adult-use cannabis in Germany proposed standing up the market in two phases, or “pillars,” after the executive branch of the European Union pushed back against plans to launch a German recreational marijuana market.
This strategy already is in use in Switzerland, which now has seven pilot projects in various Swiss states.
Germany launched Pillar 1, a limited adult-use market of cultivation social clubs, in April.
Retail marijuana sales were not included in Pillar 1.
Ates Gürpinar, drug policy spokesperson for the Left Party in the Bundestag, or German federal parliament, told the Legal Tribune Online that he “no longer expects the law on Pillar 2 by the end of the legislative period.”
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