On Monday, the chairwoman of the health committee had announced that the decriminalization of cannabis would be finally passed in the Bundestag in December. According to reports, this will now come to nothing. The SPD parliamentary party leadership is against it.
The news spread like wildfire online: Dirk Heidenblut MdB, the health politician responsible for cannabis in the SPD parliamentary group, announced on social media at the weekend that the final reading of the Cannabis Act (CanG), originally planned for the last week of the year, would not take place. The reason: the head of his SPD parliamentary group had raised concerns about the drafting. The avowed legalization supporter explained in a video that he could not understand these concerns but that the bill would now be postponed until next year. Heidenblut did not want to reveal any further details.
However, the SPD parliamentary group's last-minute veto of the final resolution surprised not only the cannabis community but also the coalition partners. Dr. Kirsten Kappert-Gonther (Alliance 90/The Greens), Chair of the Bundestag's Health Committee, reacted with disappointment: "It is extremely regrettable that cannabis has not yet been on the agenda. It would have been possible to put it on the agenda," wrote the MP on X (formerly Twitter).
Last Monday, Kappert-Gonther announced that the "traffic light" government would pass the law in December after reaching an agreement with the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) and Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) on changes to the original government draft.
Source: lto.de
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