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BEN STEVENS/ BUSINESS OF CANNABIS https://businessofcannabis.com/germany-moves-to-overturn-controversial-hemp-law-but-legal-prosecutions-continue/ In July, Germany submitted a draft of its Industrial Hemp Liberalization Act, a bill that promises to do away with the baffling and controversial ‘intoxication clause’. The fact that what has been called an ‘incomprehensible clause’ was not scrapped in the initial Cannabis Act (CanG) on April 01 has…

What Happens if High Courts Make Wrong Decisions The Bundesgerichtshof (‘BGH’) is supposed to be Germanys highest court and is expected to make decisions free from influence. What happens when the highest court in a country, for example China, makes an important judgment which is incorrect and the courts below are bound to follow the…

by Simone De La Feld @SimoneDeLaFeld1 9 August 2024 in Agriculture, Business, In the spotlight ( link below). After the green light in the parliamentary committee, the Meloni government’s Security Bill will land in the House and Senate in September. 5 Star delegation in Brussels submits a question to the EU executive, Palmisano: “Amendment incompatible…

[ Article written by BEN STEVENS for Business of Cannabis link below] The Italian hemp industry is mounting a defense against the Meloni government’s escalating efforts to criminalise light cannabis, including CBD products, amid fears that these measures could violate European Union regulations and devastate the sector. As Business of Cannabis reported last week, on July 31,…

The EU has been actively promoting the cultivation of industrial hemp for 20 years through grants and subsidises but in Germany cultivation has decreased. In the draft version of Germany’s ‘The Hemp Liberalisation Act’ this decrease in hemp cultivation is put down to three major reasons: economic, beaurocratic and legal. Violent prosecutions were the primary…

“Judges and public prosecutors have a particular role as representatives of the rule of law and are therefore bound by principles of personal integrity not only“. (Deutscher Richtverbund. Judicial Ethics In Germany.) (1) The impact of the Judiciary on Hemp and CBD trials Hemp and CBD prosecutions in Germany saw an unusual form of ‘rough justice’. Rather…

Industrial cannabis is not a narcotic German prosecutors insist hemp products are narotics even when The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs 1961 ( “The Single Convention”) – says it isn’t. The Single Convention is the law under which Germany and most other countries prosecute narcotics. The “intoxication clause”, contrary to EU law, allows German prosecutors…

Please remember the prosecution and subsequent bankruptcy of the company Green Pioneers was based on the ” intoxication clause”, a clause now described as “senseless” and soon to be deleted from German law. The intoxication clause has caused hundreds, possibly thousands of business closures across Germany resulting in lost taxes and jobs – and all…

Over the last few years many have been disappointed by the vicious hemp prosecutions in Germany. There is no other way to describe them – vicious and mean and even worse – unnecessary. Germany has not been a pioneer of the hemp industry, rather the opposite. Germany has been an unwilling and belligerent participant in…

Prosecutions for CBD continue in Germany. Even though the law is about to change. https://blog.signature-products.com/hemp-legislation-germany-nutzhanfliberalisierungsgesetz/ Author: Luisa Pfau July 18 2024 We have borrowed the article written by Luisa Pfau. We are hoping to provide information about industrial hempmfrom many and varied sources. We trust they do not object to our using their article. Article:…