Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Germany to become the world's largest market for cannabis products | DW News" video.

I'm happy to hear that they're finally changing their minds about home growing. legalizing the trade without legalizing home growing is a totally deranged idea, and the current government initially said that that's what they intended to do. it makes sense to require licensing and testing if one grows to sell, but there is absolutely no good reason to not allow people to grow their own weed when they can legally buy weed (it's just a legislative favor done for the cannabis industry, likely to be the result of lobbying from tobacco firms intent on branching out to legal cannabis). there's nothing difficult or dangerous about it that can go wrong. the only possible danger is in smoking moldy weed, but that's an easy mistake to avoid and not a huge responsibility to put on people. restricting the number of plants for private growers is ok, though 3-4 plants per person would be much more reasonable than per household. and really the limit should be slightly higher, since people in germany are likely to grow relatively small plants due to growing mostly indoors and having only a short growing season outdoors. an indoor plant in germany is likely to yield 50-100g, and um to 200g outdoors. in california, which has had a similar plant count limit for a long time (5 or more plants per person I think), the outdoor growing season is so long that plants can grow 3-4m tall and wide and yield a kilo or two each. I would propose a limit of 6 plants per person with plants in the vegetative state (not flowering) counting half. that's still nowhere near a viable commercial growing operation.
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this ranking is most likely the result of each US state being counted as a separate market because it's not federally legal. california is the biggest state market and has half as many people as germany. the number of US states that have legalized it by now and the number of people living in them is quite large, I'm quite sure that it's more than germany's 83 million people (probably about half of the US' 330 million inhabitants). the total US recreational cannabis market is probably already bigger than germany's will be, and it certainly is if you count legal medical weed, because that adds a bunch more states with a lot of pseudomedical consumers. I think there are more prescription stoners in the US than stoners in germany.
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well, america probably only isn't in the running for that number one spot because as long as it's not federally legal, the US only has state-wide legal cannabis markets. california has half of germany's population, so the german market is likely to become bigger than the californian market alone.
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Nicole S that's not a good argument to ban cannabis anywhere, and certainly not in any US states, unless the mormons declare utah to be a theocracy.
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Nicole S no, federal law trumps state law. it's just that nobody is making an effort to codify cannabis legality federally, they'd jusr take the ban off the books. things that aren't banned are legal by default. if the US congress passed a law that states that all americans have the right to grow, use and trade cannabis, then the states would not be able to ban it.
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BBC disinformation the obvious stoner in the german government is robert habeck. ;) scholz is just verbally paralyzed by his compulsive political moderation. he tries to never say anything in order to avoid saying anything that anybody might not like.
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@robinsss the concept of liberty has no legal definition and no rights can be derived from it.
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make that one of those coca drinks instead
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@SungazerDNB you actually should, but I'm talking about coca leaves.
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