It’s as if Luxembourg was only waiting for Germany to move forward on its legalization of cannabis. Announced in 2018 in the Grand Duchy, the desire for legalization had finally turned into the legalization of the personal use of cannabis (consumption and self-cultivation) without a cannabis sales system or Cannabis Social Club.
While the country was still dragging its feet at the start of the year, and assured that it was not certain to “legalize” cannabis before the end of 2023, the recent declarations of the Minister of Health, Paulette Lenert, revive the project, without completely emancipate themselves from the announced deadlines.
On RTL, the Luxembourg radio station, Minister Lenert declared that the pilot project for the legalization of cannabis must pass “quickly” before the Council of Government. The controlled public sale of cannabis should thus, as in Germany, be authorized within the framework of an experiment, before going further.
In June 2022, Justice Minister Sam Tanson introduced a bill that was the first step on the road to legalizing cannabis. Under the blue-red-green government plan, adults were to be able to grow up to four cannabis plants per household from seed.
However, the Luxembourg Council of State recently raised four formal objections to the bill. The Ministry of Justice is now working on changes to the text. This first stage of the parliamentary process must be completed if possible before the general elections on 8th October next. During her interview on RTL, Paulette Lenert did not specify whether the legalization project could also pass the vote in the Chamber before October.
Slowly, but not too quickly either.
