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Cannabis is NOT legal in Germany

It is clearly illegal to own, grow or trade cannabis in Germany: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/kcang/__2.html

It is only legal to own 25g for personal consumption, 50g at home, and to grow up to 3 plants https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/kcang/__3.html

Notice that it is only legal to consume it for yourself. If someone owns 20g and plans to smoke 0,2g together with a friend, the possession of the whole 20g becomes illegal before cannabis is even shared. If you subsequently consume the cannabis together with a friend, you commit a crime, which is theoretical punishable by up to 3 years in prison: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/kcang/__34.html.

Plus, there is no way to legally buy cannabis. 2A02:908:E855:AA00:B92C:3E25:926D:93CC (talk) 10:04, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, it's definitely restrictive in some ways but the coloring is consistent with other countries in the table / map and almost all of the media reporting I have seen refers to Germany as having "legalized" cannabis.--Jamesy0627144 (talk) 22:52, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Cannabis is NOT legal in Turkmenistan either?

The map has Turkmenistan in blue. Cannot find any results corroborating, only results insisting illegal, as well as the Turkmenistan row of the table. Was that edit in error? 146.90.88.182 (talk) 20:42, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Correction to ACT legality status

As per the ACT government website,

"Cannabis is not legal in the ACT, it has been decriminalised. The ACT has removed penalties for adults who possess or use small amounts of cannabis so they can get support without fear of being put through the justice system."

This page's map depicts the ACT as having legal cannabis, when the ACT has explicitly denied this. It should therefore fall into the "Illegal, but decriminalized" category. Powwu (talk) 16:51, 11 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Most reporting I have seen refers to cannabis being "legal" in ACT (see articles below), and that is consistent with how other countries such as Georgia and South Africa are colored in the table and on the map. I would stick with classifying it as "legal" because the word "decriminalized" as it is most commonly used refers to a policy where there is still some kind of penalty for possessing small amounts. Perhaps the website is just meaning to say that there is no legal regulated cannabis market in ACT, or they have some other reason for wanting to use that terminology.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-49820735

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/25/australias-capital-city-legalizes-marijuana.html

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/sep/25/cannabis-set-to-be-legalised-in-australian-capital-territory-for-personal-use

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/world/australia/marijuana-cannabis-recreational-legal.html

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-cannabis/canberra-becomes-first-australian-city-to-legalize-marijuana-for-personal-use-idUSKBN1WA14X

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/25/asia/australia-cannabis-legal-intl-scli-hnk/index.html

https://www.emcdda.europa.eu/news/2019/australian-capital-territory-legalises-personal-cannabis-growing-and-consumption_en

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-25/act-first-jurisdiction-to-legalise-personal-cannabis-use/11530104

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-canberra-capital-cannabis-recreational-use-legal-marijuana-a9120126.html

--Jamesy0627144 (talk) 04:43, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Crimea on map

An editor removed the map saying there's something wrong with its depiction of Crimea. I don't see any borders or labels and don't see an issue. Please explain here what's the problem. ☆ Bri (talk) 01:30, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you’ve seen Crimea shown as part of Russia on a map, that’s not accurate. According to international law and the position of most countries, Crimea is part of Ukraine. In 2014, Russia illegally annexed Crimea, but the international community didn’t recognize this action.

So, if someone is depicting Crimea as Russian, it might be a mistake or even an attempt to spread misinformation. Officially and according to international standards, Crimea remains Ukrainian territory, and it’s important to keep that in mind to avoid misrepresenting the facts. Salto Loco (talk) 20:32, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I hear what you are saying but there is also an argument against it. Matter should be taken up at File:BlankMap-World.svg instead, which is the map that File:Map-of-world-medical-cannabis-laws.svg is derived from.-Jamesy0627144 (talk) 04:43, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Medicinal cannabis is not legal in Norway, only kind of

No real cannabis products has market authorization in Norway. The only one that does is Sativex, which is a synthetic product and is only approved for MS patients. Most people would not count that as legal medicinal cannabis.

In theory proper medicinal cannabis can be obtained legally with a prescription from a specialist doctor at a hospital. For the specialist doctor to be able to write this prescription they have to apply for an exception to the normal procedures called "compassionate use, named patient", which is the same for ANY drug not authorized in Norway. In reality very few people has gotten this prescription, and the only doctors who did write those has recently stopped doing so. This is probably because their clinic would have to cover all the expenses for the patient.

In reality patients obtain their medicine illegally, or if they are healthy enough and have the economic power to do so travel to the Netherlands or Denmark to get a prescription there. (Because of EEA travelers may bring 2 weeks use of narcotic medicine for personal use, upped to 1 month use with a stamped document from a Norwegian doctor) 85.164.115.63 (talk) 22:34, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Luxembourg vs. Italy

I don't understand why Luxembourg is green and Italy yellow, while it's basically the same policy? Luxembourg should be yellow as well, it's not truly legal. 78.141.171.54 (talk) 11:40, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]