Information from Association Legalize it! (November 2024)

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Our Association magazine Legalize it! issue 104 is produced, next week we will print the cover letters and then Fabian and Sven will pack the mailing. We are enclosing our legal overview Shit happens 15, with an addition due to the non-collectability of a small amount of cannabis. Your envelope should arrive on December 11 or 12.

We are taking a few days off over the New Year (December 16, 2024 to January 17, 2025). However, our office will be open every Friday during these weeks.

For next year, we are looking for members who would like to get actively involved. The following options are available:

• We are planning to digitize our archive. This requires employees on site (scanning the articles and other information) as well as employees who label the articles (date, medium), which can also be done online.
• Our wiki needs constant maintenance: be it checking/correcting the translations or checking the links (i.e. whether they still refer to the intended pages).
• A consultation on the proposals of the “Cannabis Regulation” sub-commission is likely to take place next year. Other members are welcome to help with this.
• If you would like to add another topic, you are welcome to send us your suggestions.

Interested? Then please get in touch!

Tomorrow, the first snow is expected to fall in the lowlands. Winter is approaching, the summer months are definitely over. I hope some of you were able to harvest your own crops. I know that some have had a house search because of their balcony plants, then a police interview and will receive a fine. It's still a long way from being legal.

Legal home cultivation would be an important element in making consumers less dependent on the black market with all its negative phenomena. A few thousand study participants can purchase clean weed and clean hash in the cannabis pilot projects: tested, without heavy metals, without additives, without faecal bacteria and without mold. That's great, but that's just it: There are also tens of thousands of people who do not have the opportunity to take part in a trial.

The "Cannabis Regulation" sub-commission should be finalizing its work on a new approach to cannabis these days. I very much hope that it has paid the necessary attention to home cultivation in the three years in which it has been discussing this. And also argues for a rapid introduction of this option.

Because it will be a long time before a comprehensive hemp law has been drawn up and discussed by all authorities. And whether there will be all the necessary majorities? I am in favour of implementing a manageable and rapid partial decriminalization and then gradually progressing towards a comprehensive solution.

Are you looking for gifts, for yourself or for others? We ask you to consider our company members when shopping. You can find the list here. In addition to our private members, our corporate members are an important support for our Association.

If you are already very happy, we would be delighted to receive a donation from you at the end of the year.

32 participants followed our presentations on legalization, hemp culture, THC-prosecution and the pilot projects on 1 November. It was a pleasant atmosphere, interesting questions were asked and we made some new contacts.

Many thanks to our board and Sonia for the organization and help!

You can download the slides of our presentations here download.

You can read about our four presentations in the next Legalize it! 104, which will be published in December.

Hemp greetings

Fabian, Markus, Michael and Sven

Board Association Legalize it!

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