While we are waiting for this month's decision of the German court on the issuing of licenses for the new medical cannabis, another spanner has been thrown into the works...
Is cannabis in trouble in Germany with the pending appointment of an anti-cannabis right-wing politician as the new minister for health in Germany?
Today (Sunday) Germany's SPD members approves a new grand coalition with Angela Merkel’s conservatives, CDU.
She will get a fourth term after her junior partners, the SPD, the social democrats, voted for a coalition deal. The new government could be in place in less than two weeks' time, ending months of uncertainty.
Jens Spahn, the 37-year-old flag bearer for Merkel's party’s (CDU) right wing, will become health minister.
Merkel has already laid out her new CDU government ministers when she succeeds in securing her fourth term. Spahn's appointment is the most notable change among the six cabinet-level posts she had to dole out to members of her Christian Democratic Union.
Spahn, the deputy finance minister, has emerged as a key critic of Merkel’s centrism. His support has been galvanized by national conservatives in the CDU especially since the 2015-2016 refugee crisis, with many in the faction opposed to Merkel’s initial open-border policy.
Spahn has a history of being anti-cannabis, and now we are all left with a big question: how will the fledgeling medical cannabis regime in Germany go in the future if the health minister is anti-weed?
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