19/12/2023
BEN STEVENS, Business of Cannabis | Europe
2023 has been a milestone year for European cannabis. Europe’s first fully legal adult-use cannabis stores have opened in Switzerland. The first Cannabis Harm Reduction Associations have been licensed in Malta. The Netherlands finally has a legal supply of cannabis to its coffeeshops. France has all but managed to secure a full-scale medical cannabis system, while Germany’s coalition government has dragged the landmark CanG bill through numerous legislative battles, missing the deadline to have it enacted before the end of the year by a matter of weeks.
As Prohibition Partners’ state in their latest Global Report: 4th Edition, progress this year has been ‘incremental, rather than abrupt’.
