During the first three full months following Germany’s enactment of the CanG adult-use legalization law (Q3), legal medical cannabis imports increased by over 70% compared to the previous period. The first provisions of Germany’s CanG law, which removed cannabis from the nation’s Narcotics List, took effect on April 1st, 2024.
Germany’s Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) recently published medical cannabis import data for Q3 2024, with the BfArM graph below showing “the total amount of cannabis imported quarterly from abroad to Germany for medical and medical-scientific purposes in the form of dried flowers (in kg )”:
“The following figure shows the total amount of cannabis imported into Germany from abroad for medical and scientific purposes in the form of dried flowers and extracts on a quarterly basis. The dried cannabis flowers are included as a weight quantity (in kg ), the extracts as a weight quantity of dried cannabis flowers (in kg ) that were required to produce the respective extracts.” states BfArM (translated from German to English):
