Luxembourg ready to move forward on recreational cannabis
This is a promise of the coalition agreement that will have been delayed. But, word of the Minister of Health, the bill relating to the “controlled legalization” of the domestic use and cultivation of cannabis will be tabled in the first quarter of 2023.
The government majority DP-LSAP-Déi Gréng had expressed the will in its coalition agreement 2018-2023. As promised, this mandate would be to draft a law in order to “ decriminalize the production, purchase, possession and consumption of cannabis “. Except that…
Except the two years of Covid have integrated any progress on this file. The Minister of Health, Paulette Lenert, and her colleagues had not, however, failed to revive the subject in October 2021. And the Minister of Justice to even propose, in June 2022, a draft bill.
Since then, the issue of cannabis has been the subject of shadow work. But, at the microphone of Radio 100.7Paulette Lenert announced that the final bill should be presented to the House before the end of March 2023. Presented… not voted.
Points for discussion
Indeed, there is no doubt that the proposals currently on the table will not fail to give rise to debates, modifications and procrastination. It therefore remains to be seen whether the question could be voted on. before the legislative elections of October 2023. Suspense.
Among the advances proposed, Luxembourg intends in particular to enable anyone of legal age who grows up to 4 cannabis plants per household. Domestic production to be done only from seedsand invisibly from public space.
The consumption of cannabis, in public, remains prohibited. And therefore punished. Just as in the case of exceeding the number of plants maintained at home. Even if the state does not count not draw up a list of who cultivates or not.
Possession of cannabis observed on the public road will not lead to a passage before the judges; a taxed warning might suffice. On the other hand, if the quantity found on an individual exceeds 3 grams, there, the case will be presented to Justice.
Driving under the influence of cannabis (like any other drug) will be strictly prohibited. At the wheel of a car as on the handlebars of a two-wheeler.
This point which will imply that the Grand Ducal police have the technical arsenal to identify drivers and pilots who have consumed cannabis and not CBD. Customs have already been tested on their side various devices, to see if the tests will have been conclusive.
In 2021, the Luxembourg Police noted 3,773 drug-related offenses and proceeded to 167 arrests.