Ever since the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) became the largest party in Germany’s ruling coalition government in February 2025, the country’s booming cannabis industry has been bracing for a crackdown.

Even before the election, when the CDU looked likely to capitalise on the political chaos that had preceded its eventual inauguration, the party made its intentions to roll back the recently enacted CanG act as soon as it entered the Bundestag.

In its election manifesto, the CDU/CSU pledged to ‘abolish the previous government’s cannabis law,’ stating that it ‘protects dealers and exposes our children and young people to drug use and addiction’, and its anti-CanG rhetoric predictably accelerated once the results were formalised.

Legislative efforts to make good on their threats and reverse many of the changes which have enabled Germany’s medical cannabis market’s rapid expansion are still in process. Following months of inaction, seemingly immovable barriers to implementation from its coalition partners in the SPD, and millions of Euros flowing into the industry from across the world, the CDU’s die-hard position may be beginning to shift.

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