The German Cannabis Report – what is legal and marketable?
This report explains the current legal situation following the major cannabis reform in 2024 regarding all products and options arising under the Recreational Cannabis Act (KCanG), the Narcotics Act (BtMG), and the New Psychoactive Substances Act (NPSG), including CBD, personal cultivation, cultivation associations, and hemp (40 pages, PDF, multiple appendices).
Author: Kai-Friedrich Niermann, attorney at KFN+.
Contents
I. Introduction
1. Summary
2. Historical Overview
II. Product Categories for the Consumer Market
1. Seeds
2. Equipment for Home Cultivation
3. Cultivation Associations under the KCanG
4. Flowers, Hashish, Resin, Extracts, Concentrates, Edibles, and Beverages
II. CBD Market
1. CBD Oils – Updates from the “Novel Food” Front
2. CBD Cosmetics – New Restrictions on the Horizon
3. CBD Vape Pens – A Niche Market
4. CBD Flowers – Still Complex
5. CBD Edibles and Beverages
III. Hemp Market
1. Hemp Leaf Tea – Still Complex and New Thresholds on the Horizon
2. Industrial Hemp Products – Still in Their Infancy
IV. Findings of the EKOCAN Evaluation Report
About the author
Kai has been a business and corporate lawyer in Germany for 17 years gaining wide range of experiences in the process. He is very familiar with the interconnectivity between national and European regulations, especially in regard to consumer protection, product safety and emerging new cannabis products.
He has engaged in advocacy relating to cannabis beginning in early stages of his studies at Philipps University Marburg when the German Supreme Court ruled that small amounts of cannabis should not be criminalized. After medical cannabis was legalized, Kai started a legal blog (canna-biz.legal) on all the relevant new developments in the emerging cannabis market and became a legal expert especially for medical cannabis and CBD products.
The Law firm KFN+
Kai and his Law firm KFN+ consult major CBD and medical cannabis companies and is legal advisor to the European Industrial Hemp Association (EIHA), which is working on a Novel Food joint application for different CBD products.
