Lower Saxony
“Great feeling” – cultivation club is giving out cannabis for the first time
Cannabis cultivation clubs have been approved since the summer. In Ganderkesee near Oldenburg, cannabis is now being legally distributed to members for the first time.
For the first time, a cultivation association in Ganderkesee near Oldenburg in Lower Saxony has distributed legally grown cannabis to its members. Michael Jaskulewicz was the first member of the Cannabis Social Club Ganderkesee to receive a few grams of different varieties of the drug. “Being here and picking this up was an absolutely awesome feeling,” he said.
First club with cannabis harvest
Since July, cannabis cultivation associations have been permitted in Germany for the collective cultivation and distribution of cannabis. According to its own information, the club in Ganderkesee was the first club in Germany to bring in a legal cannabis harvest.
According to a spokeswoman for the Federal Drug Commissioner, no other association is known to have started harvesting earlier. However, she pointed out that the authority does not have any official information about the harvest situation of the individual growing associations. It is known that the club in Ganderkesee is very advanced.
Members come from the middle of society
“Our members come from the middle of society,” said club chairman Daniel Keune. The age range is from 18 to 70 years, from employees to entrepreneurs.
The association has been dealing with the issue of legalizing cannabis consumption in Germany for two years, said Keune. Partial legalization enables preventative health protection because the association guarantees that the cannabis supplied is safe and without any additives. “The health protection that we can provide has motivated us.”
No more dirty stuff from the street
Because he was one of the club’s very first supporters, he was allowed to pick up the first grams of the drug, said Jaskulewicz. He had already smoked in the 1990s, but stopped after he got contaminated cannabis on the street: “After that I felt very dirty and I thought, you won’t do that anymore.”
The recent discussion about the partial legalization of cannabis made him think. He decided not to drink beer in front of his five-year-old child. “I would like society to go in this direction and consider that cigarette consumption and alcohol consumption are also things that can be avoided in front of children.”
Cannabis Social Club Ganderkesee
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Source: Stern
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