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Luxembourg to legalise the cultivation and consumption of cannabis at home
Luxembourg will legalise the cultivation and consumption of cannabis at home.
The government Luxembourgish announced changes in cannabis legislation, with plans to legalise the cultivation and consumption of the drug at home.
As part of a package of measures to combat drug-related crime in this country of 640,000 inhabitants, adults will be able to grow up to four cannabis plants per household for their own personal use.
The government will also allow cannabis seeds to be sold in shops, imported from abroad or purchased online.
It will also seek to allow domestic production of seeds for commercial purposes.
Consumption and cultivation will only be permitted "within its four walls", although transporting or consuming up to three grams will no longer be considered a criminal offence, but a misdemeanour.
Leaders of the Greens - one of the three partners in the government coalition along with the Democratic Party and the Socialist Workers' Party - said the decision "represents a fundamental reorientation of Luxembourg's drugs policy", as the government aims to tackle drug-related crime with a more "holistic" approach.
"The war on cannabis has failed," the party said in a statement on Friday.
"The announcements by the Minister of Justice, Sam Tanson, represent a fundamental reorientation of Luxembourg's drugs policy. Cannabis consumption is finally being regulated and a legal alternative to the black market is being created."
The Greens added that the main aims of the new cannabis legislation would be to exempt the production, purchase and consumption of a given quantity of cannabis from punishment, to steer consumers away from the black market, to reduce the mental and physical dangers associated with it and to combat acquisitive crime.