Germany's new government announced that it would legalise recreational cannabis for adults in its coalition contract presented in October
Preparing marijuana samples for analysis on Dec. 21, 2021, Sanity Group’s testing and processing facility near Frankfurt, Germany. Germans appear to be coming around to the idea of legalizing marijuana. (Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times)
FRANKFURT, Germany — The first sign that something is different about the centuries-old former winery in a sleepy hillside German village surrounded by grape vines is the door leading to the estate. It is brand-new and reinforced with a steel grate. Behind it, a startup has built a multimillion-dollar testing and processing facility and is getting ready to cash in on Germany’s next big wave: the possible legalization of marijuana.©2019 New York Times News Service