As of: April 2, 2024, 2:42 p.m
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If you want to grow grass, you could also go to Hornbach, Bauhaus and Toom. In order for stores to offer cannabis seeds, something has to happen.
Royal Creamatic or Green Gelato: Grass with particularly colored flowers or the taste of ice cream? If you want to buy cannabis seeds online, you don't have an easy choice. However, Germans can't find anything in hardware stores. They have not yet prepared specifically for the partial legalization of cannabis.
A cannabis plant that could soon be on many balconies in Germany. © IMAGO/KEVIN WHITLOCK/MASSILLON INDEPENDENT
Cannabis seeds and growing materials are missing from the hardware store range
Adults have been able to grow up to three plants of cannabis since April 1, 2024. Hardware stores do not sell cannabis seeds because trading them within Germany remains prohibited for the time being. But growing materials, such as special pots or lamps, are not yet available in hardware stores.
The partial legalization of cannabis has “no impact” on the product range of the Hornbach hardware store. Obi also doesn't want to adjust its range. Toom tells
BuzzFeed News Deutschland,
a portal from
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: “Our (garden) range planning is currently not based on the legalization of cannabis.” What things will look like in the future remains open.
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A hardware store is looking into selling cannabis plants
Bauhaus also does not yet have any seeds or cannabis plants on its shelves. However, the hardware store makes a future sale dependent on “legal and moral aspects”.
When asked by
BuzzFeed News Germany,
it is not only about whether the sale of seeds will be legal in the future, but also what quantities will be permitted. “If there are no practicable solutions for retailers here or if the expected customer demand does not show corresponding potential, this will certainly have a significant influence on the decision for or against the introduction of cannabis as a classic plant product.”
When it will be in the hardware stores in a few months remains to be seen. Until then, “hobby gardeners,” as a dealer told
BuzzFeed News Deutschland
describes private cannabis growers, will have to resort to online shops. Most are based in the Netherlands or Spain. Due to the rush from Germany, items are already sold out and delivery delays of one or two days.