Since the partial legalization of cannabis, around 1,700 penalties for violations have been issued or redetermined in Saxony. This was the result of a minor inquiry by Left Party politician Rico Gebhardt in the Saxon state parliament. "The judiciary has punctually achieved what the CDU said was impossible," Gebhardt concluded, alluding to the CDU/CSU's strict reservations about the cannabis law.
Nearly 700 people benefit from cannabis amnesty
"By the end of 2024, at least 699 defendants against whom a sentence had already been enforced had benefited from the so-called cannabis amnesty. They were released from a sentence that had already been imposed," emphasized Gebhardt. In at least 1,017 cases, public prosecutors had applied for a new sentence to be set by the court. Most of these had probably led to sentence reductions.
