Austria: government seeks to ban cannabis clones and seeds

Yesterday, we were telling you about a Austrian soccer club sponsored by a cannabis cuttings company. The Austrian government has a different vision of this market: banning the sale of cannabis seeds and clones.

Austria's new «right-wing» government recently unveiled its government program for the period 2017-2022. It was at the turn of the page 44 of the document which reads «Verbot des Verkaufs von Hanfsamen und Hanfpflanzen» (Ban on the sale of hemp seeds and hemp plants).

As we reminded you yesterday, the cannabis is illegal in Austria, However, cannabis cultivation is permitted on condition that the plants do not flower. Clone stores abound around Vienna, fuelling an entire hemp industry in which cuttings are grown and sold, enabling all Austrians, and even those who are not familiar with the plant, to grow and sell their own cuttings. at the hemp embassy, to grow their own cannabis.

One of the best-known distributors is Hanf Garten and their choice of variety is... interesting and out of the European hemp varieties 🙂 It goes without saying that Austrian gardeners don't stop at the growing phase, but go on to flower well, allowing them to have quality domestic cannabis.

As for the government's desire to ban the sale of clones and seeds, the project is hardly feasible. according to Arge Canna activists. This prohibition «as a reform of the drug law would only be accompanied by a significant economic decline and would go hand in hand with immense losses in terms of employment and taxes.»

The government program makes no distinction between industrial and psychoactive varieties, turning all hemp growers into drug traffickers - a mistake already made by the previous government. Minister of Health by attempting to amend the drug law this summer. His project never saw the light of day.

A majority of Austrians today are in favor of legalization.