Czech Republic Bill To Legalize Marijuana Home Cultivation And Allow Psilocybin For Medical Use Heads To President’s Desk

Lawmakers in the Czech Republic have passed a bill to reform the nation’s
drug laws by legalizing simple possession and home cultivation of marijuana
and allowing the use of psilocybin for medical purposes.

One month after the Chamber of Deputies approved the legislation, the
Senate gave it final approval on Thursday. It now heads to the desk of
President Petr Pavel to be signed into law.

The drug policy reforms are part of a package of amendments to the
Czechia’s criminal code that supporters say will reduce spending on
low-priority offenses, lower the number of people behind bars and reduce
recidivism.

“The amendment will help criminal law better distinguish between truly
socially harmful behavior and cases that do not belong in criminal
proceedings at all,” outgoing Justice Minister Pavel Blažek said last
month, according to a translated report from broadcaster Česká Televize
(CT).

With respect to cannabis, the proposal would legalize possession of up to
100 grams of marijuana at home or 25 grams in public. Cultivation of up to
three plants would also be allowed, though four or five plants would be a
misdemeanor and more than that would be a felony. Possession of more than
200 grams would also carry criminal penalties.

✅ Dobré zprávy ze Senátu!
Senátoři dnes podpořili návrhy ministerstva spravedlnosti, které jsou
součástí trestní reformy:⁰⚖️ méně vězňů, nižší recidiva, úspory pro
rozpočet⁰🚫 zákaz propagace komunistického hnutí⁰🌿 legální pěstování až 3
rostlin konopí⁰🛡️ doživotní záznam… pic.twitter.com/mgYTNkIHcu

— Ministerstvo spravedlnosti ČR (@SpravedlnostCZ) July 3, 2025

Zdenka Němečková Crkvenjaš, a Chamber of Deputies member from the Civil
Democratic Party, led push to enact the drug-related reforms in the bill.
On social media after last month’s vote, she said it was the “end of
pointless [prosecution] against seniors who grow cannabis for medicinal
purposes.”

As for psilocybin, the changes would allow the medical use of the
psychedelic substance.

Czechia already has a relatively liberal stance on cannabis, having
legalized medical marijuana and, since 2010, classified possession of up to
15 grams of cannabis for non-medical use as a civil infraction.

Other provisions considered but not included in the newly advanced criminal
code amendment would have legalized supervised drug consumption sites,
where people could used drugs in a supervised setting, and allowed the
facilities to test users’ drugs for contaminants.

The proposal also includes changes to laws around alimony, hate crimes,
political speech and other matters.

Meanwhile in Europe, less than a year after voters in Slovenia approved a
pair of marijuana ballot measures, lawmakers in that country recently introduced
a bill that would regulate cannabis specifically for medical and scientific
use.

The measure, from the Freedom Movement (Gibanje Svoboda) and The Left
(Levica) parties, would legalize cannabis extracts, plants and resin by
removing the substances from Slovenia’s list of illegal drugs, according to
local reports. THC, however, would remain prohibited unless used for
medical or scientific reasons.

“Our goal is to protect patients and cannabis users from unverified
products on the black market, enable uninterrupted medical cannabis supply
to patients and address current legal shortcomings in the field of cannabis
use for medical and scientific purposes,” the Freedom Movement said in a
statement about the proposal.

Důležitá reforma trestního zákoníku prošla Senátem a míří prezidentovi k
podpisu. Děkuji všem, kteří se na ní podíleli, jde o zásadní posun.
Součástí novely je mj. i dekriminalizace konopí. 👍🏻
pic.twitter.com/cxJjdhocJ5

— Petr Fiala (@P_Fiala) July 3, 2025

Introduction of the legislation came the same day as the Marijuana March,
an activist rally organized by the Student Organization of the University
of Ljubljana.

In Germany, following a pivotal national election, parties cooperating to
form a new coalition government announced in April that they’ll conduct an
“open-ended evaluation” of the country’s new marijuana legalization law.

Reform advocates had been watching closely to see how the centrist
coalition would handle the legalization law, which officially took effect
last April. Conservative lawmakers who won the most votes in the election
have expressed their desire to roll back the law, but they were not able to
get another party to agree to that plan as part of the new coalition.

Beginning in April of last year, the legalization of possession and home
cultivation for adults took effect in Germany. Cannabis social clubs also
began to open, providing members with legal access to marijuana products.

German officials last year also convened an international conference where
leaders were invited to share their experiences with legalizing and
regulating marijuana, with a focus on public health and mitigating the
illicit market.

Representatives from Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic
and Switzerland were invited by Germany’s then-Commissioner for Addiction
and Drug Issues Burkhard Blienert to the meeting in Berlin.

The countries that participated in the ministerial have varying cannabis
policies. Malta, for example, became the first European country to enact
cannabis legalization in 2021. Luxembourg followed suit, with the reform
officially taking effect in 2023.

Government officials from several countries, including the U.S., also met
in Germany in 2023 to discuss international marijuana policy issues as the
host nation worked to enact legalization.

A group of German lawmakers, as well as Blienert, separately visited the
U.S. and toured California cannabis businesses in 2022 to inform their
country’s approach to legalization.

The visit came after top officials from Germany, Luxembourg, Malta and the
Netherlands held their first-of-its-kind meeting to discuss plans and
challenges associated with recreational marijuana legalization in 2022.

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