July 30, 2025
written by editorial team July 30, 2025
As the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) confirmed to krautinvest.de, the ongoing CanG evaluation will be expanded. According to the BMG, the planned interim report will also consider the law's impact on health and youth protection, as well as road traffic, among other areas. The BMG explicitly emphasizes that this expansion of the Ekocan project should facilitate the open-ended evaluation of the KCanG in the fall, as provided for in the coalition agreement. This should also make it clear that, beyond Ekocan, no further evaluation will be initiated by the legislature for the time being.
According to the law and funding guidelines , Ekocan is to evaluate the impact of the consumption bans – particularly the distances to be maintained from schools and other child and youth facilities – on child and youth protection by October 1, 2025. Likewise, the law already stipulates that the quantities of possession and distribution in cultivation associations are to be evaluated by October 1. Now, further topics related to health protection and the impact on road traffic are likely to be added. Since the Federal Ministry of Health points out that the topics are a selection (“among others”), additional topics could be included in the first Ekocan report. In June, Jakob Manthey, Ekocan project coordinator, presented initial insights into the ongoing evaluation at a therapy shop in Berlin. These already take into account the aforementioned points of the expansion.
According to the law, in addition to the initial report, an interim report on the impact of the law, including its impact on cannabis-related organized crime, is to be submitted by April 1, 2026. The final evaluation is to be completed by April 1, 2028 at the latest. In particular, Ekocan is to evaluate how the law affects child and youth protection, (general) health protection, and the development of cannabis-related crime.
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