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Last year, Americans spent more money on legal cannabis than on chocolate or beer. Even local pain relief products such as painkillers lagged far behind the amount of money spent on cannabis in 2022. A report by MJBizDaily shows that Americans will spend about $30 billion on legal marijuana in 2022. In the US, about $20 billion was spent on chocolate. According to the report, sales of legal cannabis could reach $57 billion by 2028. The recreational use of marijuana is legalized in more than 20 states and Washington DC. In addition, 18 states allow the medical use of cannabis. The product is still illegal in 12 states. Attempts are being made to legalize cannabis throughout the country.
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https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-20000...2q_KMvxZP8A6HI Cannabis was supposed to be legalized in Germany, but the bill was watered down. Does that mean that the citizens' initiative cannot progress in Finland as well?

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WENT AGAIN as always. Back in January, Germany planned to become a pioneer in Europe as a country where the cultivation and sale of cannabis is allowed.

In April, Health Minister Karl Lautenbach announced that there would be no full exemption. Germany is moving forward in small steps.

The most important reason was apparently that Germany did not want a collision with the EU Commission. According to the policy made by the EU Council, i.e. the member states, in 2004, the member states must limit the trade in drugs, i.e. also cannabis.

A somewhat similar thing happened in Luxembourg, which announced in 2018 that it would decriminalize cannabis. In the end, the release was half way. The QUESTION is topical in Finland as well, as the citizens' initiative to liberalize cannabis reached the required 50,000 signatures on April 20. So it will proceed to the parliament's consideration.

Do the experiences of Germany and Luxembourg mean that citizens' initiative is equal to nothing?

Despite the setbacks, there is a clear direction for the liberalization of cannabis in Europe. Malta was the first EU country to allow the use of cannabis for adults in 2021. In Malta, you can even order semi-synthetic HHC cannabis with Wolt home delivery. The Czech Republic is also planning to liberalize in 2024.In several countries, the possession and use of small amounts is already frowned upon. For example, in Spain, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Portugal, the use of cannabis is allowed or not punished.

This is called decriminalization. Legalization would go further and roughly mean that cannabis could be bought in a store and taxes would be paid.

It is difficult to draw an exact line. Of course, the use and sale of even legal cannabis would be regulated and restricted, just like alcohol and tobacco. Would only possession be legal, or could cannabis also be sold and bought? If you could, should you go to the milk shop, Alko or the pharmacy? Would the age limit be 18 years or 20 years? How would cannabis be taxed?

Since legalization is much more complicated than it sounds, the proponents of liberalization like to talk about the regulation of cannabis.

EUROPE is following the American continents in the release of cannabis. Uruguay was the first to legalize cannabis in 2013, and Canada was the second in 2018. In the United States, cannabis is now legal in 21 states.

Experiences from America are downright flat compared to how much fierce discussion has taken place on the subject. For example, the Cato Institute stated in its report in 2021 that almost all arguments of both defenders and opponents are overkill.

The use of cannabis by adults may have slightly increased due to legalization, but the use by young people has generally decreased. Traffic accidents have not increased. Crime has not increased, but neither has it decreased, as defenders of legalization often argue. The importance of legalization for the economy is usually non-existent and at best insignificant, because even legalization is a rather marginal phenomenon.(?) According to the Cato Institute, the only significant consequence is tax revenue, which legalization has generally increased even more than expected. They still do not fill state or municipal coffers. In the United States and Canada, cannabis revenues are often earmarked for harm reduction. AT THIS moment, there is no information about the composition of the Finnish government, but the government will be led by the largest coalition that won the election. This is bigger than the EU and probably already an insurmountable obstacle to the success of the law, because the coalition and its chairman Petteri Orpo are against the legalization of cannabis. So it seems unlikely that the initiative would end up anywhere near the EU Commission.

In Finland, cannabis has not raised many emotions in the election exams. The previous citizens' initiative to decriminalize cannabis advanced to the parliament in 2019 and failed in the law committee's report. In 2021, at the Green party meeting, it was decided to support the legalization of cannabis and the decriminalization of all drugs. Already in 2014, the Greens outlined in their target program that "the use of cannabis, possession for personal use and cultivation must be abandoned under criminal law".

The discussion may still be more lively than in 2019, because Kokoomusnuoret also now supports the legalization of cannabis.

In Germany too, it was the parties' youth organizations that pushed the cannabis issue forward. In the end, the regulation of cannabis was one of the few issues that united the governing parties.

The Left Alliance, on the other hand, supports removing the criminalization of drug use. The party does not support the legalization of cannabis

However, even the small steps chosen by GERMANY are significant reforms and will affect the future regulation of cannabis in Europe.

According to the plan, an adult in Germany can legally use cannabis at home and grow three hemp plants containing intoxicating THC.

Amsterdam is known for its coffeeshops, i.e. its cannabis cafes. Anyone can buy cannabis from them, which has led to cannabis tourism.Tällaisen Hollannin mallin sijaan Saksaan on ensimmäisessä vaiheessa tulossa Espanjan malli, joka nojaa yksityisklubeihin. Espanjassa kannabista voi käyttää erityisissä kannabisklubeissa, jotka eivät saa tuottaa voittoa.

Tämä on varovainen vaihtoehto, jossa ei tarvitse pelätä kannabisturismin haittoja. Toisaalta verotulot jäävät saamatta. Saksa suunnittelee siirtyvänsä kannabiksen vähittäiskauppaan myöhemmin.

Instead of such a Dutch model, the Spanish model, which relies on private clubs, is coming to Germany in the first phase. In Spain, cannabis can be used in special cannabis clubs that are not allowed to make a profit.

This is a cautious option, where there is no need to fear the disadvantages of cannabis tourism. On the other hand, tax revenues will not be received. Germany plans to move into cannabis retail later.

Correction 30.4.2023 at 12:56: The text previously read that the Left Alliance would support the legalization of cannabis. The Left Alliance supports the removal of the criminalization of drug use. The party does not support the legalization of cannabis.

Adjustment 30.4. 2:36 p.m.: Edited section from the Greens' line to cannabis. Contrary to what was previously reported in the article, already in 2021, the Green party meeting decided to support the legalization of cannabis and the decriminalization of all drugs. The Greens also outlined in their target program in 2014 that "the use of cannabis and the possession and cultivation of cannabis must be abandoned under criminal law".
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Timo Haara from Keitel has paid a heavy price for growing hemp, but still continues his fight.
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The fight continues, even though the police come at regular intervals to collect his harvest and threaten to add more thickness to the bundle of preliminary investigation papers created over the course of six years.


- I will continue this fight because I believe I am right, stresses Haara.

According to EU agricultural regulations, hemp is an agricultural plant eligible for subsidies.

The Swiss and Estonians have brought cannabis tea and energy drinks to the market, the Dutch are getting rich by producing medicinal cannabis.

- I don't understand why Finland doesn't know how to take advantage of the opportunities related to cannabis. Why do we pay for a medicinal product to the Dutch, when we could just as well grow it here ourselves.

- Hemp is a versatile plant, the large-scale utilization of which could guarantee a good future for the countryside and solve the problems of the Finnish economy. The annual impact of cannabis on the national economy could well be in the order of three billion euros, Haara calculates.

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Hemp is not a newcomer to the fields of Pohjois Savo. The branch presents a map that shows e.g. Locations of 19th century hemp plantations. Keitele is well represented on that map.

- The previous generations of my family were boat builders and hemp growers. Ropes and fabrics were made from hemp, boats and houses were covered with hemp fiber, food was obtained from protein-rich seeds, hemp oil was burned in lamps and old men burned plant shoots in their chimneys. Hemp was not a problem, but a vital plant. Here it went by the name Savo palmu.

Hemp only disappeared in the 1970s, when cannabis was also criminalized in Finland.

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Haara emphasizes that he is not a drug grower, but an agricultural producer and plant breeder who has tried to develop a hemp variety that is successful in Finland's conditions.

- I believe that Finland can find a new Nokia in organic products. In that spectrum of organic products, hemp is an important factor that many opportunities await to get benefitted.
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- Hemp fibers are already widely used in many countries. For example, in many cars, the door upholstery bases are made of hemp fiber. Pulp makers have also been interested in hemp fiber. Unfortunately, the situation we have is that domestic industry cannot access domestic, legally grown raw material.

Although Haara emphasizes the agricultural effects of hemp, he does not underestimate the intoxicating medicinal properties of the plant either.

- Doctors widely recognize the benefits of cannabis, and even in Finland there is already quite a large number of those who receive medical cannabis to treat their illnesses and pains. That drug would definitely be worth growing legally in the country and, in addition, striving to develop products for the export market as well.

- I firmly believe that cannabis should be liberalized and legalized in Finland. Cannabis could be taken to Alko or a pharmacy, and the state would receive sales revenue from production and trade. The current system ensures that only criminal organizations benefit from cannabis, emphasizes Haara.


More than 2,000 pages of preliminary investigation material have accumulated from Timo Haara's educational experiments. The Sisu dog has been his master's company in greenhouses and hemp fields, and now he was needed to help in the evaluation of legal material. KALEVI TITINEN
The branch has paid a heavy price for its hemp war. The account includes one two-year unconditional prison sentence, of which he served eight months. Examinations have also been carried out for which it has been decided not to press charges, because the investigators are convinced that Haara has not grown his plants for the purpose of drugs.

The worst punishment, however, has been the loss of custody of the daughter. In the divorce process, which turned into a dispute, the father's cannabis talks and parenting experiments were interpreted as the father's defeat.
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Today on TV: The authorities are sabotaging Keitele's hemp farmer Timo Haara's life's work: "I'll grow as long as I can!"
Keitel-based hemp activist Timo Haara made headlines ten years ago when the police seized his hemp plantation.

Hemp activist Timo Haara assures that hemp is a great useful plant that could be Finland's next economic locomotive. YLE
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All these years, Timo Haara has pushed for the legalization of all hemp or cannabis cultivation for oil, fiber, bioenergy and medicinal use. He has aimed for this by growing different varieties of hemp without asking the authorities' views and without raising EU subsidies. Based on the law, the authorities shouldn't even have anything to do with Haara's cultivation, because he hasn't grown hemp for drug use.
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However, the interpretation of the law by the local authorities and the view of Timo's operations have been different, and so one obstacle after another has always stood in the way of harvesting.

The evening's documentary follows small farmer Haara's desperate struggle against state power.

- I will grow as long as the spirit lasts! Haara roared at the TV cameras 10 years ago, when his one-man fight became known to the whole of Finland.

Haara's ancestors cultivated hemp in Savo already in the 17th century. However, a law change in the 1970s turned the useful plant into a drug. Haara reminds us that cannabis-based bioenergy could still be the savior of the earth and humanity and Finland's new Nokia.

However, civil disobedience had big consequences for Haara. Since his hemp plantations were not tolerated in Finland, he acquired a field in Estonia.

- I had a six-hectare cannabis sativa plantation in Estonia. It has been established there that it is okay to grow cannabis. A much smarter nation than us Finns, says Haara.

When the Finnish authorities contacted Estonia, Haara also lost its Estonian plantation. The Court of Appeal found Timo guilty of a serious drug offense and gave him an unconditional prison sentence of 1.5 years. In total, Haara has been sitting in the castle for three years because of hemp.

Docstop: Hemp man against the state on TV2 today at 21:50.
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Timo Haara has grown hemp completely openly. The man has received, among other things, a prison sentence and one decision not to charge. Even now, a preliminary investigation is underway into his educational activities. JUHA POUTANEN
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The mayor of Keitele, Eero Ryhänen, goes quiet.

- I will not comment on this at all, Ryhänen says.

The question has been asked whether the municipal manager has heard about Timo Haara's plan from Keitele to establish a medical cannabis grower in the community. Haara then tells Savon Sanomat that the matter has been discussed with the mayor as well.

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Timo Haara is a well-known man in his home region, but soon his story will also be known behind the big box. The documentary film Kasvukausi about the branch will premiere on Friday, February 8 at the Bloody Hero International Film Festival in Phoenix, USA.

- The story is about a man who grows cannabis. It's not a pro-cannabis story, says Sampsa Huttunen from the Helsinki-based Reactor Films, which produced the film.
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The hemp farmer who sat in prison experienced another setback, but does not give up
Timo Haara, a hemp farmer who appeared in a documentary film and was in prison, lost the barn he used as a maintenance building, but still plans to continue growing hemp.

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The municipality of Keitele owns a barn, which farmer Timo Haara has used, among other things, as a maintenance building for a tractor
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A hemp farmer with a kettlebell, who often appeared in public, gets evicted from his barn. The municipality owns a barn, which farmer Timo Haara has used, among other things, as a maintenance building for a tractor, for processing hemp and recycling scrap cars.

Haara has rented a barn, but the lease ended at the turn of the year and Haara had to empty the barn by the end of February. However, this did not happen, so according to the decision obtained by the municipality from the district court, Haara will be evicted from the barn.

The municipality plans to demolish the barn in poor condition, and according to the municipality, the fate of the barn has nothing to do with hemp cultivation and Haara's drug conviction.

- There is nothing more to do with this than the fact that the barn is in such bad shape that they want to dismantle it, states the municipality's technical director Jarmo Kinnunen.

Despite the eviction order, Haara hopes that the municipality will let him keep the barn.

- This confuses the plans for the coming growing season, because I would need replacement premises for tractor maintenance, which is an essential part of the farmer's work, Haara states.

The branch plans to continue growing hemp in Keitele, if it is possible. In his opinion, Savola's farms and fields were suitable for growing hemp. Currently, he has a small patch of land near the barn for hemp.

- I will definitely continue. I've heard that there are waterfront lots going up for sale for cottage garden projects. I offer certified sowing seed for this with a quick schedule. If I had been allowed to keep the barn, I would have welded the rakes of the cottagers in order to make the fields look better, says Haara.

The hemp farmer received a drug conviction
Haara started cultivating oil hemp in Keitele in 2007. The crop received a lot of attention in the community. In the fall of 2009, the police confiscated Haara's 1.7-hectare hemp plantation. He received a one and a half year prison sentence for growing cannabis, for which he spent eight months in prison. The branch sentence is illegal.

The branch emphasizes that it cultivates hemp for medicine and for industrial use as biofuel, oil, fibers and food. He denies that he gave his cannabis plants to anyone for drug purposes. Instead, he has donated medicinal cannabis to some of his friends.

A few years ago, the prosecutor made a decision not to press charges in the drug case concerning Haara, because the hemp grown by Haara was mainly not suitable for drug use. The decision was also influenced by the fact that Haara's hemp cultivation was common knowledge and the man talked openly about his cultivation.

Haara says that the police have destroyed his hemp plantation on several occasions, most recently a few months ago. The police cannot confirm the matter, citing confidentiality regulations. Markku Paksuniemi, the communications manager of the Eastern Finland Police, emphasizes that crop destruction that is part of coercive means is not done lightly. According to Paksuniemi, the decision on the use of coercive means is always ultimately made by the inspector or chief inspector.

Branch: Business opportunity worth millions of euros
The police estimated in their 2009 seizure that Haara's 8,000 kilos of production would have fetched over 80 million euros as illegal narcotics on the street market.

- However, it can be noted that this could have been legal income if a similar amount of legal, processed and packaged medical cannabis had been ready for European consumers. Such estimates can easily be made, a profit of one hundred million is a pittance when it comes to cannabis, says Haara.

When Jarmo Kinnunen, technical director of Keitele municipality, hears about Haara's business idea, he laughs.

- I will not comment, Kinnunen says about Haara's thoughts.

The use of medicinal cannabis is allowed in at least 15 European countries, including Finland. However, the experts interviewed by Yle Uutinen at the beginning of this year do not believe that the use of medicinal cannabis will become particularly widespread.

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Hemp is an agricultural product that is used to make clothing, oil, special paper, and its suitability as bioenergy is also being studied. Hemp has been cultivated for thousands of years. In Finland, hemp was especially cultivated in Eastern Finland, where its cultivation became common in the 15th–16th centuries.

Hemp cultivation declined in the middle of the 20th century and at times its cultivation was completely prohibited. Since the mid-1990s, hemp cultivation areas have varied from less than a hundred hectares to a few hundred hectares. Most of the hemp cultivated in the fields has been processed in Finland, Finola oil hemp, which was developed by Kuopio docent and neurochemist James Callaway.

In Finland, fiber hemp is cultivated mainly in the regions of western and southwestern Finland and North Karelia. Hemprefine, the company that signs fiber hemp cultivation contracts, aims to increase the cultivation area to at least 700 hectares by 2017.

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