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Hemp 🇸🇪 Sweden

European court rejects Sweden's ban on authorised industrial hemp

In Hammarsten, case C-462/01, the Court of Justice held that the EU hemp-market regulations precluded national rules prohibiting cultivation and possession of industrial hemp covered by those regulations. The case concerned a Swedish farmer's 2001 crop, not a right to grow intoxicating cannabis. A September 2004 parliamentary motion confirms that industrial hemp cultivation had again become permissible in early 2003, subject to restrictive conditions.[1][2]

Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Sweden here.

References

  1. Court of Justice — Hammarsten, C-462/01, judgment of 16 January 2003Paragraphs 25–38 and operative rulingarchived
  2. Swedish Parliament — Motion 2004/05:MJ254, Industrihampa (27 September 2004)archived

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