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They fucked up by not legislating a model for dispensaries or another distribution model outside of medical. A quick look at the money being made on recreational cannabis dispensary taxes in California, Washington and Colorado should have provided impetus for the government here to get in on the action. So much money being left on the table. Alas, Germany continues to live in the 20th century with its glacial approach to modernizing laws and infrastructure for the 21st century.
They - being the coalition - had and still have a problem with finding a solution that won't get them in trouble with EU laws.
They also want to establish another distribution system but early on other EU states were promising to sue Germany for breach of EU laws when the first models of sale were discussed.
On the other hand the legalisation of Cannabis is one of the promises made to voters (also by FDP who seem to have swayed a lot of voters with such a promise) that the coalition needed to fulfill this promise at least partially before the new election. At the moment the opposition (CDU/CSU as the party that's still a democratic option and the AfD which might get enough votes to gain influence) is leading in polls and they're against legalisation.
Between a rock and a hard place they chose to bring only 'the first pillar' of their planned law and they are still trying to find a way to install a distribution system as 'the second pillar'.
I found a FAQ page but it's german only.
https://www.bundesgesundheitsministerium.de/themen/cannabis/faq-cannabisgesetz.html