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Medical cannabis is legal in Germany and adult-use is legal. Below: a free market overview, with the full sizing, regulation and trade data available from PP.
Medical cannabis sales and registered patients in Germany, 2025 actuals and the 2027 forecast. Forecasts to 2030 are in the Germany data pack.
Medical sales, EUR
| Metric | 2025 | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical sales | €836.4m | €1.22bn | €1.48bn | |||
| Patients | 720,041 | 1,046,155 | 1,277,731 |
Forecasts to 2030 — sales, patients and the full Germany series — are in the Germany data pack, or scoped to your question in a bespoke brief.
See the data pack Request a briefSource: Prohibition Partners — Global Medical Cannabis Market Review (2026, updated April 2026) & The European Cannabis Report (2025)
The full data appendix behind the Germany market update — imports, pricing, sizing scenarios, patients and product-level data across 11 sections, updated each edition.
Imports — dried cannabis, annual (kg)
Dried cannabis imports, kg — 2017–2024 actuals
Source: BfArM & Prohibition Partners (2026–2030 model forecast, logistic regression). Actuals to 2025 and the model forecast to 2030 are included in the full dataset.
Imports by country of origin, 2023–2025 (kg)
24 origin countries × 3 years
In the full dataset
Average pharmacy flower price (€ per gram)
17 months × 1 series
In the full dataset
Wholesale flower purchasing prices (€ per gram)
5 quarters × 4 series
In the full dataset
Market sizing scenarios (EUR)
2 scenarios × 6 years
In the full dataset
2026 market size by price & dispensed share (EUR)
6 × 4 grid
In the full dataset
Patient estimates
6 years
In the full dataset
Product counts & pricing by format (May 2026)
3 formats
In the full dataset
Flower SKUs by country of origin (June 2026)
27 origins
In the full dataset
Wholesaler / distributor portfolios — flower SKUs
63 portfolios
In the full dataset
Cannabinoid ratio — flower products
1 formats
In the full dataset
The full Germany deep dataset — imports, pricing, sizing scenarios, patients and product-level data across 11 sections, with CSV export — is sold as a one-off data pack.
Buy the Germany datasetJune 2026 edition.
How Germany’s framework got here, and what moves next.
Medical cannabis legalised
The 'Cannabis als Medizin' law lets physicians prescribe cannabis, with reimbursement through statutory health insurers on a case-by-case basis.
CanG Act in force — pillar one
Cannabis is removed from the narcotics list (BtMG); MedCanG cuts prescribing bureaucracy, while adults gain legal possession and home cultivation under pillar one.
Cultivation associations licensed
Cannabis cultivation associations can apply for permits to grow and distribute to members, with the first approvals in Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.
Federal prescribing review
Officials flagged possible stricter rules after the Q4 2025 review, including limits on telemedicine prescribing similar to Poland's.
Pillar two: commercial pilot programmes
The commercial adult-use pilots envisaged as pillar two remain uncertain under the CDU/CSU-led government.
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Germany’s estimated medical cannabis market size for 2025 is over €670 million.
The market has grown rapidly following the MedCanG law (April 2024), which removed cannabis from Germany’s list of narcotics (BtMG), reducing bureaucracy and launching the industry to new heights.
Germany’s market is the largest in Europe, with a strong supply chain of importers, distributors, pharmacies (retail & online), and telemedicine clinics.
While still import-reliant, domestic production is scaling up to compete internationally.
In the full Germany market data
Sizing, forecasts, pricing, trade flows and licensed operators — verified by PP’s analysts. Available as a data pack.
