Germany Imported Over 43 Tonnes Of Cannabis In Q2 2025

Germany’s Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) recently published medical cannabis import data for the second quarter of 2025, and once again, Germany’s emerging legal medical cannabis industry set a new record for import totals.

In the second quarter of 2025, Germany imported 43.257 tonnes of medical cannabis products according to BfArM’s data. That is an increase over the previous record set in Q1 2025 of 37.519 tonnes, and a significant increase compared to Q2 2024 when Germany imported 11.634 tonnes of medical cannabis products. Below is a graph of import totals from BfArM:

Canada continues to serve as the top source of medical cannabis imports to Germany, with BfArM reporting that Germany has imported 36.164 tonnes of medical cannabis products in the first half of 2025. By comparison, 25.524 tonnes have been imported to Germany from Portugal in the first half of 2025.

Below is a breakdown of countries of origin for medical cannabis imports to Germany in 2024 and the first half of 2025, via BfArM:

Legal sales of medical cannabis products through pharmacies began in Germany in 2017. Back then, the Netherlands served as the top source for medical cannabis imports to Germany. The same was true for 2018. However, in 2019, imports to Germany from Canada topped the Netherlands and every other country of origin, and that has remained the case ever since.

Germany was already home to Europe’s largest legal medical cannabis market before the nation’s CanG law took effect in April 2024, and as the data demonstrates, Germany’s medical cannabis industry has surged since then. Germany is on pace to eclipse 160 tonnes of medical cannabis imports in 2025 if current trends persist, but given the fact that import totals still appear to be climbing, it will be interesting to see what the actual final total for 2025 ends up being.