The starting signal for cannabis cultivation in your own four walls should be given as early as the beginning of 2024. Experience from the USA shows that legalization could release hundreds of thousands of tons of CO₂.
There is a tent in Herbert Sherbert’s apartment that is humming quietly. Inside there is a bright, blinding light. And the smell tells anyone who has ever been to a Dutch coffee shop what Sherbert needs the light for: he grows weed at home. Herbert Sherbert’s real name is different; he chooses the pseudonym on Instagram to give tips about growing cannabis in your own four walls. It’s called homegrowing. Because his hobby is illegal in Germany, he describes his impressions to the SZ in writing and explains that it all happened a few years ago. And thanks to the odor filter, the police haven’t found out about him yet. The cultivation is currently only noticeable on his electricity bill. According to his own statements, he needs almost 500 kilowatt hours of electricity for one harvest, which is 200 euros in electricity costs.