Overview

• The Amtsgericht Augsburg handed the defendant a six-month suspended sentence for offering cannabis and psychoactive substances via multiple vending machines.
• Investigators discovered marijuana products in several automated outlets and live cannabis plants displayed in her shop window.
• The woman told her defense lawyer she trusted her then-partner to ensure legality but the judge ruled she should have investigated the operations herself.
• Her ex-boyfriend, identified by prosecutors as the driving force behind the scheme, is set to face a separate trial on related charges.
• Germany’s partial cannabis legalization allows adults limited personal possession and home cultivation but does not extend to commercial vending machine sales.