All flower goes through Germany on its travels, apparently this possibly means that there's an opportunity to filter the better quality flower and send the lower quality to UK
Drier than most and doesn't take to boveda packs, a disappointment being in the mid price point I was expecting a half decent Tangie chem but extremely dry and muted, grinds out to absolute dust even after trying to cure it for weeks.
All flower goes through Germany on its travels, apparently this possibly means that there's an opportunity to filter the better quality flower and send the lower quality to UK
In 2024, the UK’s total medical cannabis flower imports more than doubled, rising from nearly 7 tonnes in 2023 to over 15 tonnes in 2024. For the year to date, the UK has imported just over 2 tonnes, nearly half of which was sourced from Spain. Initially, the Netherlands was the main supplier to the UK, representing the only country to import medical cannabis in 2018, and supplying the vast majority of products through 2019 and 2020, seeing the amount rise by high double digits each year. However, since 2021 this has dropped off a cliff, falling from over 2.6 tonnes in 2020 to just 174kg in 2024. Its key export to the UK is thought to be Bedrocan. Conversely, imports from Australia, Germany, Portugal and Spain have all skyrocketed since 2021. Australian imports have risen from 99kg in 2021 to over 2 tonnes in 2024, while Canadian imports have also risen significantly from 59kg to over 2.5 tonnes in the same period. German imports, meanwhile, have risen consistently since 2021 when it imported 654kg, rising to 884kg, 1.01 tonnes and 1.95 tonnes in the following three years. Portugal has seen a similar trajectory, though like Canada it saw an outsized increase in 2024. In 2021 it imported just 32kg, rising to 162kg in 2022 and 384kg in 2023, but jumped to 2.5 tonnes in 2024. Spain has remained the largest exporter of medical cannabis to the UK since 2021 and has already imported just under a tonne of cannabis to the UK in the first quarter of 2025. In 2021, 666kg was imported from Spain, before spiking in 2022 to 5.8 tonnes. In 2023 and 2024 Spain imported 3.5 tonnes and 4.3 tonnes respectively.