Possessing and selling cannabis is a criminal offense in Germany.
The new traffic light government of the SPD, FDP and Greens wants to change that - with restrictions.
Munich / Berlin - The consumption of marijuana is allowed in Germany.
However, carrying or even dealing with the substance is illegal and will be prosecuted.
A new law is supposed to overturn this regulation.
According to a report, the traffic light parties want to legalize the sale of cannabis for consumption.
The coalition working group on health and care agreed on this, reported the
Funke media group
.
"We are introducing the controlled distribution of cannabis to adults for pleasure purposes in licensed shops," stated the negotiators of the SPD, Greens and FDP in the result paper of the relevant working group.
This controls the quality, prevents the transfer of contaminated substances and guarantees the protection of minors.
Cannabis: Traffic light parties SPD, FDP and Greens want to legalize marijuana
According to the report, the relevant law is to be evaluated after four years with a view to its social impact.
So far, the sale of cannabis for consumption purposes has been banned in Germany.
The Greens and FDP have long been in favor of legal, regulated trade in cannabis.
A positive financial effect for the treasury is not an argument.
The three parties also want to develop models for so-called “drug checking” and harm reduction measures, the report continues.
With “drug checking”, users can have illegally acquired drugs checked for their chemical composition and thus be warned of particularly dangerous ingredients.
At the same time, the parties want to tighten the regulations for marketing and sponsorship for alcohol, nicotine and cannabis.
"We measure regulations again and again on the basis of new scientific knowledge and align measures for health protection", according to the report in the paper of the traffic light working group.
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The traffic light coalition agrees on the legalization of cannabis.
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Cannabis: NRW Prime Minister Wüst warns against legalization
The North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst from the CDU has criticized the expected cannabis legalization by the traffic light parties.
“I think it's dangerous and at least superfluous,” said Wüst on Friday in the RTL / ntv program “Frühstart”.
He cited the regulations in the Netherlands as a negative example: "Some of the things that you theoretically wanted to achieve just don't work."
For example, it was not possible there to ban cannabis from the illegal area of drug trafficking.
The clan crime in connection with the cannabis trade has exploded, said the CDU politician and added: "I think we really have other worries.
I don't need this decision. ”The controversial topic of cannabis will probably occupy politicians in Germany for a long time to come.
(ck / afp)
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