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Green Group Chairman Werner Graf: "The right to intoxication should be a matter of course in a city of freedom like Berlin"
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The Berlin Greens not only want to legalize cannabis, but also decriminalize hard party drugs such as cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines in the capital.
"The right to intoxication should be a matter of course in a city of freedom like Berlin, it works even without the mentality of a Bavarian village police," said Greens parliamentary group leader Werner Graf on Friday shortly before the so-called Hanfparade on Saturday in Berlin.
Criminal proceedings should therefore be stopped in Berlin even for possession of small amounts of hard drugs - as is the case with cannabis products such as marijuana and cannabis.
In some other federal states, this is common with a gram of cocaine or a little ecstasy.
Police should no longer investigate low cannabis possession
The Greens also want the police not to even investigate cannabis finds weighing up to 15 grams.
The »Joint in the Park« should no longer be pursued by the police and the cannabis should no longer be confiscated.
Criminal law is the "wrong answer for harmless potheads," said Graf.
»The criminalization of drug users is a relic from the last millennium and must end.«
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If the police currently find marijuana on someone in Berlin, they initiate an investigation.
If the amount found is less than 10 grams, the investigations are generally stopped by the public prosecutor's office and under 15 grams are usually stopped.
The police work "actually for the garbage can," according to the Greens.
The federal government, made up of SPD, Greens and FDP, plans to partially allow cannabis and to introduce controlled sales of the drug to adults for recreational purposes in certain shops.
At the end of the year, the traffic light wants to present a draft law for this.
However, some details are still unclear, such as how the drug's supply chains should be tracked or whether there should be a THC upper limit.
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