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By: Andreas Schmid
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The CDU/CSU rejects the traffic light's cannabis plans.
Before the planned vote, the Union teased and announced: “This is one of the very first projects that we are reversing.”
Berlin – Cannabis “legalization” is taking shape.
The Bundestag will vote on the law on Friday (February 23rd, 1:10 p.m.) so that it comes into force on April 1st.
The Union is still against it, is now calling for a roll-call vote - and wants to overturn the law again if it participates in the government.
Union calls for a roll-call vote on the cannabis law
“We will request a roll-call vote on this law,” CDU politician Tino Sorge announced to
IPPEN.MEDIA
.
He is the Union's health policy spokesman.
Any political group can request such a roll-call vote.
“All representatives of the traffic light will have to position themselves with their names on this irresponsible project,” says Sorge.
“This will show whether the health and legal politicians in the traffic light coalition actually want to support the law.” The Union hopes to be able to persuade several traffic light MPs to vote no.
There are critical voices about the cannabis law, especially in the SPD.
The domestic politicians Sebastian Fiedler and Sebastian Hartmann publicly announced that they did not want to agree to the law.
“I cannot agree to a law that leads to the decriminalization of dealers and pointless extra work for the police,” Fiedler told
Spiegel
.
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Cannabis law: “One of the very first traffic light projects that we are reversing”
The roll-call vote is one thing above all: a political ploy by the opposition to drive the government ahead of itself.
Because this will almost certainly not stop the cannabis law.
When the Bundestag is full, the traffic light has a majority of 49 votes.
It is unlikely that there will be so many dissenting voices.
There is also the Left, whose MPs are mostly in favor of legalization.
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The Union also knows this.
“In all likelihood, cannabis legalization will find a majority with the votes of the traffic lights and the left,” says Sorge.
“This should not obscure the fact that this is a dangerous and completely unsuitable project.”
The Union's criticism of Traffic Light's cannabis plans is not new.
Now that the law is on the home stretch, the headwind is getting louder.
It is also clear to the CDU/CSU that there will be no such law under Union leadership.
“This irresponsible and dangerous law will be one of the very first traffic light projects that we will reverse after a change of government,” says Sorge.
The CDU health politician Tino Sorge rejects the cannabis law and says: “This will not in the least contribute to drying up the black market or reducing consumption among young people - on the contrary.” © Kay Nietfeld/dpa
Cannabis legalization: law should come on April 1st
The federal government has agreed on a two-pillar model for cannabis legalization.
In Pillar 1, consumption should be decriminalized and home cultivation should be permitted.
This means: No penalties for private consumption, as cannabis is removed from the list of banned substances in the Narcotics Act.
This is planned for April 1st.
Pillar 1 also regulates the purchase of the drug in so-called cannabis clubs; the start date here is July 1st.
Pillar 2 of the Cannabis Act then deals with selected model regions with commercial sales in selected specialist shops, roughly comparable to other countries such as the Netherlands.
However, there is not even a draft law for this pillar.