Germany began taking steps toward the legalization of marijuana use. Last Wednesday, April 12, the German Government presented a bill in this regard. The initiative would open up possibilities for acquisition and legal cultivation of that substance within certain limits as of this year.
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According to what was reported by the Spanish newspaper The countryIn a first step, the European country will open the possibility of creating clubs of a maximum of 500 people to plant cannabis. The members of these clubs, who must be over 18 years of age, may buy a maximum of 50 grams of marijuana per month and 25 grams per day. Private cultivation of up to three plants will also be allowed.
“We don’t create a problem, we try to solve a problem. We know that with criminal law we do not get very far. We want to protect youth, we want to combat the black market and drug-related crime,” German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said.
Lauterbach explained that the bill seeks to have control over marijuana in the face of a black market, in which manipulated products that increase health risks are sold. “That is something that we cannot continue to accept. That is why we are committed to a controlled supply of cannabis to adults with clear limits and prevention measures for young people, ”he pointed out.
The German government also proposes creating a pilot project that makes possible legal commercial supply chains that can be better controlled by the State. According to Lauterbach, “the intention is to develop a pilot project that can serve as the basis for a European cannabis policy based on prevention and not on the criminalization of consumption.”
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For his part, the German Minister of Agriculture, Cem Özdemir, said that this is a complex problem not only because there is a very strong debate around it, but also because it touches on European law and international law. “Cannabis use is a social reality, ignoring it does not eliminate it,” the official said.
The bill is the result of a reworking of an original plan, after consultations with the European Commission, and the implementation of one of the plans set out in the coalition agreement of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the Greens and the Liberal Party ( PDF).
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