Thursday, November 18, 2021
Regulated sales according to report
Traffic light agrees on cannabis legalization
According to a media report, the traffic light coalition has agreed to legalize cannabis. In future, adults will be able to buy cannabis for consumption in licensed shops. That could mean a rain of money for the state. “Drug checking” is also to be expanded.
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.
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 pleasure purposes has been banned in Germany. The Greens and FDP have long been in favor of legal, regulated trade in cannabis.
The three parties also want to expand models for so-called drug checking and harm reduction measures, according to the report by the Funke newspapers. 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 findings and align measures to health protection”, according to the report in the paper of the traffic light working group.
According to Study by a research team around Justus Haucap, economics professor at the University of Düsseldorf, the German state would benefit from around 4.7 billion euros annually through the legalization of cannabis. On the one hand, additional income (taxes and social security contributions) would be generated, on the other hand, expenditure would be saved.