Cannabis legalization
Union: Cannabis law breaks international law
The CDU and CSU have been campaigning against the traffic light plans to decriminalize cannabis for months. photo
© Lino Mirgeler/dpa
The CDU and CSU have been campaigning against the traffic light plans to decriminalize cannabis for months. In Brussels, the leaders of the federal and state parliamentary groups are not yet giving in.
It goes on to say: “The UN drug control bodies assess comprehensive cannabis legalization, as intended by the Federal Government, in ongoing decision-making practice as a breach of the UN Convention on Drugs.” Since the European Union has been a party to the central UN Convention on Drugs since 1988, its regulations are also part of European law.
Furthermore, the cannabis law also violates the so-called Schengen Implementing Convention of 1990 and the Council Framework Decision 2004/757/JHA of 2004. “The federal government would therefore be violating European law and provoking infringement proceedings against the Federal Republic of Germany.”
The chairmen of the CDU/CSU parliamentary groups in the German state parliaments, the German Bundestag and the CDU/CSU group in the EPP parliamentary group are therefore calling for a stop to the law in the Bundesrat’s mediation committee in their paper: “This is the only way to avoid damage to those in particular young people in Germany. This is the only way to avert a blatant breach of international and European law, and a corresponding loss of Germany’s reputation. The Federal President must refuse to sign such a law.”
“The traffic light wants to push through the cannabis law against all social and party-internal resistance and with an incredible ignorance of medical advice,” said the Bavarian CSU parliamentary group leader Klaus Holetschek of the German Press Agency. Even the Federal Ministry of Health’s own studies have predicted that consumption among young people will increase. “We will examine all legal options and at the same time try to bring the project to the mediation committee with other federal states in order to stop it.”