Health
Hamburg does not want to accept cannabis legalization
For Hamburg’s Interior Senator Grote, the cannabis legalization planned by Health Minister Lauterbach is counterproductive in its planned form. In his view, the Federal Council should intervene.
The draft law already introduced by the Federal Cabinet proposes to remove cannabis from the list of prohibited substances in the Narcotics Act. There will also be new requirements for ownership and cultivation. The regulations are scheduled to come into force at the beginning of 2024. Monitoring compliance with them would require significantly more effort for the police. In order to be able to take concrete action against Lauterbach’s plans, Grote would like to convert the set of rules, which have so far only been submitted to the Federal Council as an objection law, into an approval law so that the state chamber has a more important say.