State Parliament President Ilse Aigner (CSU) is now aiming for a weed ban on the entire state parliament grounds. Aigner said at the beginning of the plenary session on Thursday that she wanted a general ban on cannabis on the Maximilianeum grounds, so she was having the legal situation checked.
A ban would not be easy given the federal cannabis legalization law, she added. This must be adhered to, but at the same time they want to ensure health protection and the protection of children and young people. Smoking cannabis in the interior of the state parliament is already prohibited.
The state parliament administration recently declared that it did not want to change the house rules – despite the announcement by a Green MP that he wanted to smoke a joint on the state parliament grounds. No separate rules will be issued for this.
Passau Green Party member of the state parliament Toni Schuberl announced on Facebook last week that he wanted to smoke a joint on the grounds of the Maximilianeum. On Friday he wrote on Facebook that he had also implemented his plan: “Of course I will do what I announce!” He also distributed photos that showed him smoking outside the parliament building.
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In doing so, he angered the CSU, which had fought in vain against the nationwide partial legalization of cannabis. CSU boss Markus Söder therefore called on his party colleague Aigner to take action and ban weed smoking in the state parliament through house rules: “Now what is missing is the Bavarian state parliament to also say that the dignity of the House is violated if any Greens think so “To be able to smoke weed there.” That couldn’t be the case in the long term.
Aigner criticized Schuberl directly on Thursday: He held up a joint in the plenary hall and later smoked it on the south arcades, accompanied by a television team. Aigner said: “As I understand it, holding up a drug demonstratively in the plenary hall is not at all acceptable – not among us, and especially not when students are watching.” That was the case last week. Such “advertising” for intoxicants is clearly the wrong signal. Aigner warned that personal elation could also be expressed differently in the state parliament.