From
Boris Herrmann and Angelika Slavik, Berlin
A comma has gained some notoriety these days. Because it’s missing. It is missing in the New Psychoactive Substances Act (NpSG): This regulates, among other things, that new variants of already known drugs are also prohibited. Or at least should be forbidden. Because the comma is not where it belongs, certain forms of LSD in Germany could not be as illegal as Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) actually intended. The Ministry now wants to correct this as quickly as possible. Within four weeks, the NpSG should be helped to correct punctuation – and thus the LSD derivatives back to illegality.