Any form of drug ban has failed

"Any form of drug ban has failed in the past" - Greens and left take on the resolution of the criminal law professors

06/04/2014

The German Hanfverband welcomed today's motion of the Greens and the Left. He takes up a hitherto unique resolution to the Bundestag, which is supported by almost half of all German criminal law professors. They question the suitability of drug prohibition and thus the constitutionality of today's drug policy. Therefore, a review of the effectiveness and effects of the narcotics law is called for. With their joint initiative, DIE LINKE and the Greens are taking up this demand of the resolution and placing it on the agenda of the German Bundestag.

Georg Wurth, managing director of the German Hemp Association, explains: "The resolution of the criminal law professors finally lands where it belongs: in parliament, the Greens and the Left are now officially supporting the demands of the criminal lawyers." Now the CDU and SPD must also show their colors Coalition continue to poke its head in the sand or finally be ready to review the effects of repressive drug policies? "

The petition (printed matter 18/1613) was made by MP Frank Tempel and dr. Harald Terpe written in collaboration with the initiator of the resolution Professor Lorenz Böllinger. It will be debated in the plenary session of the German Bundestag at first reading on Thursday, 4/4/2014 towards evening as agenda item 17.

The motion explicitly does not include drug policy positions, but calls for an external scientific evaluation of the impact of the ban on illegal narcotics. Based on this review, scientifically substantiated recommendations for action should be developed. The parties represented in the Bundestag can then decide for which drug policy with all its intended and unintended effects they stand.

The resolution to the deputies of the German Bundestag was signed by 122 criminal law professors. The undersigned want to draw the legislator's attention to the unintentional harmful side effects and consequences of the criminalization of certain drugs. They want to encourage Parliament to consider its constitutional mandate in general and the science-based principles of criminal legislation and criminal policy in particular by setting up an Enquête Commission. [...] (pm)