Concern within the traffic light coalition that the cannabis law will fail is growing. The Federal Drug Commissioner Burkhard Blienert (SPD) asks the state prime ministers not to slow down cannabis legalization in a letter that SPIEGEL has seen.
The current cannabis policy has failed to achieve its goals and has led to an increase in consumption and an expansion of the black market. The legal effort that the states cited as a reason for a necessary delay in the law was not as great as they thought, writes Blienert.