The cannabis law came into force on April 1st, which the traffic light government had implemented despite great resistance from the opposition, federal states and associations from medicine, the judiciary and the police. Legalization was celebrated at midnight at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, and activists in many places invited people to smoke weed together on Easter Monday.
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German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach again defended the move. “Today we are ending a failed ban policy,” said the SPD politician to the German Press Agency in Berlin. This is a historic opportunity. “From now on we are combining a real alternative to the black market with better child and youth protection. Things could not continue as before,” added the minister.
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