Berlin: Greens push to legalize hard drugs causes outrage

Berlin - The initiative by the Berlin Greens to release small quantities of hard drugs has met with rejection. Against the background of the increasing number of drug-related deaths in the capital, it is "madness when the state encourages the consumption of hard drugs," said Berlin CDU chairman Kai Wegner to Welt.

Wegner pointed out that the Greens were showing where they were setting their priorities in one of the most serious crisis situations in the Federal Republic. In the case of the Greens, standards are crazy when even heroin injections are no longer taboo.

Criticism also came from Berlin's Interior Senator Iris Spranger (SPD). "I am categorically opposed to the legalization of even small amounts of hard drugs," she told the newspaper.

Greens propagate “right to intoxication”
The reason for the debate in the capital is a position paper by the Greens, which was first reported on by Der Tagesspiegel. Accordingly, not only cannabis should be legalized. The possession of small amounts of drugs such as cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and amphetamines would therefore not be punished.

The leader of the Greens in the Berlin House of Representatives, Werner Graf, justified his party's initiative with an alleged "right to intoxication". That should be a matter of course "in a city of freedom", "it also works without the mentality of a Bavarian village police".

In the past, the red-red-green Berlin state government had already taken steps to implement projects for so-called drug checking. People can have their illegal drugs tested.

Source: Junge Freiheit