The leaders of Germany’s coalition government say they have reached a final agreement on a bill to legalize marijuana, resolving outstanding disagreements that had delayed action and setting the stage for a vote in the final week of February and enactment in April.
In a joint statement, leaders of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Free Democratic Party (FDP) and Greens said the proposed regulations “are a real milestone for a modern drug policy that strengthens prevention and improves health, child and youth protection.”
It’s insane to me how far the anti-weed hysteria has spread. Like, i get America is a puritan country that used it to demonize black people and counter culture, there was a lot of effort there to use a spark that already existed, but why does any other country care?
Brother US (and maybe the UK) made the propaganda and the systems of the world, they are gonna be very effective for their goals.
Have you forgotten they are a superpower or something? They are the origin of that kind of red scare propaganda, and they always aimed most of it not at the inside but at everyone else.
It’s certainly a saying here in Europe that we do what the US does ten years later (or that we do what they tell us to do) and it’s a saying because it’s core is true.
Germany had laws against marijuana before the US did
Same reason, to penalize those they want penalized.
I’d expect every shitty regime will have a scapegoat, but not weed. Weed isn’t universally country cultural or anything, every place would have their own trends to target.
Still a good way to persecute the undesirables. Plus you’re underestimating the impact of propaganda
Because the US put a lot of pressure on European countries
I had assumed that’s how it went, too, but Germany had their crusade against marijuana before the US