Drug policy reform

Germany embarks on a groundbreaking shift in drug policy as it implements new legislation aimed at partially liberalizing the cannabis market. With the enforcement of this law, individuals will now have regulated access to marijuana, albeit under stringent conditions, marking a significant departure from previous approaches to drug regulation.

Three people were detained yesterday because they smoked marijuana in front of the National Assembly, FOCUS reported.

The event organised on social media, which gathered many people before parliament, was a protest against the criminalization of marijuana use.

Nathan Larson, a self-confessed pedophile, has run for a congressman in the US state of Virginia in the November election for the US legislature.

He supports the legalization of pedophilia, and has been in prison for 16 months in the past because he has threatened the US president with death, writes USA Today, quoted by FOCUS News Agency.

Decriminalization of the possession and cultivation of small quantities of marijuana for personal needs will make NGOs to protest for another year.
 

The head of the German police union BDC Andre Schultz has called for the use of cannabis to be decriminalized, the Associated Press reported.

LIMA, Peru - Joining several other countries in the region, Peru has become the latest Latin American nation to approve the use of medicinal marijuana for treating serious illnesses.

For the very first time, the British Medical Journal has called on doctors and the medical establishment to back the legalization of drugs, referring to it as their “ethical responsibility.”

In its editorial, the BMJ argues that laws against drug use have harmed people worldwide, while stressing that drug addiction should be looked upon as a health problem.

Thousands are expected to attend a protest for the decriminalization of the use of marijuana this Sunday.

Demonstrators will be demanding an end to legal prosecution for people possessing and growing cannabis for personal use.

They will also go further, calling for the use of cannabis to allowed for medical purposes.