Why the Majority of Germans Want Cannabis Prohibition Back

Next Sunday will be a day of celebration for all Germans who want to look backwards into the future of Germany. The polls for the 2025 federal election show that the majority of Germans feel the need to be reined in more tightly by the state.

Free development and self-determination should only be granted to Germans who have no use for it. One week before the election, opinion research institutes are predicting a clear victory for the right-wing conservative and right-wing extremist political camp. Why so many Germans want cannabis prohibition?

Why are Germans against cannabis

The electorate wants an alliance between the CDU/CSU and the AfD that bans everything that even appears to be riddled with left-wing green ideology. Only one in four Germans is stupid enough to give their vote to the angry, hateful AfD.

Even after the election to the 21st German Bundestag on February 23rd, the bourgeois parties’ proportional representation will rule from Berlin to Bonn and into every village and will know how to keep the right-wing extremist AfD’s core population out of power. The Greens and Social Democrats are well aware of their state responsibility not to drive the CDU/CSU into the arms of an anti-democratic party. However, the Union’s loudmouths will have to eat chalk starting next week in order to be able to put together a reliable government coalition.

The Greens and/or SPD will also be forced to make concessions in order to be able to serve up a consensus sauce that is somewhat palatable to all sides at the end of the coalition negotiations with the CDU/CSU. In short, the long story short: Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz will come to an understanding with the henchmen. The question for the cannabis community is now to what extent the potential coalition partners, the Greens and the SPD, will comply with the wish of the Christian Democratic prohibition fanatics to scrap the cannabis law.

Or was the anti-cannabis clamor by Markus Söder (CSU) and Friedrich Merz (CDU) just election campaign noise that will have no consequences given the many other problems that are crippling Germany? Both are conceivable. But the most likely scenario is that the Federal Ministry of Health in the Catholic city of Bonn will be busy working on a reform of the reform in the coming legislative period. The aim, however, will not be to loosen the thumbscrews that are tightened by the current cannabis law, but to tighten them even more.

But despite all the Christian Democrats’ wishful thinking about turning back time and re-criminalizing around five million cannabis consumers, the reality is different. The long-term attempt to ban cannabis from the Germans’ use of hashish and cannabis has already proven to have failed miserably. A relapse of cannabis policy into the good old prohibition era is hardly imaginable even for some conservative Germans.

Germany has not sunk into a drug swamp after the partial legalization, and the black market is losing more and more customers to pharmacies, which can hardly keep up with supplying the boomer and old hippie generation with medicinal cannabis flowers by private prescription. The legal business surrounding the cannabis plant is booming and creating secure jobs in Germany – and this in times of economic decline.

Nevertheless, the danger that Germany will return to the path of vice should not be underestimated. How quickly the wind can change is evident in Argentina and the Lonely States of America. In both countries, angry and hateful citizens have elected right-wing extremists to the presidency.

While one is using a circular saw to cut down all social achievements and make the poor even poorer, the other is raging with a fountain pen, rushing through parliament to sign off on decrees to transform democracy into an oligarchy. Germany has not yet sunk quite so low in the democracy index.

Three quarters of the electorate will not follow the lure of the right-wing extremist hate party AfD, and the Christian Democrats claim that they will never make a pact with “those people”. To what extent doubts about the CDU/CSU’s truthfulness are justified is something everyone can find out for themselves. But one thing should be kept in mind until the vote: the Christian Democrats, like the AfD, want to get their hands on the weaklings.

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