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In an interview with the "Passauer Neue Presse" newspaper on Thursday, Germany's federal drug commissioner, Marlene Mortler, said a proposal from a fellow member of the CDU/CSU party aboutdecriminalizing cannabis was not a good idea.
"We don't need any more legal drugs when we have enough problems with alcohol and tobacco," Mortler said.
The proposal, made Wednesday by Christian Democrat Joachim Pfeiffer and Greens party member Dieter Janecek, posed the question about whether making criminals out of people for possession and purchase of the drug for recreational purposes made sense.
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) are the majority party in the German Bundestag, together with their sister party from Bavaria, the Christian Socialist Union (CSU). Mortler is
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