In this book, Matthias Bröckers takes an in-depth look at why cannabis must be legalized. Instead of leaving the field to the wild growth of the black market and organized crime when it comes to hemp and cannabis, youth and consumer protection must finally be taken seriously and guaranteed by a regulated market. It is the only right thing to do, because it signals the departure from a definitively failed policy: the fatal delusion that a drug-free society can be created with the help of criminal law, police and prison. Enough! One hundred years of prohibition, more than 150,000 criminal proceedings per year in Germany and billions of euros wasted in a senseless "war on drugs" are enough. That the collateral damage of this war is much greater than its benefits, that criminal law and criminalization do not solve the "drug problem" and that the policy of prohibition has failed across the board - this realization has now penetrated from United Nations bodies to the district parliaments of major German cities, it is shared by representatives of the medical profession as well as police chiefs, by students as well as professors. Many politicians, decision-makers, media people across all parties are also well aware of the fatal failure of the "war on drugs," but they usually call for its end only after they have already given up their posts as presidents or ministers. Attacking the dogma of prohibition is still poison for political careers. This taboo must fall.

Publisher Westend Verlag

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