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Berlin, Germany – Smoking weed will soon be legal for over-18s in Germany, but addiction experts are calling for more prevention efforts to ensure young people are protected from the dangers of cannabis use.
“Access to the product will be easier, its image will change and become more normalised, especially among young people,” Seidel said, adding that she expects to see an increase in cannabis use “at least initially”.Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, a physician himself, acknowledges cannabis can be “dangerous” especially for people under the age of 25 whose brains are still developing.
The new legislation has some safeguards to protect young people, including a ban on smoking cannabis within 100 metres of a school, kindergarten, playground or sports centre.Seidel, who works at the Tannenhof Berlin-Brandenburg drug rehabilitation organisation, is one of just two staff members who visits schools in the capital and surrounding areas to talk to young people about drug addiction and prevention.
The federal centre for health education, linked to the health ministry, told AFP it will “assume its responsibility by expanding its prevention offers”.
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