Germany’s Justice Ministers Want To Postpone Cannabis Legalization, Citing Thousands Of Amnesty & Expungement Cases
Following Germany’s recent partial cannabis legalization, Justice Ministers from various states joined together to push for postponing its enactment from April 1 to October, according to a statement made by Lower Saxony’s Justice Minister Kathrin Wahlmann, reported Apotheke Adhoc.
Justice ministers argue that the judicial system will be burdened with thousands of cases of people seeking retroactive amnesty or expungement, said Wahlman who also chairs the Conference of Justice Ministers.
“In Lower Saxony alone, we anticipate over 16,000 files due to the proposed amnesty, which will need to be manually reviewed by our already overburdened staff – nationally, this figure is significantly higher,” Wahlman said, writes CannaBizEu.
Last week, another Justice Minister Christian Heinz asked for a fundamental revision of the new law …