Drug policy of Germany

The drug policy of Germany is considered to be more lenient than that of many other EU countries but still stricter than that of the Netherlands.

In 1994, the Federal Constitutional Court ruled that drug addiction and the possession of small amounts of drugs for personal use were not crimes. In 2000, the law on narcotics (Betäubungsmittelgesetz) was changed to allow supervised injection rooms.^{[citation needed]}

In 2002, a pilot project was started in seven German cities to evaluate the effects of heroin-assisted treatment on addicts, compared to methadone-assisted treatment. In 2009, the positive results of the study led to heroin-assisted treatment becoming included in the mandatory health insurance.^{[citation needed]}

In February 2021, authorities in Germany and Belgium seized more than 23,000 kilograms (51,000 lb) of cocaine, worth billions of euros, from shipments came from Paraguay and Panama in an international operation that resulted in one arrest, a man from Vlaardingen, Netherlands, to become the largest amount of cocaine ever seized in Europe.^[1]

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See also[]

• Drug policy of the Third Reich
• Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany
• Drugs controlled by the German Betäubungsmittelgesetz
• Drug liberalization#Germany
• List of German drug laws