This smacks to us of a behind the scenes request by Beijing with the Germans acquiescing.
Not only is it sad he said this , it is sad that he felt tha he had to say it.
SHANGHAI, April 15 (Reuters) – Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday reassured Chinese students in Shanghai that they did not have to smoke cannabis if they studied in Germany and that Germany had legalised cannabis hoping that consumption would go down.
Scholz made the comments in response to a question from a student at Tongji University, who asked whether he would have to smoke cannabis if he studied in Germany, as the drug was not legal in China.
We don’t want more people to consume cannabis, we want fewer people to consume cannabis, we want there to be more public education about it,” Scholz said.
“The answer is very simple: don’t smoke. I’ll be 66 this year and I’ve never smoked cannabis.”
