Pro-legalization campaigners welcomed a draft law presented by the Green party on Wednesday that would allow adults to consume cannabis under strict conditions.
Judges in Gelsenkirchen have decided that police were right to confiscate a man's driving license when he was found driving under the influence of cannabis, even though he claimed he hadn't been smoking himself.
For years no-one noticed that the head of the drug squad in Kempten, Bavaria, was on a personal rampage of narcotics- and domestic abuse - until his wife shopped him for the €250,000 brick of cocaine he had stashed. But the local population isn't buying the story.
The German Police Union (DpolG) said on Monday that officers overworked with serious cases and terrorism should no longer be asked to investigate minor crimes.
Police have arrested 15 in raids and confiscated 2.9 tonnes of the main chemical ingredient used to manufacture crystal meth , it was announced on Thursday.
Police in North Rhine-Westphalia seized a truck smuggling 330 kilogrammes of heroin being smuggled in with a 23-tonne shipment of pickled garlic and cucumbers, officials in Essen announced on Thursday.
A nurse allegedly murdered three patients in a hospital's intensive care unit using lethal doses of drugs because he was bored, a court heard on Thursday.
A New York Times editorial on Sunday called for the US to drop its ban on marijuana, calling the strongly-worded law a "laughing stock". Should Germany follow the US states of Colorado and Washington and legalize recreational use of the drug?
A Cologne court is due to make a landmark ruling on whether sufferers of chronic ailments in Germany can grow their own medically prescribed cannabis in home plantations.
A leading German MP being investigated by police for alleged use of crystal meth is said to have used a "tiny amount" of the illegal drug, media reported on Tuesday.
UPDATE: Prosecutors said on Thursday they found no illegal substances when they raided the Berlin apartment of a leading Social Democrat politician Michael Hartmann suspected of buying hard drugs.
A planned taxpayer-funded project in western Germany to get unemployed alcoholics and drug addicts cleaning streets has sparked controversy by offering those who take part beer as part of their compensation.
A landlord has ignited already strained tensions around drug dealing in a Berlin park by telling a newspaper he had banned black people from his pub. But on Tuesday he told The Local he had been misquoted.
German customs officials have intercepted a package addressed to the Vatican containing 14 condoms filled with cocaine, the finance ministry said on Sunday.
