Drying up the black marketThe Czech center-right governing coalition has now started drafting legislation to fully legalize products containing THC."Despite the previous decriminalization, we still have a black market, there is no official production and no quality control, just as there is no control of sales to young people under 18," Jindrich Voboril, the Czech drug commissioner, told DW.Hoping to reduce risksAt the end of September 2022, the government in Prague commissioned Voboril to draft a law to legalize hemp.Voboril, himself a member of Prime Minister Petr Fiala's liberal-conservative Democratic Citizens' Party (ODS), is convinced though that "if the state legalizes drug use and gets it under its control, the risk of addiction will decrease."According to Voboril, the Czech Republic is coordinating the drafting of the legalization law with Germany, where the federal government is also planning to legalize cannabis: "Our colleagues from Germany want hemp for the German market only to be grown and processed within Germany and that we do the same."