According to official information, cannabis is the most popular illegal drug in this country.
"Cannabis continues to be the most widely traded and consumed type of drug in Germany," said the President of the Federal Criminal Police Office, Holger Münch, on Tuesday in Berlin at the presentation of the 2020 report on drug crime.
The authorities were therefore aware of 31,961 cases of cannabis trafficking, with amphetamines there were 5581 recorded offenses.
In total, the police counted 365,753 drug trafficking cases in the past year, 1.7 percent more than in 2019.
The statistics only show cases that were known to the police authorities.
Since there are usually no reports, most crimes are discovered during controls, said Münch, which goes hand in hand with a high rate of clarification.
At the same time, the dark field is large.
According to the report, drug trafficking is the largest area of activity for organized crime.
"We are seeing an increasing number of drug-related crimes in Germany and the EU, which are being carried out more and more brutally, more and more unscrupulously," said the German government's drug commissioner Daniela Ludwig.