Overview

• He called for strictly tiered age limits and stronger age verification on platforms such as TikTok, pointing to harmful content and widespread underage accounts.
• He described average daily use of roughly eight hours across social networks, gaming and streaming, characterizing the pattern as a behavioral addiction in many children.
• He urged a review of Germany’s cannabis law during its evaluation this autumn, questioning allowances like three homegrown plants and citing signs of medical cannabis being used for recreation.
• He advocated abolishing supervised alcohol consumption for 14-year-olds and pressed for a ban on vape flavors marketed to children.
• His push met skepticism from North Rhine–Westphalia’s media minister over legal and technical enforceability, and he warned of rising availability of highly potent synthetic opioids such as nitazenes.