Overview

• He urges strict, graduated minimum ages for platforms like TikTok backed by effective age verification, while rejecting blanket phone bans in primary schools.
• He describes overuse as a behavioral addiction, citing roughly eight daily screen hours and noting that 42% of ten‑ to eleven‑year‑olds have a TikTok account.
• He calls for Germany’s cannabis rules to be reviewed and tightened, criticizing home cultivation of up to three plants and highlighting suspected misuse of medical prescriptions as flower sales rise about 80%.
• He says he will seek a prohibition on child‑oriented vape flavors such as chewing gum to curb youth appeal.
• He warns of growing availability of synthetic opioids including fentanyl and especially nitazenes with potency around 500 times heroin, as Prien’s expert commission prepares proposals and child‑advocacy groups and officials question age‑limit plans.