Cannabis Takes Leading Role in Berlin Elections

Berlin will vote for a brand new state Parliament and a brand new mayor on Sunday, and for the primary time ever, cannabis is enjoying a task within the marketing campaign.

Whereas cannabis isn’t the Berlin voters’s chief concern, it is among the most mentioned matters of this 12 months’s marketing campaign. A 2014 coffeeshop pilot program proposal, which might have allowed Dutch-style cannabis coffeeshops, sparked a debate that continues to today. It’s a well-liked matter not solely as a result of assist for legalization is 40 p.c in Berlin—greater than in another German state—but additionally due to a controversial, zero-tolerance coverage within the well-liked Görlitzer Park, a brand new enforcement effort that has introduced the difficulty to the middle of public consideration.

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