“Smoking weed” at the Brandenburg Gate – joints in front of the CSU headquarters: This is how the first day of cannabis legalization went. Possession, cultivation and consumption are legal for adults with some requirements.
The new freedoms were celebrated in Berlin: around 1,500 people gathered to “smoke weed’ and light up joints. Overall, things remained very quiet in the Federal Republic. Some police departments reported driving under the influence of drugs. In Offenburg, Gotha and Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, adults under the Influence of cannabis got behind the wheel.