BERLIN (AP) — You can get drunk at Bavaria’s world-famous Oktoberfest, but don’t get high. The southern German state will ban smoking cannabis at public festivals, inside beer gardens, and even at the Oktoberfest, the world’s most popular beer festival, the state’s government announced Tuesday. Local authorities in Bavaria will also be allowed to prohibit […]
The southern German state of Bavaria has said it will ban the smoking of cannabis at public festivals, inside beer gardens and even at the world’s most popular beer festival, Oktoberfest. Local authorities in Bavaria will also be allowed to prohibit cannabis consumption in public areas such as outdoor swimming pools and leisure parks such […]
Munich’s beer-soaked Oktoberfest may be declared a “cannabis-free” zone, even though the drug was just legalised. Marijuana was part-decriminalised across Germany on 1 April – but the rules have met resistance, especially among conservatives. Bavaria’s leader says his state won’t become a “stoner’s paradise”. Millions of litres are consumed by millions of people at Oktoberfest’s […]
Hats off to Brendon Cull, the new president of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber of Commerce, for wasting no time in changing the practice of holding Oktoberfest on a dirty, urban, city street or, worse yet, an interstate exit ramp above the noise and air pollution from the traffic below on Fort Washington Way. Mr. Cull is […]