Hanfparade
National and international musicians entertain the visitors, which often includes high-ranking personalities from politics, culture, medicine and the legalization movement.
The demonstrations so far have always been peaceful, which may be because the police rarely pursue offenses against cannabis possession laws.
As a result of the Corona pandemic the Hanfparade took place only in the virtual space with a live video stream.
It started at 1:00 p.m. with a speech between TV tower and railway station Alexanderplatz in Berlin under the slogan "Cannabis is (World) Culture".
The Hanfparade requests that the entire hemp culture, both the art of using hemp as raw material, as food, as stimulant and as medicine, is allocated to the intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO and removed from the present authorities, which are focused solely on criminal prosecution.
and led a march down Unter den Linden to the Brandenburger Tor from the Alexanderplatz across the Oranienburger.
Intermediate demonstrations took place in front of Kunsthaus Tacheles and the British embassy.
The police managed to cut several thousand hemp plants down at the Brandenburger Gate, although the organizers had permission for it.
At the conclusion of the demonstration there was a six-hour closing speech at the Platz des 18.
This was because (among other things) the closing speech was forbidden at short notice by the office responsible for green area.
The police enacted substantial controls and wrote 24 announcements because of offenses against the BtMG (German narcotic law).
The Hanfparade began at 12:00 on 23 August 2003 with a 60-minute demonstration before the Federal Ministry of Finance at the William route (between Leipziger road and Niederkirchnerstrasse) in Berlin.
The 2002 Hanfparade included a march to the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church with about 10,000 people.
An excerpt from a speech of Hans Christian Ströbele was used in the song Gebt das Hanf frei!
Hopes of a new and better millennium drove several tens of thousands of people to the hemp parade.
In the election year, nearly 50,000 people flew into Berlin under the slogan, "The fight continues," they demanded the legalization of hemp from the new Federal Government.
Ten thousand followed the call "of the Herumschweifenden Haschrebellen" and H.A.N.F., a registered association for the first country wide demonstration for hemp.
