By Anna-Lena Roth
The university town of Göttingen is getting greener and greener. But not everyone is pleased: The new plants sprouting up in parks, planter boxes and gardens across the city aren’t part of an official city-beautification project. They’re part of a pro-marijuana protest.
In early June, a group calling itself “A Few Autonomous Flower Children” spread several kilograms of marijuana seeds throughout the city. Only now are the fruits of their labor beginning to emerge from the soil. “We can’t set eyes on this useful and beautiful plant because it’s absolutely forbidden in Germany to grow it,” the group wrote in a letter claiming responsibility for the action. And they say that’s not right.
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