Three decades of commitment to cannabis as a raw material, medicine, and recreational drug would be reason enough to celebrate. But 2024 offers the Hemp Museum even more reasons for a proper party. It will take place next Friday (December 6th).

The year 2024 will go down as a special one in the history of the German legalization movement. Disputes over final amendments to the emerging cannabis law in the Bundestag, the intense fight against the Bundesrat’s referral to the Mediation Committee, the euphoria of the new realities in April, sobering decisions by the Federal Court of Justice, legally blooming hemp plants on many balconies, the continuation of discriminatory low THC limits in road traffic, the first permits for cannabis clubs, the CDU/CSU’s announcement to reverse everything next year…

“Emotional rollercoaster” is a very cautious description of the past hemp year. And it’s not over yet.

Hemp enthusiasts are eagerly awaiting one last highlight of the year – the 30th anniversary of the Hemp Museum on Friday, December 6th. The museum spaces in Berlin’s Nikolaiviertel are not only the scene’s oldest infrastructure, they are the secret heart of the legalization movement. Nowhere else in Germany are the pulse and sentiment surrounding cannabis so immediately palpable. Nowhere else have the possibilities of legal cannabis been and are dreaming so intensely.
The Hemp Museum is a meeting place for activists and those hungry for information, the birthplace of countless campaigns and initiatives. Cannabis culture has been lived here for three decades. And “incidentally,” the country has been transformed.
Museums have rarely been so colorful.

The 30th anniversary of the Hemp Museum is therefore not just the museum’s anniversary, but a celebration of the entire legalization scene. For the unofficial conclusion of the 2024 hemp year, the museum team has planned a colorful potpourri of information, politics, and culture.

12 p.m. Press tour and hemp brunch
2 p.m. Birthday cake
4 p.m. Discussion: No fight, no hemp
6 p.m. Discussion: Quo vadis cannabis?
8 p.m. Live music: Groß & Artig
10 p.m. Live music: Götz Widmann

In addition to the special events, the Hemp Museum offers a number of special activities for birthday guests. There will be three “special exhibitions for one day”:

The Berlin-based industrial hemp processor “Hanfwerk” will cater to the guests’ culinary needs with its hemp seed spreads and pestos, soy-free Hanfu (hemp tofu), and regionally produced cannabis-infused beverages.

The Industrial Hemp Network e.V. will offer workshops on “Building with Hemp” throughout the day. Dr. Norbert Höpfer, an expert in hemp lime and hemp construction, will literally demonstrate how hemp-clay bricks are made. The mineralogist, renovation consultant, and restorer will also be available to answer visitors’ questions about hemp building materials.

The recreational hemp community will also get their money’s worth at the Hemp Museum’s birthday celebrations. Thanks to a collaboration between the Berlin specialty store Verdamftnochmal and the CSC HighGround Berlin e.V., visitors to the museum’s anniversary celebration have the chance to experience the lowest-risk way to enjoy intoxicating cannabis. Various vaporizers will be presented, and the advantages and disadvantages of each device will be explained. Cannabis enthusiasts are invited to immerse themselves in the exciting world of terpenes.

Rockmanna for body and mind

Once all guests have a hemp-infused slice of birthday cake in their stomachs, the museum feeds their minds. It also hosts two afternoon expert discussions in which activists will review 30 years of legalization and anticipate developments in the coming decades.

The evening program will then focus on hemp culture, or more specifically, cannabis-inspired music.

First, at 8 p.m., Groß&Artig will take to the museum’s birthday stage. The Braunschweig punk-rock quartet tells the story of what makes up the everyday lives of many cannabis enthusiasts… without falling into stoner clichés.

Of course, Happy, Lasse, Rico, and Peter dream of one day being “King of the Weeds,” with fields stretching to the horizon. But Groß&Artig are aware of the dangers of the green magic from the “Little Box.”

With the express approval of the Office for Resistance, Groß&Artig remain true to their punk roots and, despite their love of social excess, remain political. They dream of the blessings of unemployment and, together with their audience, cheer the answer to the question “What does a man do with his axe?”
Smoking hashish makes you harmless
Götz Widmann

A punk rocker at heart and a singer-songwriter by nature, the artist who wants to end the museum’s anniversary from 10 p.m. onwards as eventful and emotionally charged as the year 2024 was.

With Götz Widmann, the “Godfather of Drug-Political Songwriting” honors the Hemp Museum. He is thus fulfilling a long-held dream for himself and his visitors, having already promised at a 1998 performance at the museum that he would return once his democracy-glorifying songs had fulfilled their purpose. No one could have guessed how long that would take.

For three decades, the Bonn native has been tirelessly promoting legal cannabis in public. No scene event or legalization demonstration goes by without a stoner anthem from his pen. Götz has played in coffee shops, at the Green Party conference, in front of the Federal Ministry of Finance, and is a regular guest at the Hemp Parade.

At the museum’s anniversary celebration, Götz Widmann will present parts of his new program “Blütenduft” (Flower Scent). Naturally, this will include classics from “Hank Starred on an Overdose of Hash” to “Magic Tax.”
Götz has also promised to fulfill spontaneous song requests, at least during the encores.

We look forward to seeing you and the 30th anniversary of the Hemp Museum Berlin – Friday, December 6, 2024, 10 a.m.–midnight.

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