Hanfparade
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The Hanfparade (English: Hemp Parade) is the largest hemp legalization demonstration in Europe. It takes place since 1997 each year in August in Berlin.
The traditional course of the parade cars make a prelude through the German capital. In a various and mostly very multicolored demonstration, thousands give hemp and Cannabis their attention. At the end of the demonstration a large closing speech takes place.
The parade offers a variety of hemp-related entertainment. The main stage offers one mixes from speeches and live-music. National and international musicians maintain the visitors, which often includes high-ranking personalities from politics, culture, medicine and the legalization movement. In the Speakers Corner an open microphone waits for contributions.
The demonstrations ran so far are always peacefully, which was probably because of the fact that the police rarely pursue offences against the controlled substances laws (the Betäubungsmittelgesetz).
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[edit] 2006
The 10th Hanfparade took place on August 5 in Berlin. It stood under the slogan "Legalization now! Reorient your opinion instead of giving billions away!" and led a march down the Unter den Linden to the Brandenburg Gate from the Alexanderplatz across the Oranienburger. Intermediate demonstrations took place in front of Kunsthaus Tacheles and the British embassy. Approximately 1500 participants took part in the parade. At the Brandenburger Gate there was a hemp market with several hemp panels and hemp plants. The police accomplished to cut several thousand hemp plants off 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 März.
[edit] 2005
The 2005 Hanfparade took place on August 13 in Berlin. It stood under the slogan "We are the people hemp!" The demonstration started at 12:00 at Berlin City Hall accompanied with five parade cars and by the citizens of Berlin city center. The parade was again smaller than in the previous years with 1000 to 1200 participants. This was among other things because of the fact that the closing speech was forbidden at short notice by the office responsible for green area.
The police inacted substantial controls and wrote 24 announcements because of offences against the BtMG.
[edit] 2004
The 2004 Hanfparade took place on August 14 at the Alexanderplatz in Berlin at 12:00. About 3500 people attended the demonstration, and at the meeting area about 8000 were present.
[edit] 2003
The 2003 Hanfparade on August 23 began at 12:00 with a 60-minute demonstration before the Federal Ministry of Finance at the William route (between Leipziger road and Niederkirchnerstrasse) in Berlin. The parade with 13 cars ran peacefully. There were announcements however because of offences against the Betäubungsmittelgesetz.
About 5,000 demonstrators, including Hans-Christian Ströbele (a Green Party member of the German Bundestag), representatives of the Green Party Youths, the The Left Party and the Grey Panthers Party, participated in the demonstration.
[edit] 2002
The 2002 Hanfparade included a march on Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church with about 10,000 people. The participants slogan was "For hemp use! Against Hanfmi§§brauch! Education instead of prohibitions!"
An excerpt from a speech of Hans Christian Ströbele was used in the song "Gebt das Hanf frei!" from Stefan Raab.
[edit] 2001
"No war against plants" was the slogan of the 5th Hanfparade. The visitors celebrated with a party before marching on the Berlin City Hall. "I'm a stoner and it is also good to be like that!" people were saying.
[edit] 2000
For the millennium Hanfparade participants from all world demanded "Legalize it globally". Only a storm could impair the good tendency of 10,000 of the participants somewhat.
[edit] 1999
Hopes of a new and better millennium drove several ten thousand people to the hemp parade. They're slogan was "with hemp into the future“. For the first time, representatives of all parties speak (except the Christian Democratic Union).
[edit] 1998
In the election year, nearly 50,000 people flow into Berlin under the slogan "the fight continues" the demonstrated for the legalization of hemp by the new Federal Government.
[edit] 1997
Ten thousand followed the call "of the Herumschweifenden Haschrebellen" and the H.A.N.F. registered association for the first country wide demonstration for hemp. With their course to the Brandenburger Gate they demanded "Legalization now!"
