Justice
Berlin's Increasingly Unhappy Relationship With Marijuana
The discovery of 700 marijuana plants is just the latest in an ongoing saga in and around Kreuzberg’s Görlitzer Park.
There’s something special about the illegal Berlin cannabis plantation uncovered Monday. The 700 plants the city’s police just discovered were not hidden away in some attic, but growing outside at one of the busiest intersections in all of Berlin.
Police discovered the young plants—already reaching up to 15 inches high—on a green patch at Kottbusser Tor in the Kreuzberg neighborhood. Hiding in plain sight (though apparently not that well), they were growing next to a packed subway station, apparently overlooked by both a daily market and an ever-present crowd of street drinkers.