Bremen:
Some 300 participants despite the bad weather and the short notice (this was the last but one event added in Germany). The major local newspaper ignored the event but other local media (Radio Bremen 4 and others) gave coverage.

Flensburg:
Only 50-100 participants but coverning the entire political spectrum (PDS / Democratic Socialists to JU / Christian Democratic Youth).

Pictures: http://kiffer.net/cannabis-legalisierung_events.html

Koeln / Cologne:
The information booth by grow! with support from JES, akzept and VfD drew a lot of interest, mostly from people who support legalis ation. Many signatures were gathered for the set of minimum demands of the CannabisKampagne (CannabisCampaign: decrim up to 30g, medical use, personal cultivation, no driving license penalties) and for the "Zeig Dich!" ("Show yourself") coming-out campaign. Several hundred leaflets and flyers were handed out as well as a few dozend copies of the VfD-cannabis reform booklet.
Pictures:
http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/diecannabiskampagne/

Duesseldorf:
"Some 100 participants, good atmosphere, nice music"

Marburg:
Grüne Hilfe Hessen (Green Aid) contributed with a hemp event at "Cafe am Grün" cafe. Some 70 guests attended. The world
music-jazz-session-fusion group "Hooshiar & friends" provided a musical background. After an introduction by Oliver Kalusok (Grüne Hilfe Hessen/Green Aid), speakers Jo Biermanski (GH-Netzwerk e.V./Green Aid Network Association), Stefan Heim (PDS students group Marburg) und Max Plenert (Grüne Jugend/Green Party Youth) addressed the current criminal law and administrative law (driving license) situation of cannabis prohibition.

Jo Biermanski drew attention to prisoners and invited people to contact Grüne Hilfe for "adopting" prisoners. Stefan Heim, spokesman for the students group of the PDS (Party of Democratic Socialism) mainly addressed the issue of medical use.

Max Plenert (Grüne Jugend/Green Party Youth), who stood in for the Green Party federal candidate Anna Lührmann who was attending the pre-election Party Conference, reported that support for cannabis legalisation had been adopted for the Green Part election manifesto.

Leipzig:
The demonstration started off with some 1000-1500 participants and 10 loudspeaker trucks, following the route of the famous 1989 demonstrations that brought down the wall.

Around the main train station, the crowd reached about 2000 people. Heavy rain set in and lasted through the main event at the Clata-Zetkin-park.

Despite this the mood was very upbeat. There was strong police presence but - as in all other German events - there were no reports of any incidents with the police.

Joe Wein

http://www.cannabislegal.de

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Wolfenbüttel:

Hello Dana,

in Wolfenbüttel there was an information booth by ['solid]. We stood five
hours in the city and had many discussions. Most people support legalising.

['solid]-Wolfenbüttel