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Germany: Görlitzer Park connects marijuana buyers and sellers

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 08/19/2015 - 08:45

Clusters of men - most of them migrants from western and northern Africa, many of them in Germany illegally - congregate in small groups around many of the benches in Berlin's Görlitzer Park, and the meaningful glances they exchange with passing locals or in-the-know tourists all say the same thing: Want some pot? Come talk to me.

The park, known as "Görli" to locals, is a 14-hectare (35-acre) green rectangle in Berlin's Kreuzberg district on the site of a former railyard and coal depot. It was transformed into an urban oasis in the early 1990s. Gaggles of picnicking locals crowd its lawns on sunny days. There's a cafe in a converted railway outbuilding, sports enclosures and even a petting zoo for kids.

The park's designers didn't expect its benches to become shops for illegal drugs, but that's what has happened. Remarkably, locals seem mostly unbothered by the phenomenon - an...

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