Participate – Get active

There is a lot to do, so even you can help to make the Hanfarade into an awesome demo. Do you want Paul McCartney to play and speak at the Hanfparade? Then organise a bus with his fans to drive in front of his house door and bring him directly to the stage at the Hanfparade. Do you have free time to get active? Distribute posters and flyers or help us directly by joining our team. Perhaps you could even participate with your own parade truck ..?

Participate with your own parade truck

You want to create your own parade truck? We have compiled information about how much money you have to plan for and what needs should be considered for the construction. Also, which security and safety rules must be observed and where you can find the best deals for hiring the vehicle.

Distribute posters and flyers

Even in Berlin, amongst other locations, the Hanfparade needs advertising! In order to let as many people as possible know when and where the Hanfparade is taking place, flyers need to be distributed and posters posted. Advertise for the Hanfparade in your area, inform yourself under “Distribute Posters and flyers”! Even if the Hanfparade is far away – Berlin is always worth the trip!

Print posters and flyers

You have the ability to print or copy? Make yourself a stack of flyers and posters then distribute them in the streets and to your friends! All such actions will get the Hanfparade more publicity. Even if you live far away – Berlin is always worth the trip! 🙂

Be a sponsor

You do not have that much time, but instead some excess money waiting to be spend for a good cause? So, you want to support the activities around the Hanfparade – is it possible? Yes it is, you can also donate money, this is extremely important!

Link the Hanfparade

You have a website, are running a blog or forum? The Internet helps us to express our opinion and to disseminate it. Help make the Hanfparade be a recognised event by using your website, place a link on your site. Here you can find banners in many sizes.

Action Centre

You have interests in political and hemp related activities and action? Then we will warmly receive your contact – here’s the info page to do so.

Organisation Help

The work of the organisation team begins long before the first demo visitors arrive at the starting point. Help us forge and organise the plans for the Hanfparade. Join the organisation team!

Accommodation during Hanfparade

Over night stays during the Hanfparade

A good nights sleep is necessary before the Hanfparade to be as fresh as possible for the next day and express your opinion!

If any requests or offers for private sleeping arrangements are passed on to us then here is where we will publish them. Furthermore, Berlin has countless good backpacker hostels with rates below 20 €, just search on the net. You can also find private accommodation on the following sites: CouchSurfingBewelcome and Hospitality Club as well as Dachgeber which is one of the the cycle club sites.

Special Offers in Hostels/Hotels

We try to negotiate some great deals for our participants at the hostels and hostels in the vincinity of the demo – stay tuned!

If you would like to offer a sofa, bed or accommodation, please feel free to let us know via the contact page.

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Sleep in Hotel

Maybe you can find something to stay here, they have Hotels and Hostels as well. Every Eurocent we get through this partner program will go into the organisation of the next Hanfparade. Your stay in Berlin will help us!

Travel arrangements

someone to the Hanfparade or even organise car sharing? Cars, minibus, group ticket – no matter what, we have created this page for this reason. If you want to offer or to request in public, get in touch with us and we will publish it right here.

This year we meet at Spandauer Straße, next to Alexanderplatz Station or Hackescher Markt Station. Most trains stop at Alexanderplatz. Also there are many parking places at the sides of Alexanderplatz.

Rail Travel

General ….

The weekend ticket “Schönes-Wochenende-Ticket” is still one of the cheapest tickets available: 5 people, 1 day, 37 €. With this ticket you can travel across Germany but you can only take the slower regional trains. Those of you taking the journey from not too far away and travelling in a group can very efficiently combine it with a regional ticket “Länder-Tickets”. These can also be used to travel on a week day and cost e.g. in Brandenburg for 5 people only 27 €. Fast long distance travel in ICE and IC/EC can provide a savings rate “Sparpreis”. Especially in combination with a passenger price reduction on a “BahnCard 25”. These tickets must be booked as early as possible (at least 3 months) before the date of travel! Keep your eyes open for special offers, e.g. as was sometimes the case in some food discount stores and of course directly from the German train company (Deutsche Bahn)!

Group rail travel arrangements can of course be sought and offered through our site. However, it is also possible to search through these travel portals:

Hanfparade connecting europe

Its nice to have an english meeting point at the Hanfparade, but how to get there? We have partnered with Raileurope to give you an good ride:

Hitchhike

One of the most ecological way of travelling is the art of thumbing a lift. You do not have any experience with hitchhiking? This site link is a Hitchhikers guide for beginners with a good overview of what is important and where there are good opportunities for getting a lift.

More hitchhiker and car sharing links

If you schedule a little more time it is also a good idea to look at the stations for groups who have some spare places with their tickets.

Die Route der Hanfparade

Schedule & Route

The Hanfparade wants to be a place for everyone, in every age! Thus the Hanfparade is not only a march through the city but also an central meeting and information point about Hemp. The start point and final rally place, the Spandauer Str./Alexanderplatz offers information booths and encourages to participate.

Hanfparade starts at 12 o’clock, with a start up stage programme till 3pm. Start of the march is: 3pm. The final part of the rally with speakers, bands on the stage and trucks happens from around 6pm till 10pm.

Hanfparade in Berlin – English Main Page

The most important dates for Hanfparade 2024:

The next Hanfparade will take place on Saturday, August 10, 2024.

Hanfparade (“Hemp parade”) is the largest and most traditional march for Cannabis as medicine, natural resource and recreational drug in Germany. It has been held annually in Berlin since 1997. More than 8000 people participated in the last Hanfparade!

Both for cannabis as a raw material, cannabis as recreational drug, as well as cannabis as medicine, there is a clear deficit of information in the population. We want to effectively counteract this by focusing on education in various areas this year.

Education instead of prohibition! Legalization now!

News from Hanfparade

Poster der Hanfparade 2011

Press Release JaKiS e.V. 10th August 2011

Hanfparade organisers see themselves and the freedom of assembly massively curtailed by police. Legal action against the authorities decided.

Following the Hanfparade 2011 in Berlin last Saturday, when about 2,700 people demanded the “legalisation of Cannabis as a raw material, medicine and natural stimulant,” the organising association JaKiS e.V. has raised serious allegations against the Berlin police. JaKiS e.V. refuses to accept the accusations from the administrative authority for assemblies (Versammlungsbehörde) that extensive parts of the Hanfparade were “not focused on collective manifestation of opinion” and therefore the overall event is not a gathering in terms of the basic law.

“The truth is that the Forum for Hemp Medicine, Hemp Crop Show, Kinderland and Market of Opportunities which were prohibited by the authorities have immense political importance. They are part of an intensive engagement for the participants and visitors showing the variety of Hemp applications,” said Martin Steldinger, one of the board members of the association.

The organisers of the Hanfparade were shocked at the lack of willingness from the Berlin police to communicate. They point out that their extensive objections were ignored by the assembly authorities and offers of talks, even if they emanated from the solicitor of the association, ran into a void. The JaKiS e.V. explains this by saying the Hanfparade, as in the past 14 years, should have been fully recognised as a demonstration. The head of the Berlin assembly authority Mr Haß included in his negative verdict, quotes from rulings by the Federal Administrative Court which had thereafter been rescinded in 2007.

“We cannot accept the apparent arbitrariness with which the rights to demonstrate in terms of Hanfarade 2011 were broken and bent,” said Martin Steldinger. “The assembly authorities hostile decision, refusal to communicate and attitude of the officials force us to go the legal way and to challenge the assembly authorities decision.” The Hanfparade 2011 represent here on behalf of many demonstrations, their constitutionally protected right to participate in political discourse which is increasingly being eroded.