You can check where you are allowed to consume in public on this website (click the button saying “Verstanden, zeig mir die Karte!”, you are agreeing to a no warranty disclaimer): https://bubatzkarte.de
The regulations don’t apply to private spaces and only when in sight of the protected locality in the centre of the red circles.
And there are other regulations, so many other regulations…
But hey, I can at least legally consume in the privacy of my own home now, so I got that going for me, which is nice.
The outdoors ban only applies “within sight of or less than 100m away from” places where children might gather, like schools, playgrounds, and so forth, with the idea being preventing them from suffering passive consumption. Which I wouldn’t have any problem with if it were applied equally to tobacco and other inhalants as well by the way, but it isn’t. Plus as you might see on the image (if I didn’t fuck up my resolution too bad) this means that virtually more than half of down-town Berlin is off limits if you want to be on the safe side.
The law says “consumption of cannabis” by the way, so yeah, technically edibles are out too…
Isn’t it “within sight of and less then 100m”? Which makes bubatzkarte more of a worst case scenario
Yeah I worded that badly. It’s allowed if you are in the line of sight of a protected locality but more than 100m away. The law specifically states line of sight means less than 100m.
That’s pretty crappy then. It doesn’t benefit anyone, and imposes pointless restrictions on people just enjoying life.
If they’re not covering everything inhaled like that, it’s a dumb ban. Very dumb.
No one is gonna catch you if you eat some cake in public. So while it technically applies to edibles too, in practice it doesn’t.
And yeah, cities have a lot of people and a lot of children, no shit.
Drop that cake and nobody needs to get hurt, perp!
Well it does, if you are stupid enough to be open about it towards a cop. So good to know anyway.
And like I said, I’d even be fine with that if it was equally applied to anything you smoke. But the ban doesn’t include tobacco, doesn’t even refer to smoking at all in fact, and in its current form essentially bans public consumption for entire neighbourhoods. So I would posit there is some room for improvement.