Cultivation associations can currently meet only 0.1% of demand. When you consider how many of these associations are rejected based on completely absurd pretexts, this is hardly surprising. Cultivation associations have become a target of authorities in Germany. Several associations nationwide have already been forced to surrender due to harassment. Now there’s a new case from Hamburg that sounds almost like satire. The association Cannahaus Hamburg e. V. was rejected because its proposed location was too clean.
📑 Inhaltsverzeichnis
No Approval from Building Authority
Cultivation associations must meet high legal standards: associations must be at least 200 meters away from playgrounds and cannot disturb neighbors with odor. Cannahaus Hamburg e. V. wanted to do everything correctly and chose a location to unquestionably meet these requirements. An industrial zone was selected as the site. Two storage rooms and a container facility were planned for cannabis cultivation there. In an industrial zone, an additional production facility shouldn’t bother anyone—or so one might think.
However, the responsible building inspection office in Hamburg-Mitte saw it differently: the application was rejected on the grounds that a cultivation association wouldn’t fit in an industrial zone. The zoning plan is reserved for companies that cannot be built elsewhere due to their disruptive potential—such as odor. From the building authority’s perspective, this point did not apply to the cultivation association. The association was too „clean“ for an industrial zone.
Another argument for rejection was the lack of proximity to the harbor. However, several businesses in the immediate vicinity of the proposed facilities also have no relevance to harbor connections. A spokeswoman for the responsible office stated there was no flexibility whatsoever and the application was rejected.
Sören Moje of Cannahaus Hamburg e. V. spoke of arbitrary decision-making and emphasized that everything was done to develop a fully sealed and completely odor-free cultivation container. They made every effort to avoid the problems that had already caused other associations to fail. While cultivation associations in other areas are rejected because they are disruptive, approval in an industrial zone apparently isn’t possible either because they aren’t disruptive enough.
Financial Damage from High Investments
The club had already made substantial investments to implement the project. Several tens of thousands of euros were necessary to develop a professional facility with appropriate emissions control.
„Without approval, the project is dead,“ said spokesman Sören Moje. The current case is another example of obstructionist policy. They don’t want this law to work so they have grounds to repeal it.
To the petition: openpetition.de/petition/online/hamburg
Petition Launched
Cannahaus Hamburg e. V. has since launched a petition to prevent such sabotage in the future. Several other associations in Hamburg have also been rejected with incomprehensible justifications. The petition is directed at Senator Karen Pein for Urban Development and Housing. The demand is clear: law-abiding associations must not be prevented through arbitrary harassment while the black market continues uncontrolled.
Sollten Anbauvereine in Industriegebieten zugelassen werden?
Branchen-Update
News, Analysen und Reportagen — mehrmals im Monat direkt in dein Postfach.
Folge uns
