Opera House In Berlin Encourages Audience To Smoke Pot

Opera House In Berlin Encourages Audience To Smoke Pot

July 31, 2006 7:57 a.m. EST

Komfie Manalo - All Headline News Foreign Correspondent

Berlin, Germany (AHN) - The Neukцllner Opera House in Berlin, Germany is encouraging its audience to smoke cannabis while watching a play about drugs.

According to reports the opera house wants the public to "enhance the psychedelic experience of Camille Saint-Saens' drug opera, "The Oriental Princess."

Performers of the play will also smoke pot onstage while the audience smokes their own brand of herbs.

Artistic director Bernhard Glocksin argues the audience will have a different experience smoking pot while watching the play and that the opera experience will be "improved with a few joints."

He said the opera house asserts artistic license will be protected from drug laws.

He said, "It's a test to see just what we can get away with."

Possession of up to 10 grams of cannabis in Berlin is considered "for personal use," and authorities usually don't make arrests if someone is caught with such a small amount of pot.

However, smoking pot in public places is illegal.

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