Germany finally opened its first marijuana social club on Monday Lower Saxony Minister of Agriculture Miriam Staudte announced that the permit was awarded by her office to Social Club Ganderkesee The news comes about a week after cannabis clubs became legal in Germany on July 1 The new law, which was partially enacted earlier this year, on April 1 made it legal for adults over 18 to possess up to 25 grams of dried cannabis and cultivate up to three marijuana plants at home It also allowed adults to join not-for-profit social clubs where they can buy up to 25 grams of cannabis, with a cap of 50 grams per month as of last week. That cap is 30 grams for members under 21 years old. Under the same law, each club can have up to 500 members who can grow, share and enjoy cannabis together. Marijuana Moment reported that Carmen Wegge a lawmaker with the Social Democratic Party (SPD) said the cannabis social clubs would help in the fight against the illicit market "Even if you don't have a particularly green thumb She called the issuance of the first permit a "historic step for consumer protection and controlled cannabis cultivation in Germany." Read Next: Cannabis Shops Could Launch This Year In Germany For ‘Scientific Purposes,’ Here’s Why UK’s Medical Marijuana Sales Are Soaring the German Police Union is worried that cannabis clubs will be misused "We fear that criminals from the organized crime sector will use the possibility of growing clubs to expand criminal structures," said Alexander Poitz Steffen Geyer, head of the German Cannabis Social Clubs' umbrella organization, said the country is unprepared for such regulatory change, as highlighted in a recent story by Benzinga’'s Rolando García Geyer said the bureaucratic process around the application for licenses is uncertain and undetermined "There will certainly be a mid-three-digit number of clubs applying for a license How long this will take and how many of them will be successful is still impossible to predict." other permits for social clubs where the cultivation of marijuana for its members is legal are expected to shortly follow suit Benzinga does not provide 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using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page What is special about this concept is that the companies get to keep the honey made by their own bee colony after it has been processed Customers select their own jars and Bee-Rent labels them with individual designs the aim is not to produce as much honey as possible the goal is to keep the bees in an environment appropriate to their species and to protect them from the Varroa mite a parasite that weakens the insects’ immune system And even if the mite cannot be completely eradicated expert beekeepers know at least several methods to control its spread Dieter Schimanski has been committed to protecting the honey bee since he was very young But only in July 2015 did he come up with the idea of making a business out of bee leasing: “There are lots of amateur beekeepers But only a small number of people have managed to turn bees into a livelihood if you want to support bees and beekeepers professionally then you have to rent out honey bees.” What began as a small project alongside his regular work showed its first successes after only a short time “At first I did this for fun and delivered beehives with my Audi coupé He is entirely in his element with his small business in Ganderkesee close to Bremen KfW Entrepreneurs’ Award (formerly the GründerChampions) selected the 16 state winners and one national winner for their business ideas in October 2019 He relied on professional planning right from the outset: “I wrote a business plan and drew up a financial plan to see whether the project would pay off financially,” explains the experienced entrepreneur Dieter Schimanski already took the plunge into self-employment in 2004 and formed a purchasing cooperative Bee rental was widely reported in the media in this first year A lot of companies contacted him with the desire to rent a bee box the business became an ever greater challenge – until the franchise concept was added in 2016 Beekeepers from all over Germany came forward and wanted to be part of Bee-Rent as distribution partners The company now has 25 franchise beekeepers throughout Germany To be able to concentrate fully on the booming bee business Schimanski sold his shares in his own marketing agency at the beginning of 2018 and since then has only been involved with Bee-Rent We have beekeepers who become part of Bee-Rent because they see a new opportunity in their profession And also for bees,” says Dieter Schimanski beekeepers earn 350 euros per year per bee colony through wholesalers At Bee-Rent they are responsible for looking after a colony of bees for three years and deliver whole combs to the company they receive an amount of almost 1,524 euros which is significantly more than what they would earn for the sale of the honey The beekeepers can count on this income as a stable basis This is why Dieter Schimanski believes that his start-up offers a sound economic basis that can easily persuade beekeepers to adopt the concept During the production of honey in what is known as the honey room The entire production is handled by two machines In order to acquire the production machines Schimanski had to work together with several manufacturers from different countries “We have been able to order many individual components over the Internet we bought the labelling machine from Italy and the machine for unscrewing lids from Denmark.” Schimanski remembers that what is automated today used to be a time-consuming manual process: “In the first few years I closed the lids of and labelled 7,000 glasses by hand with my wife DEG – Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH a subsidiary of KfW – also keeps bees from Bee-Rent They insect employees live on DEG’s rooftop Beekeeper Sebastian Klein regularly keeps an eye on things Schimanski has largely financed his start-up from his own resources He only took out a working capital loan to finance one of his machines The major milestones still lie ahead for Bee-Rent "We have our first distribution partner in Luxembourg and enquiries from France Defining this kind of conceptual strategy is very important for the future of a company We are still tinkering around with implementation,” says Dieter Schimanski We are also planning to offer insect hotels it is also important to protect other insects and offer them a habitat that has otherwise almost disappeared “I think that we are seeing a great shift in thinking in our society everyone has to find their own position when it comes to sustainability But with Bee-Rent we provide something absolutely unique.” The economic growth of the past decades has come at the expense of natural resources and the global climate and has long since reached ecological limits If all people were to be given access to the quality of life that people accept as a matter of course in Germany several planet Earths would be required to sustain it Sustainable economic development reconciles social All United Nations member states adopted the 2030 Agenda in 2015 At its heart is a list of 17 goals for sustainable development known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Our world should become a place where people are able to live in peace with each other in ways that are ecologically compatible by the following photographers/photo agencies are used: Das Energiegras habe ein tiefreichendes Wurzelsystem Die Pflanze stelle kaum Ansprüche an Boden und Niederschlag Prüft gemeinsam mit Landwirt Malte Kleyhauer das Energiegras: Hans-Gerd Behrens (rechts) von der Projektmanagement GmbH aus Ganderkesee „Ich bin eher zufällig auf die Pflanze gestoßen“ der seinen Hof in Tweelbäke (Gemeinde Hatten) in andere Hände gegeben hat der auch beratend im Bereich Schweineerzeugung und Leasing für Landwirte unterwegs ist hatte sich in Ungarn eine Pellets-Maschine angesehen dass die Pellets aus dem Energiegras hergestellt werden.“ Behrens sah sich die Pflanze namens „Szarvasi“ genauer an zumal die Ungarn für ihr Saatgut einen Vertriebspartner für Norddeutschland suchten der auf eine mehr als 40-jährige Erfahrung als Landwirt zurückblicken kann zeigte sich erstaunt: Die mehrjährige Pflanze ein ausdauerndes Horstgras mit Wuchshöhen bis zu 2,5 Metern stelle keine hohen Ansprüche an Boden und Niederschlagsmengen Während beim Mais oft Bodenerosion beobachtet werde habe das Energiegras ein tiefreichendes Wurzelsystem „Alle Nährstoffe werden gut ausgenutzt“ Das sei gerade vor dem Hintergrund der Diskussion um die Nitratbelastung des Grundwassers von Bedeutung Die ältesten Bestände in Ungarn seien bereits 18 Jahre alt Dabei habe sich die Pflanze als sehr frosthart erwiesen Herkömmliche Ernte- und Lagertechnik sei anwendbar Auch die jährlichen Kosten (inklusive Düngung und Pflanzenschutz) lägen mit 612 Euro pro Hektar deutlich unter den Kosten von Mais (1123 Euro/Hektar) Schließen Behrens, der einer von drei deutschen Vertriebspartnern von „Szarvasi 1“ ist, hat inzwischen Kunden in Kappeln an der Schlei und im Wangerland. „Das wächst dort wie irre“, sagt der 60-jährige Ganderkeseer unter Hinweis auf seine Gespräche mit Landwirt Malte Kleyhauer im Wangerland. Auch nach Tests im Bildungszentrum der Landwirtschaft in Triesdorf (Franken) seien die Bauern in Bayern von dem Energiegras mittlerweile angetan. Das 3N-Kompetenzzentrum Niedersachsen (Netzwerk Nachwachsende Rohstoffe) in Werlte (Emsland) wolle ebenfalls den Einsatz von Energiegras fachlich begleiten. Nach Erfolgen mit dem Einsatz vom Zuckerrüben in Biogasanlagen sei ein Projekt mit dem Energiegras allemal für die Landwirte in der Region interessant. To learn more, check out our transcription guide or visit our transcribers forum “Heart in Danger” was officially remastered and released on Bandcamp and vinyl as the B-side to Subways of Your Mind (Like the Wind) “Heart in Danger” was released to all major streaming platforms ShareQ&AFind answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning