A free, self-guided GPS audio walk through the side of Czech legalization that never made the postcards. While the marches filled the squares, the actual machinery — a research institute in Josefov, a hemp pharmacy in a Wenceslas Square arcade, Žižkov's growshops and publishers, a hemp association and a state agency — did the paperwork. 6 stops beyond the tourist core, narrated by Marta. Companion walk to Prague Walk: How Cannabis Became Legal. Walk it on location with GPS, or follow along from anywhere.
6.15 km · about 2.1 hours total (walking + narration)
An institute that oversold itself with one hand and did serious science with the other.
He had spent twelve years being careful with a real plant, and the square's business went to shops being careless with a fake one.
The state says 2000, the sign says 2001, and the shop itself, nine years ago, in print, said 1998.
Not an ancient reunion — two cousins, one of whom spent five hundred years doing the job while the other waited to be asked.
The oldest cannabis organization in the country is run from behind a mailbox by a bagpipe-playing museum ethnologist.
The plant didn't win despite ending up in a filing cabinet. It won by becoming one.
Start the walk · How it works · Read the story: A Mailbox, a Growshop, and a Government Office: Prague's Invisible Cannabis City