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If no one else is advertising the Europa Ball, then I'll just do it myself. For weeks I have been asking our press and media representatives as well as those responsible for celebrations and festivals in the city to also do some advertising for the event Europe ball close. It's not about me, it's just about reactivating an old Heilbronn event highlight, for the benefit of the city and us citizens.

The statements that I would not receive any advertising for the Europa Ball because I would allow myself to openly criticize things and people in Heilbronn are very revealing. Anyone who actually thinks that way isn't even one a poor shopkeeper soul, but just a very poor person!

That's why I'm all the more pleased that the Europa Ball in Harmonie is not only sold out, but that many responsible citizens are taking the opportunity to help ensure that Heilbronn has a dance ball again by taking part. Overall, this is good for our city and, if things go as planned, will help bring our urban society a little closer together again in the future.

In my opinion, this doesn't harm anyone and is therefore definitely worthy of an application. The press could also report on it afterwards, if you still find time for it with all the reports about barber shops, kebab shops and trash TV.

What I don't really understand is how, as the editor of a newspaper, you can come up with the idea that your subscribers would rather read about kebab stalls than about dance balls. Since an editor certainly knows his own clientele better than I do, this will certainly be correct! But also be able to explain why some people no longer subscribe to newspapers.

Twelve

Yesterday's number! Never since the end of the Second World War have there been twelve lists in Heilbronn for the local council election. Herbert Burkhardt, who had been there several times, had predicted it in advance. Purely due to procedural law, the mayor will read the entire meeting from the sheet and - as always - all the suggestions will be approved. And that's exactly how it happened. The advantage of this was that the meeting was over after just under forty minutes.

There were still two questions. And the only really stupid question came from the AfD representative - you could have guessed that. Which reminds me again that the statement “you can’t ask stupid questions” is wrong. Because this would assume that even stupid people suddenly become smart as soon as they ask a question. But the really good thing about it is that even very smart people can ask really stupid questions!

It becomes embarrassing when you give stupid answers to clever questions. Clever answers to stupid questions are probably one of the greatest moments of human communication; which shouldn't matter to the person asking the question.

Now back to the twelve lists. These offer a total of 475 candidates. 297 men (63 percent) and 178 women (37 percent). In addition, eight people from Heilbronn are competing who are younger than 18 but at least 16 years old. I am particularly pleased that 16 Union citizens who are not German citizens have thrown their hat into the ring.

Of the 475 candidates, only 40 can become local councilors. 435 candidates will be left behind on June 9, 2024. I think it's good and right that there are still so many candidates who apply for this volunteer position. Even though the chance of actually being elected is very limited for all newcomers, overall it offers voters a good choice and indeed the opportunity to bring about change in the city.

Anyone who would like to see a change in our city and then vote for the same candidates again should at least ask themselves a smart question.

Tetrahydrocannabinol

It has been the “essential” issue in our country for a few months now; some are celebrating the fact that cannabis legalization has at least been halfway achieved and others are celebrating the fact that they are actually against it.

There has been a cannabis vending machine around the corner from me for a long time, long before April 1, 2024. This seems to be THC-free and so its actual meaning eludes me; Nevertheless, a few Smurfs always stand in front of it and marvel. In the meantime, I am amazed at our politics, which gets caught up in such things and works through them, even though there are actually challenges that responsible parliamentarians should and could regulate more urgently.

Anyone who isn't entirely on the potato soup - and I would also be happy on the sausage soup - should know that cannabis has been one of the most frequently consumed psychoactive substances in Germany since the 1970s. And this with or without legislators.

As early as the 1970s, you could get hashish on every corner in Heilbronn, including at my school. And back then, when you got into a car, you had to make sure that you still had all your senses together at the end of the journey, even if you were a non-smoker.

My two cousins ​​in the US, along with their friends, tended to prefer marijuana, and I have fond memories of car rides with everyone holding a can of beer and rolling the joint, passing the last stub with appropriate tongs that were kept under when not in use dangling from the rearview mirror. I regularly felt sick after such trips, which meant that I never became a smoker, even at times when everyone around me smoked.

It's astonishing that in this decade young people could and were allowed to travel independently, and most of them - apart from the Smurfs - became quite decent citizens.

Today, for reasons I don't understand, cannabidiol - the globule among psychoactive substances - is being made into the new hype, which could explain the CBD machine in my neighborhood, and anyone who wants it can still get their joint - this time only with a very large one bureaucratic effort.

As has been written many times, our legislators only concern themselves with those things that they can reasonably understand themselves, and so the coming debates will probably be heated about whether we can drive 30, 35 or even 40 kilometers per hour in our cities allowed to drive.

So we should all be really happy that our “decision-makers” haven’t yet addressed the question of whether and how often you have to change your underwear. And therefore perhaps even happy that the Chancellor and our Prime Ministers continue to be very concerned about the gender asterisk.

But you could also ask yourself what kind of substance is actually smoked in our parliaments and ministries?

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