If you do not want to read about junkies but are fond of potatoes, we won't make it difficult, just scroll down to the end of the post for the potato episode.
Munich, Germany, is on track to set an awful record of fatal drug overdoses.
Other big German cities have seen the number of fatalities fall in the past decade, but the Bavarian government of crackdown heads goes for repression.
While harm reduction programs, including places where intravenous drug users can shoot up, needle exchanges, social workers, have spread through the other states, Bavaria won't adopt such measured steps. In Munich, the number has doubled, and utter filth, such as discarded and then boiled Fentanyl patches, is used by addicts who can not afford the "arrest risk premium" dealers in Bavaria charge.
So, what does the crackdown on junkies by the authorities in Munich, Germany, in 2015 have to do with potatoes in Berlin, Germany, at the other end of the country and in the year 1740?
Frederick II (Frederick the Great) wanted to popularize potatoes, a then promising new food from the Americas but people did not take to it. So, in 1740, he had potato fields planted in
Berlin and made sure the word about the king planting fancy tubers spread. Then he had soldiers guard the field but ordered them to not catch thieves.
Farmers sneaked in, got some tubers and spread the joy.
The rest is history.
Oh, wait, today they call it nudging.
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