Cannabis and gender ban: Sorry, logic. We're in Bavaria!.
When Markus Söder imposes language bans and fights against grass, it has nothing to do with principles, but with identity politics for a fictitious Bavaria. In real life, more people smoke weed there than the national average. “Long-stoners is a cliché that has fallen out of date, and it was already in the case in the 1990s’s. It's an echo of the era in which Franz-Josef Strauss ruled Bavaria for what felt like decades as prime minister.