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Although medical marijuana is legal in Germany, German regulations on growing cannabis are extremely stringent. Christoph Rossner, the managing director of a cannabis growing and research operation called Bunker Pflanzenextrakte UG, found a high security facility for his operation that complied with German law and also matched his budget - a former NATO bunker designed to protect top military commanders in the event of a nuclear attack from the Soviet Union.
NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg urges the United States to stick with Europe as the military alliance turned 75 on Thursday under the shadow of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the spectre of Donald Trump's possible return to power in the US. "I don't believe in America alone, just as I don't believe in Europe alone. I believe in America and Europe together in NATO because we are stronger and safer together," Stoltenberg says at a ceremony at NATO headquarters in Brussels. SOUNDBITE
Polish minister of defence Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz and Parliament speaker Szymon Holownia attend a ceremony in Warsaw celebrating 25 years since Poland's accession to NATO. A day earlier, President Andrzej Duda urged NATO members to increase their defence spending to three percent of GDP in response to Russia's aggression against Ukraine. IMAGES
NATO's Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, announces that a nuclear war "will have severe consequences for Russia" during a press conference following Russian President, Vladimir Putin, signing an annexation accord with the Kremlin-installed leaders of four occupied Ukrainian regions. SOUNDBITE
Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General, and Ursula von der Leyen, President of European Commission, meet at the European Commmission against a background of war in Ukraine and tensions with Russia. IMAGES
It is "urgent" that the UN's atomic watchdog be allowed to inspect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine that is under Russian military control, according to NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg. SOUNDBITE