Maybe the Only Way I'd Sit Through an Opera

A Berlin opera house is encouraging audience members to smoke cannabis joints during its latest production.

The Neuköllner Opera House says it wants to enhance the psychedelic experience of Camille Saint-Saens' drug opera The Oriental Princess.

The actors themselves will also smoke pot onstage while the audience mellow out in the stalls, reports DW-Worldl.

Artistic director Bernhard Glocksin maintains that the opera experience will be "improved with a few joints" while the opera house asserts that artistic license will protect it from drug laws.