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Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam

Mónica Boixeda Amsterdammer, Only-Be

Sadly it says a lot about our time and civilization that the only drugs that are legal are those that cloud the mind and intelligence. Under absurd and hypocritical mottos (can we not label as drugs – and many of them strong ones, if there was any sense from the slightest intellectual strictness to make the famous and biased distinction between hard and soft drugs – tobacco, alcohol, coffee, tea, medicines…?) such as zero tolerance to all types of drugs, not only do we condemn an unfair and unnecessary social stigma to a large part of the world population, also insulting history and human intelligence, but we also stop people who out of free will decide to consume illegal substances from accessing a minimum quality control, which causes many thousands of tragic accidents every day which are perfectly avoidable. And if all of this nonsense wasn´t enough, the fact is still that political prohibitions, an attempt to attack the individual right of deciding freely regarding what only concerns one self and distance ourselves from the possibility of building and accessing a necessary culture to do with the ways in which our body reacts to certain existent substances, have not only solved the so called ´drug problem´ (drugs are still consumed massively all over the world) but we can also state that they´re the ones responsible for creating them. You could argue that it´s precisely since the existence of prohibition that there´s a social problem with drugs, and not the other way around. But, of course, prohibition allows the financing of armies, psychologists and entire police forces and civil servants... read more

Hammam of the Great Mosque Paris

Mónica Boixeda Only-Be, Parisian

The hammam of the Great Mosque is a place to relax and and travel to the Middle East in only a few seconds. It´s located close to the Jardin des Plantes.