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The use of cannabis as a treatment of multiple diseases and illnesses has been documented over time in many cultures.

Many participants in Metzineres use this plant for different reasons. Some of us do so for pleasure, others to relief physical discomfort, to face different situations of vulnerability, stigma and violence that we survive from. We use cannabis to reduce pain, to modulate the effect of other psychoactive substances with more associated risks, in food disorders, to withstand the side effects of chemotherapy, in sleep disturbances, anxiety, distress, and in alleviating stress from fear and trauma, among others.

“Cannabis as a harm reduction tool” resource has been inspired by the experiences of Metzineres’ project participants and with the collaboration of other drugs and gender experts.

It is a tool based on harm reduction full spectrum philosophy, designed to be peer-to-peer shared and to push a debate in the community and in drug policy field about a reality not often discussed and researched.

This leaflet is available in Catalan, Spanish and English. We call on both individuals and organizations to download and share it through their networks.

Idea and texts: Metzineres
Financed by: Fundació Alchimia Solidaria
With the support of: RDRCannabis, ICEERS Foundation AND REMA
Illustrations: Maligneando

DOWNLOAD:

English: Cannabis as a harm reduction tool

Català: Cannabis com a eina de reducció de danys

Castellano: Cannabis como herramienta de reducción de daños

Weekly activities calendar for Metzineres participants. This month we have:

• Zine workshop
• Meetings of the XADUD (Xarxa de Dones que Use Drogues)
• Legal advice with IACTA
• Kosmetikín Natural: Natural cosmetics workshop
• Feminist self-defense workshop
• Monologueando: Monologues workshop, with Vidda Priego
• Assembly
• Prente’l Pel: Hairdressing with Soraya-Natalia
• DIRD Meetings (Women Promoters of Harm Reduction)
• Pa’Ella: Fridays Paella at the Ágora Juan Andrés Benítez
• MetziRadio: Radio Workshop
• Ketsungen
• ArtiSana: Art therapy workshop
• Makeup with Koral
• Crispelis: Movies and popcorn!

April special activities:

• Thursday 7: Calçotada in Reus with the mates from ARSU
• Sunday 10: Flea Market
• Saturday 23: Sant Jordi

Also, at any time:

• Express Naloxone Workshop
• MetziSpa
• Medical, health, social and educational support
• sleep during the day
• Clothes, washing machine, shower, food, computers, internet
• …and above all, solidarity and mutual support!

Schedule:

• From Monday to Saturday from 2:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., except Tuesdays from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
• On Fridays we are at the Ágora Juan Andrés Benítez from noon to 5pm, approx.; then we go to the local Metzineres.

Address of the Metzineres premises:
Calle de la Luna, 3
El Raval neighborhood (Barcelona)

This Cabaret was held on 26 June 2021 at the Ocaña bar, during the campaign Support. Don’t Punish. A fantastic day for demanding drug policies based in health and human rights, with a lot of art and humour!

Artists:

• Womxn of Metzineres and Arsu
• Vidda Priego
• Marikarmen Free
• Alan Neil
• Translocura
• Troya Modet

Rec: Pepe Molina Cruz
Edit: Carmen Molina

This is the video that our colleague and graffiti artist, Maligneando, made live during the conference “Surviving the war on drugs” that we runned at the Awid feminist festival.

She was collecting the different key concepts that the speakers were mentioning about the survival strategies that they and their organizations carry out… and she created this unique piece 😊

To watch the full conference, click here.

Music by Tania López!

A voice cast representing people who use drugs and civil society organisations defend, in the act of 26 June 2021, “Support. Don’t Punish”, the need for urgent reform of the paradigm of war on drugs.

Faced with the strong impact of gentrification processes, multiple and complex realities of the Raval resist rootlessness, generating multicultural cohesion spaces, organizing resistance from solidarity and mutual support.

The violent state of transformation confronts the voices of its inhabitants, unwilling to turn off or disappear. Honoring the fame and nickname of that Chinese District that the Raval proudly inherits.

Of all these voices, the most marginalised. The voices of women and non-binary gender people, the Metzineres, survive multiple violences and vulnerabilities from generating free and autonomous spaces. Creativity born of precariousness.

In this context, and within the Arnau Itinerant Theatre program, the MetziRadio emerges. A socio-cultural laboratory that distils self-determination from unique experiences through the techniques of story telling and theatricalization, created jointly by Metzineres, RavalTep, Vidda Priego and Marta Molina.

Listen to all the programs here:

• Listen on YOUTUBE
• Listen on IVOOX

Informative material with harm reduction tips, detection of overdose, protocol of action in case of overdose and in the use of naloxone.

Content: Metzineres
Illustration: Maligneando