young people

Police Discrimination

This video shows two responses by the police to the same situation in the first part the police act aggressively and basically accused the group of wrongdoing without justification. In the second part of the video the police approach the group in a more suitable way asking them to move on without getting aggressive about it.

Out Loud: voices from Lebanon (part 1)

My experience with drugs started first while I was in Saudi Arabia. And even though alcohol was very expensive to buy, Hashish was rather common and cheap. Almost everyone that I knew smoked hashish or had at least tried it at some point. Being a foreigner, I used to live in a compound where there was no police present, making it much easier to get the hashish. So all that it took was some peer pressure from those around me and my desire and curiosity to live my life and try new things for me to start smoking Hashish.

Prospects or prison: A young person’s brush with the law

It was in 1999-2000 when hip-hop got more and more popular in Poland. While listening to Polish rap music, I wondered what rappers meant by ‘smoking weed’ or ‘rolling a spliff’. When I was 13, I had my first opportunity to understand. Older school mates asked me If I wanted to “smoke some weed” before classes. Since it was a public holiday, we did not have regular lessons, except for a principal’s speech and a trip to a museum. I decided to abscond, and tried weed for the first time.

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