14.09.2012
The popular Spanish prosaist Ricardo Cortes decided to make his input to educate children about the dangers of drugs. For this, he has written and published a story called "It's just a plant”
Among other plot twists, the book describes a scene where the main character Jackie, whose parents are chronic drug addicts, goes to the police custody, visits the drug treatment clinics where she talks to drug addicts. The addicts, in turn, share their problems and sufferings with the little heroine.
However society perceived the work with animosity. Spanish politicians and activists argue that the book has an opposite effect of what was intended - it provokes the interest of children to smoke marijuana. Many of them have already started to collect signatures in order to ban the publication of stories in a court case.
