'Marijuana refugees' give cannabis to epileptic children

Some parents from UK are giving a medicine produced with Cannabis to their epileptic sons. By the moment, it has not been scientifically discovered what cause the improvements that have the children who are treated with this medicine but it is thought that the component THC is the responsible of this.

 

I am not going to talk about this news in particular. I want to talk about weed and its punishment in most of the countries. It is true that cannabis is a drug and, in general, its effects are more negative than positive (excluding therapeutic cases), but punishment is not the solution. First of all, because weed exists and anyone can eliminate it; if you want to get weed, you can easily do it. Secondly, considering what I have said, we could eliminate most of the drug dealing only by regulating Cannabis sale through the government, like we already do with the tobacco. However, I am sure that all of this will be a reality in some years and Cannabis will be regulated and legal in most of the modern countries. 

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INTERVIEW WITH JOHN MALCOLM

John Malcolm was born in Derbyshire Liverpool in 1975. He studied in the Oxford University. He got a degree in Physics and now has become an expert in “Nanoscience and Nanotecnology”. He is here to answer me some questions that I have about the degree and about the profession that I could have in the future if I study Nanoscience.

What is “Nanoscience and Nanotecnology”?

Nanocience and Nanotecnology is the study of the science and its application but at a microscopic level. Even more little than microscopic level.

Why did not you do this degree and you choose physics?

When I was a student, this degree didn’t exist. It is quite new. But I have to say that physics is required in Nanocience.

What professions could I do after finishing the degree?

Well, as far as I have said that it is a new degree, it is difficult to say which career you could have in the future. However, the degree is a mix of a lot of topics like chemistry, physics, biology, etc. So, when you finish the degree, you can specialize, if you want, in a lot of masters.

What did you find interesting in this topic?

I find this part of the science interesting for two reasons: the first one is that, as I have said before, it is a mix and for me it is good to get knowledge about topics which are related but different too. The second reason is that it is an emergent science and it is the future, so it is interesting to do something new and to collaborate with the progress.

Why it is said that “Nanoscience and Nanotecnology” is the future?

Well, on one hand, this degree works a lot on improve and maximize the power with the objective to reduce expenses. On the other hand, it also works to improve renewable power, which is something that all countries want to dominate.

Nigeria abducted schoolgirls: Police reward offered

A few more than threeweeks ago, more than 200 girls who were studying for the final exams werekidnapped by the radical Islamic group called Boko Haram. Now, Nigerian policehave offered a reward of 300.000$ with the objective that these people who knowor discover something about the 200 abducted teenager girls call the police.

 

We talked recently in class about Human Rights and this is a fair example that human rights are very far from reality in a lot of places. This is an example too that there are people who still have thoughts and opinions from the past. Religions are the cause of that in a lot of cases; most of the religions are irrational so it is normal that most of them disappear in some years. Unluckily, they still exist and, what is even worse, there are groups like Boko Haram that take its most cruel ideas to the extreme. In my opinion, this problem will finish when all the people have quality education.

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ARE WE TOO DEPENDANT ON MOBILE PHONES?

The era of the smartphones has arrived and we tend to do all things through our smartphonel. This new technology is useful but we don't have to forget the rest of the things in our life; this is what a lot of people are doing.

First of all, we must avoid our dependance with the phone. It's true that most of the people could live without the phone during a period of time. However, there are also people who could njot do it; in fact, every day there are more people in this side.

Secondly, we have to be aware that the line which separates both sites is very thin. We must try to leave our smartphones behint when we are doing other activities with the objective to get over this addiction.

To sum up, most of us are not too dependant on the smartphone but we are near it so we must get away of the line that separates the dependance and the our own autonomy without the mobilephone.

WORKING TO GET A GOOD MARK

The visit to the UAB university made me finally decide which degree I want to get, even thought there are other degrees that are interesting too. It is called “Nanonciència i nanotecnologia”.

Unluckily, this degree is only cursed in the UAB into Spain so there are few places and the mark to entry into the degree is high, last year I think it was over 11. It is for this reason that I am trying to improve my marks and my objective is to get a Batxiller average of 8’5. If I do this, I will have completed my first step and the next objective will be to get a good result from Selectivitat; even more in Maths, Biology, Physics and Chemistry which are the ones that can help me more. There are other points that don’t depend on me like luck or the rising of the mark to entry into the degree; but, as far as they don’t depend on me, I’m not worried about that.

These are my objectives from now until summer but I won’t cry if I can’t get this mark because, as I have said before, there are other interesting degrees. 

IS THERE ANYTHING THAT CAN'T BE BOUGHT?

Nowadays, we live in a society that value money over all. This is capitalism. Capitalism shows you that the only way to progress is to desire money and try to earn the most that you can. No matter if some people end in the street; you are better, you have better ideas, you earn more money, you know how to destroy the competence. Who can blame you for being more intelligent?

We are like children; we want to accumulate properties to feel successful ourselves. We have forgotten how is the satisfaction to rich a goal, we only want to get it if, at the end, there is some money for you. This is, in part, education’s fault. The evidence of this point is that you are worse seen if you fight for an objective not related with money that if you cheat someone to get some money.

 An example: A commercial convinces that you need to buy a running machine to be well-looking. You buy it and you realize that, with your 40^th, you can’t be like when you were 20^th. Isn’t it a cheat? However, it is totally accepted in our society. The owners of the running machine company are more “normal” in our society that a person who work for free because he likes to do his work. How many people would present their TDR to a championship if there wasn’t a price for the best project?

Of course, there are other people that can’t accept these points. So there are two groups of people in our society: the first group value money over all and think that they can buy anything with money, they try to solve all the problems with money but they become stressful when they find a problem that money can’t solve. In this moment, when they realize that money is not always the solution, they change their position and start to own to the second group of people. The second group knows that are feelings that can’t be bought, so they value other things like friendship, love, motivation to have knowledge, etc.

The truth is that, in my opinion, everybody starts in the first group and almost everybody ends in the second group. The difference is that there are people who change the group when they are children, there are the ones who do it when they are teenagers, the ones who do it when they are adults and there are few ones who never will pass this step.

What I meant with capitalism is not that it is a bad way to govern, only that this type of society makes us to change the group much later that we would to in another society. 

RIGHT TO SEEK A SAFE PLACE TO LIVE

C/St Pau nº 32

Palau, Spain

3424

7th April 2014

Mr Mariano Rajoy
La Moncloa
Madrid

Dear Sir Mariano Rajoy

I am writing this letter in order to complain about the situation of the people who are losing their home and how the government is acting in front of this.

I ask myself if you or one of your ministers know anything about the Human Rights. Let me explain you something: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights were written in 1946 and were supported by all the members of the United Nations. If I am not wrong, Spain is part of the United Nations so I has to suppose that Spain support Human Rights.

I suppose too that you have heart something about people that have lost their home because they cannot pay the bills, the “Desahucios”. Even I think it is obvious, I do not want to argue about who owns the fault, if the banks or the people; I would like to know where is the protection of Human Rights. The 14^th Human Right says that everybody has the right to seek a safe place and what is doing the government is helping these people to live in the streets (which is illegal).

There could be a lot of possibilities to help these people, you and your government only would have to want to help them. In fact, your support for the Human Rights requires you to do something with this problem.

Thank you for your time.

I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,

Eloi Güell