Marijuana imposes its law in the northern district of Granada

The daughter of Vero descends the Hotel Luz stairs while wearing a neatly-placed school uniform. a dilapidated nine-story structure in the Cartuja industrial estate, in the region of Granada to the north, where families not involved in drug trafficking coexist with indoor marijuana plantations.

When the street lights are still on and nobody expects the ones on the landing to be on, the 11-year-old girl descends from the seventh floor, groping the chipped wall, one step at a time. The elevator has been out of commission for decades. At the end of November, around the time that people were leaving for class, there was a previous raid on the property.

1,500 plants were taken by the police, and the general supply box's illegal couplings were ripped apart by two technicians from Endesa. The three-day blackout that followed that raid was endured by Verónica Fernández, a 38-year-old unemployed cleaner, his two children, and his partner.

A total of 22,000 people live in the neighborhoods of Cartuja, La Paz, Almanjáyar, Nueva Granada, and Rey Badis, where power outages are intermittent. In the past ten years, no one has been able to heal a wound in the Alhambra city.

The supply company claims that the hidden plantations in the homes consume so much energy that they bring the network to a halt. However, the City Council has requested that the company update its infrastructure and "redistribute power loads with the aim of delimiting the areas dedicated to criminal purposes," in the words of Councilor for Environment and maintenance jacobo calvo (PSOE).

Two years ago, Endesa was accused of violating fundamental rights by four social organizations, including two religious organizations. For this reason, the Court of First Instance number 15 of Granada has abandoned the initial legal action against the company.

Judge Marta Benavides asked the district health center to provide a report during the investigation that details "serious limitations in the north for daily hygiene, food, or study.". According to a municipal inspection commissioned by the Applus certifier, "the truth is that three out of four supplies in these neighborhoods are regular and are up to date with their payment.

In order to grow marijuana, only 2% of people use light. Like Fernández, the majority of them do it to survive.

She questions whether her children must bear the consequences of what other people do in their homes. She bemoans that she can't use the freezer because everything has gone bad.

The bathrooms, kitchens, and bedrooms in his building are cluttered with indoor plants like those that were seized. According to Endesa's calculations, they consume the same amount of energy as 80 homes.

The electrical security of the building is changed by the illegal couplings used for cultivation, and as a result, the power jump goes straight to a company transformation center. These can withstand brief increases in demand, but when a peak lasts for an extended period of time, the fuses blow, starting fires and cutting off power to the supplied buildings.

The uncertainty has been fully realized. In the north of Granada, there were 23 failures of this kind every day last year.

According to the business, each one affected a thousand residents and lasted an average of an hour and a half. In this instance, 43-year-old Naima Mrbaret gets off the bus in Cartuja after her workday with the same nagging doubt that she has experienced before: "Will I be able to prepare the meal?".

In the kitchen of the restaurant where she works, this Tunisian mother of two preteens spends the first half of the morning hustling for other people. Every time the leads melt, his family is compelled to request a plate from the butane gas-using neighbor.

When the power goes out during the stew, Mrabet looks out at the stairs with the pot and inquires as to who has light so they can finish it. Despite the fact that we pay the bill each month, cuts occur all the time.

We conduct our daily lives in this manner. He recalls, adding, "Fortunately, we are united, before making sure all of his switches are turned on.

According to the most recent report from the Andalusian Prosecutor's Office, 32,000 cannabis plants were seized by the National Police in the area over the course of a year. A knowledgeable representative of the operations acknowledges, "But the next day they move back to the Hotel Luz.".

Raids by police helicopters don't have much of an impact. On the extension of low houses, this marijuana epicenter with Granada as its place of origin is located.

Garbage bags filled with flowerpots, empty fertilizer bottles, and plant substrate are everywhere in the open area behind. You can see the Granada players practicing in their sports city clearly from Fernández's balcony up top.

With soccer activities, they could already enlist the help of the neighborhood children, she snarls. In order to relocate the slum community of La Virgencica, the Hotel Luz was constructed in the 1980s.

According to the name that was eventually given, the social housing with a buy-out option must have astounded its initial tenants. Inside the structure, there is graffiti that reads, "Hotel Sombra," which serves as evidence of the subsequent degradation.

According to a fiscal count, the one anticipated by the 16 clans who had already occupied the territory. They go by the names Los Mocos, Los Gordos, Los Mararas, Los Mindolos, Los Pitufos, the matriarchy of Las Capotas, or the matriarchy of Los Gordos.

They consume food and rest next to the plants that they themselves watch over. The market in Europe is invaded by its economies of scale with shipments at incredibly low prices.

A man connected to the clans who had a life-changing experience outside the city described how what is produced in this region is exported to Asia. The weapons are the danger.

One can now be found on the nightstand of any chavea. The owners of this company want peace for their families.

He recalls that "weird [bad luck] enters the house when lead and stab wounds occur. Despite the fact that warning shots fired into the air are more common than not.

The last known overturn, one of those sporadic and violent material thefts between traffickers, came to an end in 2017 with the death of a young Moroccan. Some streets that poverty also feeds on are devoured by the narco's destructive power.

The average lifespan of someone living in the northern zone is eight years shorter than that of a neighbor in the city center. As a group, they experience twice as many severe illnesses as the general population.

Inactive people make up three out of every four unemployed people. Everything is in line with the Local Inclusion Plan dossier, which the City Council is promoting and which paints a troubling picture of the final area of Granada that is firmly rooted in the 20th century.

In her office at the Cartuja health center, family physician Marta Garca, a co-author of the report required by the judge in the Endesa case, claims that these conditions "are exacerbated by supply interruptions.". A sign protesting the electrical blackout is displayed at the entrance.

"What we're talking about here are frequent, erratic, and protracted outages that affect our way of life. She emphasizes, "From the air conditioning of some houses that are already inadequately insulated to the challenges faced by those who are electrically dependent.

The profile that gives me the most anxiety is that last one. Patients who require an electric wheelchair, a nebulizer to inhale medication, or air compressors (also known as CPAPs, which are indicated in sleep apnea).

The health center recently received a call from a man who was feeling extremely dizzy. He was in such bad shape that he couldn't even get out of bed to let the doctors into his house.

They had to use force to open the door, and once inside, they discovered a very serious diabetes complication that could only be treated in a hospital emergency room. The moment is described by Dr. Maribel Valiente, who also signs the report, as follows: "Due to a vision issue, the man was not able to distinguish in the middle of the blackout the amount of insulin that he had to inject.

In cases where he was unsure, he preferred to delay the injection, but the sugar started to rise steadily. That is something I'll never forget.

Despite the fact that there have never been more marijuana seizures, the issue of the plantations is still firmly rooted in the region, according to the Government Delegation. Similar to how sporadic power outages persist despite the supply company's eight million euro investment over the previous three years to upgrade its infrastructure.

According to 35-year-old Jean Baptiste Mangini, also known as Xio, "the northern zone is very beautiful, but also very much of a bitch.". This audiovisual producer strolls through the streets of La Paz with his head held high, much like a prodigal son, having just returned from Luxembourg, where he spends the majority of the year.

Two young people who were scootering up to him suddenly stop and inquire about the upcoming video of him. They want to flaunt their most recent tracksuit as well as the gradient that their local hair salons routinely produce for the media.

Xio would travel to the region during the summer to visit her uncles because she had an Italian father who lived in the Netherlands and a Granada-born mother. She recalls, "So, kids like these sold papers, I was freaking out.".

She completed her prison sentence in Belgium, built a successful fashion business, and then entered the music business. As happened in his day with the singer Maka, who left these streets and now fills the Wizink Center in Madrid, he returns to the neighborhood of his upbringing with the intention of fostering creativity and discovering hidden talent.

The intention is for the children to discover opportunities abroad. Xio is attempting to absolve himself of responsibility in this way.

The producer was forced to locate his studio in a Granada belt municipality. With a hint of rage, he says, "Otherwise, it's impossible to work, the leads jump in the middle of a production, and you kill everything.".

After all these years, nothing has changed. Who can go somewhere else.

Marijuana lays the law on him, and he wonders what the future holds. He continues to wait for the light, just like thousands of other people in the north.

that departed from these streets and are now stuffed into Madrid's Wizink Center. The intention is for the children to discover opportunities abroad.

Xio is attempting to atone for his guilt in this way. The producer was forced to locate his studio in a Granada belt municipality.

With a hint of rage, he says, "Otherwise, it's impossible to work, the leads jump in the middle of a production, and you kill everything.". After all these years, nothing has changed.

nobody else can be found. Marijuana imposes its law, and what future is this?.

He continues to wait for the light, just like thousands of other people in the north. that departed from these streets and are now stuffed into Madrid's Wizink Center.

The intention is for the children to discover opportunities abroad. Xio is attempting to atone for his guilt in this way.

The producer was forced to locate his studio in a Granada belt municipality. With a hint of rage, he says, "Otherwise, it's impossible to work, the leads jump in the middle of a production, and you kill everything.".

After all these years, nothing has changed. Who can go somewhere else.

Marijuana imposes its law, and what future is this?. He continues to wait for the light, just like thousands of other people in the north.

"The leads jump in the middle of a production and you load everything," he says, sounding slightly irate. After all these years, nothing has changed.

nobody else can be found. Marijuana imposes its law, and what future is this?.

He continues to wait for the light, just like thousands of other people in the north. "The leads jump in the middle of a production and you load everything," he says, sounding slightly irate.

After all these years, nothing has changed. nobody else can be found.

Marijuana imposes its law, and what future is this?. He continues to wait for the light, just like thousands of other people in the north.

Maribel Valiente, who also signs the report, as follows: "Due to a vision issue, the man was not able to distinguish in the middle of the blackout the amount of insulin that he had to inject.