The first Cannabis club I visited was in the neighborhood of Gracia, where I conceived the idea of photographing the members during the typical activity that defines these spaces, smoking. My intention was to capture and preserve the precise moment of symbiosis established between the subject and the object.

The following is a gallery of 80 members of that club.

They, the consumers, on their long and immense stage, are the most important and most affected part of what is happening in the world of cannabis. Associations, cultivators, seed banks, or grow shops would not exist without them. The number of people who approach this reality is massive. Not all of them smoke, and not all of them agree to be photographed. Yet all of them are waiting for regulation or legalization, seen as the weapon to defeat the black market and the delinquency that surrounds the drug trade.

They value and defend the major improvements achieved since 2011, but they still cannot understand the controversy and rejection that continue to surround this plant. There is little recognition of its medical qualities or of the eco-sustainable transformations that could take place if cannabis, and its use, were legalized.

A plant is a symbol of fertility, growth, and abundance… but in some cases, cannabis becomes merely a pretext for prohibition, a denial born out of speculation and control. Today, cannabis is the substance that generates the most income, both illegal and legal. The number of people drawn to it keeps growing, especially in this historical moment of change: a time of legislative reform, the disintegration of old social identities, and, above all, a slow but undeniable moral shift.