Good evening. I'm Peter Sharoschi and you are watching Drug Reporter Cafe, a talk show on international drug policy reform. Today we will discuss the chances of drug policy reform in a Scandinavian country, Iceland, where the government announced in January that it plans to decriminalize the possession of drugs for personal use. I have two guests from Iceland today here who will help us to understand the situation in Iceland. The first is Svala Johannes Dotir, harm reduction specialist and the head of the first needle and syringe program in Iceland and currently the head of a homeless shelter in Reykjavik. And the other is Haldur Remorgensen, a member of the Icelandic parliament, the Alting, representing the pirate party, which is in the forefront of reform initiatives. Hello and thank you so much for accepting our invitation. Thank you for inviting us. So before we start discussing the drug situation in Iceland, can you both tell me a bit about your background? So how did you get engaged in the drug field and what are your personal experiences, motivations here? Let's start maybe with Svala. Yes, so I started to work with homeless people in Reykjavik around 2009 or 2007 and yes, so I have since then mostly been working with people who are homeless in the city and people who have an injection drug problem. I got to know harm reduction when I was staying as an exchange student in Holland in Utrecht because as we know harm reduction was very late applied to Iceland and we actually started the first harm reduction service in 2009. So in Iceland we are actually far behind and other European countries. Yes, so I have mostly been working in the shelters on the field and now more as a harm reduction therapist and a teacher and yes and through all this year I've got to know hundreds of people in my city Reykjavik who inject drugs and learn mostly I would say from there, from them about the situation because we have so little data about actually how their life is and actually about the drug market in Iceland which is quite different than in the rest of the mainland because Iceland is an island and most of the use here that people are injecting are prescription drugs. So methylphenidate, ritalin, morphine like contact in oxy that's our sort of the main drugs that people with severe drug problem are injecting and then after that we have cocaine and amphetamine. Thank you, Haldora. Well for me as a strange journey I guess it comes more from having myself experienced it so living through kind of the party scene as a young person and seeing a lot of my friends never getting out of it you know at some point it stops being a party and it starts being something completely different and kind of just being a witness to the suffering that is involved in getting stuck there and not being able to come out and harm reduction is something that I wasn't introduced to until much later but for me it was always more on an intuitive level where it just didn't make any sense the way that people were being treated and this whole idea of I researched a lot into drugs during a time and this idea that really drugs have always been available to mankind from the very beginning and this crazy idea that we would somehow be able to stop drug use with these methods of these authoritarian methods that are being used and it's just causing so much human suffering all over the world rather than preventing it and for me I was always thinking how do we prevent this suffering so when I was introduced to to harm reduction and these ideas of decriminalization it just intuitively made sense and then I started looking at the research and the science behind it and all of a sudden I realized that it was insane that we had not already done this because the system that is in place now does not have any research to back it up that it actually functions or works and really I don't understand how we are getting away with continuing with the system that it doesn't have anything backing it up that it actually works. So Swala you started to talk about the drug markets in Iceland and you said it's really different from mainland Europe can you tell us more about the drug scene in Iceland also are there like other drugs used like cannabis in Iceland can we and how do I mention party drugs so what drugs are used what are the main trends in this? Yes yes so I mean like most other countries people mostly use alcohol and cannabis these are the biggest type of drugs that people consume after that we see amphidamine and then cocaine and then you know when people have more kind of problematic drug use they sort of go more into the prescription market one of the reasons for that is because we're an island and it's more harder and more difficult to get drugs to the country we have seen that many of the drugs that are important or actually less there's a less quality and they are much more expensive so the drug drug market in Iceland is quite expensive the price has been stable for the last 10-15 years which no one really understands why but we see that the gram of cannabis is the same today as it was seven years ago we see that the price of amphidamine is the same price today as it was seven or 10 years ago the drugs that are we have noticed that the drugs that are produced in Iceland we have most of the cannabis is produced here most of the amphidamine is probably produced here we have a lot of upbringing in spice consumption which is quite sad because it brings a lot of health problems and we're seeing that big proportion of prisoners are using spice and I mean we completely understand why because they are punished if they use something else they try into you you know get away with the punishment inside the prisons and so we see like in other countries that when we see type of drugs being used inside the prison it's slowly with the years comes outside to society so yeah most of the people that I have been working with the last 14 years inject drugs or smoke opiates or a cocaine but when we look at the more of the partisan it's more kind of mdma amphidamine cocaine and then we have some kind of psychedelic drug scene just quite similar as in the mainland but we don't have maybe the same amount of viaries and it's really expensive for example in in Iceland there's no heroin there's no heroin use the heroin that comes to the country is usually imported by individuals who have have experience using heroin abroad and but it doesn't really go to the legal market to sell and when it has happened we have seen that the quality is quite bad and it's really expensive so people who like opiates people who develop an addiction to opiates they use prescription medicine like fentanyl plasters that they cook up or a cocktail or oxycontin if I if I answer the ball enough yeah fair enough thank you I remember back in 2015 I read an article in the UK tabloid the Daily Mail and it's not that Icelanders smoke more cannabis than any countries in Europe they have I don't know if you if you read that article and if if you if you can tell us if because I suppose it was not well I think from the statistics from Europe we are definitely not the biggest smoker of cannabis but what we have what we have seen of course in other countries lately that the the cannabis is getting much stronger and sort of that's kind of the main problem with the illegal market is that people don't have a choice people don't have a choice about what strength they want and what type they want and that's exactly what we have seen in the last five years in Iceland that the cannabis market is getting yes the THC is getting way stronger I'm not so sure like where we would rank from the latest numbers but I know that we are definitely not the top three if it answers Hadoora when you when you went to school how difficult was it to buy cannabis or any other illegal drugs when I was younger it was never very difficult it's always it's always been easy and I think it for for the kids often it was easier than getting alcohol you know but um but it also I think it depends a lot on obviously what what kind of cliques you're in at the same time but I think it's getting even easier maybe Svalak and I believe that they're using Facebook now and and social media to to to sell and buy and it's if anything technology it's just getting easier I'm also asking you because you know there is this so-called Icelandic prevention model which is now like advertised all around the world as something like a miracle you know that in Iceland in schools there is a specific you know drug prevention campaign and because of night curfews and because of some limitations of of young people and also like alternative recreational activities organized and and there was a dramatic decrease in the use of drugs amongst good children's and I was wondering how accurate is this picture or how how how much do you think that's that's accurate so when we look at the so-called Icelandic prevention model it is it is true that it has it did enormous in fact and one of the reason for that is because there were so many institutions in society was working together we have the school we have motivating families so there was a lot of things that that work together and and that's what we see that prevention if it's supposed to work it needs to have it cannot be isolated to to just the school or just a just solution it has to be a long term and many working together what interested me as a harm reduction worker is that we are worried that the the younger people who do develop an addiction who starts to have problem with drugs around 14 15 16 they are actually probably in a worse situation today than they were 10 years ago and we have a feeling I cannot say that we're sure about it that that's one of the reason is because of marginalization and because of harsh drug policy in Iceland when it comes to people under 18 and a prejudice against young people using illegal drugs or developing an addiction so the sort of mentality in Icelandic society is sort of zero tolerance and it's been very strong for a long time and obstinate based model have been used for a long time and nearly for everything when it comes to drug use that's one of the reason why Icelandic country started so late developing harm reduction service and so this kind of mentality of looking at drug use or drug problem in a different way is very new for Icelanders and I mean so many things have happened the last 10 years but we are wondering if the people the young people who actually develop some kind of problem or actually in a worse situation and that just has to be looked better into yes if this answers enough for you peter can I just jump in quickly regarding that because it's really interesting because I actually grow up in in the UK I didn't really come back to Iceland until I was 15 or so and I really felt this attitude that is talking about like personally living in England it was kind of normal that kids were playing around and trying to smoke joints and it wasn't really and a lot of people it's kind of even though it's legal in the UK obviously the attitude around it is that it's kind of normal it's kind of okay to smoke weed every now and then you know so even with the grown-ups and that was the feeling that that I had growing up there that this wasn't a huge taboo it was just a little bit like drinking alcohol whereas coming to Iceland I really felt that the idea of smoking a joint was synonymous to almost just shooting a heroin you know that was that that's kind of how how society looked at it but it was the same also with with drinking alcohol you know going to a bar and this is just a short while ago going to a bar on Tuesday and maybe ordering an alcoholic drink for lunch you know it looked at like you're an alcoholic or something it was crazy so this this attitude has been slowly changing but but I think it has the effect that that we're not truly informing kids in the correct manner like the information that they're getting they know is wrong because they can just go on the internet and read about it themselves and they understand that they're being lied to so I think one of the most important things when it comes to preventative methods is the information that we're giving kids that it's correct information and that we're treating them like they you know like they're sentient thinking human beings and and and not idiots I think that this is a huge step that we need to take and this if I can add one thing because I we have been I've been really we have been really thinking about this for the last years because we have our child protection law is quite unique compared to most countries it means that if you as a citizen or especially a professional you have an obligation to call the child protection if you have any concern for any knowing that the person under 18 is using substances and that means that for example people from 16 to 18 who may be are using illegal drugs or would probably need the harm induction service don't actually go there because they know that the law says that they have to call the child protection and what happens in the child protection in Iceland when they get that phone call is that usually a police officer is sent out to look for them to find them which is and actually a person that is not in a unit and not in a marked car and they are taking to two weeks to a lock up in which is called stiller because the approach says this abstinence only approach we need to stop the drug use and so there's a lot of complication there a the people the youngest groups that we want to use the harm induction service they do not come they either just maybe go to a pharmacy to buy in injection materials or they send someone who is already 18 so there's a little connection there because this is the approach they are afraid that if they go to a service on healthcare or harm induction service this is the process that will happen they will end up in in a child protection home and they are locked inside there for two weeks but how is it can i jump in Svala how is it with rehab with the rehab because this i find really interesting is that most kids it's just a natural part of growing up is that you show a sort of risk behavior is just one of you know one of these things that these all kids go through and so it's quite common that during this risk behavior time in in your development that you're trying new things and you're trying kids are trying drugs and in my understanding a lot of kids are ending up in rehab also with grownups and i know a lot of stories of kids were going to rehab with grownups because their system or their parents are forcing them to and they're coming really out of it with a lot more risk behavior you know because they're really getting to know properly people who've really been using drugs for a very long time and this i find a little bit crazy but also this is one of the reasons why i think decriminalization is so necessary is that instead of taking these kids and giving them the message that they're doing something wrong and really what they're doing is quite natural we should be creating a safe space for them to do it and because most of these kids are they're just going to try try and then they're going to stop there most of them are not going to create or have a bad habit of drug abuse you know this is a very very small group of people who end up there and then the underlying problem is something very very different to to the drugs that they're using the video you are watching now is produced by the rights reporter foundation a non-profit organization which is not supported by any governments or political parties if you like this show please support our work on our website drugreporter.net make a donation today and become our supporting member it makes a difference thank you yeah so as i understand the picture is not so bright as it is reported in the international media so but still do you think that it had some kind of success this this Icelandic prevention model in like reducing the number of teens who use drugs or what why is it so much hyped because it i mean for the majority of the young people it has had success we can see that in the numbers and there are people under 16 in Iceland drink less alcohol they smoke less weed and they are less likely to try other types of drugs than all of the other countries in europe that's what we see so for the what we would say majority of the people under 18 this or mostly 16 this prevention model is working really well what i am mostly concerned about as a harm attacks in warfare is that the younger people that it doesn't work for and we are worried that their situation the small group of people that they were just forgotten they don't fit inside this this prevention model and we as a country should have put a focus on this small amount of young people who already are in some kind of problem with drugs because of their living situation some kind of pain or other stuff and we would have wanted that the government would especially kind of think about how are we going to meet these people because i was a project manager for a mobile harm reduction car here in Reykjavik for five years from 2015 to 2020 and we would go around all of the city area and provide needle exchange harm reduction education and health service with nurses and sometimes we would meet people who just became 18 and when you start to hear their stories and about how many times they were locked up for these two weeks or maybe three months because they were forced to go into drug treatment and i'm not saying that you that we should never force this policy what i'm criticizing is that when you're meeting children or young people who have experienced this maybe 20 times 25 times 30 times in their life you meet them and they trust nobody they are even afraid to come to the harm reduction car they're afraid to what to say to you because the system broke the trust this is where i put the big kind of question mark and i think this is inhumane treatment to young people who are developing a drug problem and what sort of how we are approaching young people with drug problems in Iceland is similar to Sweden this kind of really yeah you know what i mean peter i don't know the english word for it tough love sort of tough love and zero tolerance of young people using drugs and i just want to make it clear i'm not saying we should never do it i'm just saying when we have when we are doing it for the fifth time or the tenth time or twentieth time i would want people to sit down and say okay this is clearly not working what can we do to make this person life quality better and help her to live through this if it makes sense yeah definitely and we have been filming in sweden about drug policies so i know what you speak about it's it's it's pretty interesting for me you know to see that all the scandinavian countries who had this very strongly rooted abstinence culture for several now they are kind of opening up to harm reduction and decriminalization but we can also see norway or sweden that there is in in sweden there have been no need to exchange for a long time and now there are some at least no way wants to decriminalize so do you think that now iceland is also opening up to to harm reduction and are there new opportunities in this regard yes we have managed i have to say quite a normal stink in this year's time and for example this program that i used to run which is called through rachner and is run by the red cross of iceland was sort of the first form of harm reduction service in iceland and it was really important not only for the clients for the drug consumption or the drug users society but also just for iceland as a country because the program brought kind of the message of harm reduction that we need to approach people in a humane way with compassion and empathy and love to stop this fight and just work together and have a conversation and you know all of this thing that abstinence only approach doesn't really have grounded in itself and the people who are working there now in the program they're just they're doing a fantastic work of going to the media of reminding us that we cannot break the rights the human rights of people who use drugs and then we have another organization called snaroting which is sort of a drug policy reformist organization and a harm reduction organization they have also been very active going to media writing articles being active on social media and so and then we have haltura and you know other people from the pilot party who and everyone have sort of been speaking up and demanding different kind of approach and in a very short time I mean I'm so glad that this had happened because I mean when I started 2007 I just couldn't believe how we were treating people I mean I was working in the shelter for homeless women I was meeting these women who were in so much pain you know and yeah I'm just so glad that 2021 you know we are there there's a bill in the parliament about decriminalization the government has approved now that we can put up and we can put up a safe drug consumption in Reykjavik I mean it's just so many things that happen in 10 to 15 years and I am very positive I know it's also like a lot of struggle and we have a lot of conservative people here who don't want any change but the group who's speaking for a humane drug policy which is built on science and compassion and to focus more on harm reduction I think that group is getting bigger and bigger and bigger yeah Hodor as a politician you it's your job actually to be concerned about public opinion what do you experience like is it is it difficult for you as as a member of parliament to raise these issues do you get many negative comments or reception from the public I don't know I'm quite dogheaded so when it comes to caring about the public opinion of course it matters to a certain degree but at the same time I'm very passionate about the things that I'm passionate about that makes any sense so I mean I started talking about medical marijuana here and Jesus that was not a popular topic and still isn't like I don't think I've ever been in in parliament in session speaking about any proposal before which has gotten so little so little input from from my fellow parliamentarians like there was literally no other party that would touch it and I still fought for it I think two or three times until I gave up and decided to change it over to CBD and I thought maybe that would be an easier step for people to take to to be willing to would legalize CBD which isn't a drug you know it's it should just be classified as a food or a vitamin but um but regarding the the decriminalization I think a huge part of this is also I mean there's been a conversation for a long time when the pirate party came to parliament first this is back in 2013 to 2016 the first pirate parliamentary group in in I'll think it they put forth and they got a proposal accepted to put together some sort of working group or committee to look at um what we could do to reform our drug policies and from that work there was a lot of points that came out and one of them was this this um drug consumption rooms that have now been passed and I think a a reason why like a huge reason why that was able to do that is also we have a health minister who is willing to push these things also and is excited about them too and that helps a lot to to have the current health minister pushing for these things so I remember when we were when we had this drug consumption room bill in the hands of the welfare committee for the first time I was chairing the welfare committee at that time and when the policy came to us it just wasn't ready because it had so much opposition from the police and a large part of it working in a society that hasn't decriminalized possession of drugs a large like intrinsic part of that working that policy is that the police are willing to play along you know because they really have to look the other way a little bit for this to work and stop harassing these drug users who are coming into these spaces with their drugs on them illegally of course so creating the safe zone for this we needed the police to be on board with it and they just weren't in the beginning so we had to send it back and one of the biggest steps I think is when we sent this policy this bill back to the minister of health we did so with a message from the welfare committee of Altingi that we were directing the minister of health to look at to take this a step further and to decriminalize drugs drug possession and this was a huge huge step and from that I decided to put forth this proposal or this bill of decriminalization because I saw that the minister of health wasn't going to do it and this is now now we've kind of pressed her to a position of where it's coming out now and I really have have big hopes for it but it's difficult because there's a lot of politics going on also behind the scenes and it's difficult to really figure out whether like who honestly is going to lobby for this to go through. So if I understand you well this safe consumption room is already it exists so it is something happening now? No, unfortunately not and everyone is waiting for it. The thing is that the bill went through and so you're allowed to run a safe injection site or drug consumption room in Iceland but the next step has to be because the interesting part which no one really understand is that in the law a municipality has to apply to a director of health in Iceland to open up a drug consumption rooms and drug consumption room in Iceland are sort of named a specialized health service so no one really understand why it's put on a social service to actually apply for a health care service and so there's some kind of thing we see going on there but the municipality of Reykjavík and the health ministry have given out that they are going to start a conversation about applying an open one but everyone is still waiting and the drug users on the street are waiting they're constantly asking they're like Sala when is this drug consumption room going to open because I mean in Reykjavík we don't have necessarily so many people sleeping outside because we have now four shelters for both homeless women and then homeless men but it is estimated that in Reykjavík we have around 350 homeless people who are living in a not safe environment and have to use the shelter sometimes and so the population that is often has to use drug outside is waiting for it and it's hard for me to say what's sort of stopping it but I think it's also this regulation that the social service has to apply for something and the health care is not taking responsibility of doing it themselves sort of on the political level it's also just the politics getting in the way of progressing you know it's it's always the local politics and the you know the parliament kind of or not the parliament the government just clashing a little bit on who's responsible for what and who's going to do what and it's a little bit of a mess and it's a sad mess because it's something that should just be done ASAP. Another thing that we are having also a little bit problem with is the analoxone it's actually a sort of a really sad situation is because the analoxone nasal spray or just analoxone in general is a prescription medicine in Iceland and that sort of means that the barriers for the person most in need of it is way too high and there is there is no drug use in Iceland who has analoxone we have no distribution of analoxone there is no kind of first aid or opioid prevention how do you say programs to and it came on the market in Iceland two years ago and we we tried very hard the harm reduction society in Iceland to push forward that it will be that everyone could go to the pharmacy and just buy it and get the training there or that the harm induction established harm induction service could distribute it but it was very hard and so we are also what has been happening now is that actually the services the shelters the outreach program the mobile inter exchange have also had difficulties of getting analoxone just for the staff but that went through I think one or two months ago that they made some kind of a change in the regulation for it but we really need to start distributing analoxone to people yeah because we had we have actually quite high overdose rate in Iceland compared to the rest of Europe and one of the reason is I mean the ground reason is because a stigma people are or afraid to call because if you call the ambulance in Iceland in 95% around yeah when it comes to drug use the police will come with them and so people are afraid to call the emergency line and because the police is going to come and they don't really know how the police are going to treat them if they're gonna take the drugs away or they're gonna arrest them and and so there is yeah there are these kind of small things that we are always trying to talk about and trying to get a change yeah it sounds to me that one of the main barriers in Iceland is repressive drug laws so can you tell us what is what does the law currently say about drug use so what are the sanctions and how would you how would you change that and what what is the current proposition in the parliament on how to change the drug law so is that to me um so now I mean we just have a flat out ban on all consumption and well not consumption but possession and buying selling distribution you know of drugs and of illegal drugs and uh what what we what we what's happening now is we have a bill from the the minister of health which is decriminalizing the the possession mainly of uh of of drugs for personal consumption the problem is that that everyone brings up the cryptics bring up is you know how are we going to define what is for a possession and not you know which is we shouldn't really have to find the wheel you know again because portugal have done this and and other countries have done this so we can look to other countries but the main conversation here and what I find is stopping this is always when we start talking about decriminalizing decriminalizing drugs for personal use someone talks about it as you're legalizing basically you're making it okay you're making it legal for people to have drugs possessing drugs for personal use and what about the message that we're giving to the children this is like the huge thing so then we're basically the message that we're giving to the children is that it's okay to use drugs and this really scares people and then they talk about how well we've been doing in in getting young people to stop using drugs as much so that this they almost talk about decriminalization the critics of this bill as if it's just going to all of a sudden open up the market more and and make all drugs much more available to young people and we're just going to have a flood of young people using using drugs if we're doing this so this is the main scare tactic that the critics are using and it's a real like it's a real fear and I think it's based in this misunderstanding that we have about what what addiction is and this is one of the things that I intuitively have felt for a long time but when I heard Johan Hari say it in a in a TED talk that the opposite of addiction is not sobriety but connection to me that was really a game changer and of course it is and this I think is something that the people who really oppose drug reform and decriminalization they don't understand this it's like they still have this belief that drugs have some sort of chemical hook that if you if you try a line of cocaine once you're just gonna you're gonna be a cocaine addict for the rest of your life like this this belief structure is still so tangible in Icelandic culture and I think in a lot of countries all over the world so that is I think the root cause and the basis of this misunderstanding that we're having in the conversation and it's difficult to fix it you know it's difficult to fix it but we're doing a lot lot better there was a poll recently in Iceland which showed that 60% of Icelanders are now positive about the idea of decriminalizing and that's huge that's a huge change that's happened in a really really short time so it means that we're doing well with the the conversation that we're having in Iceland regarding this issue and it means that that you know it's inevitable that change will come it's just a question of when now there's some very strange politics going on around the minister of health bill and I think a huge part of it is kind of our fault the pirates fault I say this in you know because we forced a vote on our bill during the last session we did this because at the end of every parliamentary session there's a period of time before we close for summer where we have negotiations between the parties on and we wanted to force a vote on our bill on decriminalization because they were trying to kill it basically they were trying to kill it send it back send it to the minister to work better whatever they were just trying to kill it because they don't want to vote because a vote is painful to them because they don't they're against it but they know it's going to cost them so that's it's kind of turned around in Iceland it's public opinion is with decriminalization but it seems that there's too many people in Alkopy still who are against it and they don't want to make their vote transparent to the public because they know that there will be backlash and that's exactly what we did we kind of we forced a vote and because of that a lot of people voted against and the bill was felt it fell it wasn't didn't go through and there was a huge backlash and the parties felt this they felt that really the people are wanting this and so the minister of health was really forced to put out this bill now that she has and unfortunately she hasn't garnered the support of the police the the surgeon general and the medical you the people in in the in the medical industry or the the healthcare sector she hasn't gotten the support of these groups which is incredibly important and that means that her bill is now in a precarious place when it comes to being able to whether we're able to to finish it or not before we conclude our discussion i'm asking you both just to you know to wrap up like uh how what would you see uh the most in like in five years where should island where should island be in five five years in terms of drug policy what are the main changes you expect uh the government to make or any any any you know new services to be opened uh no swallow should definitely answer this one first in five years i um i think we have most likely have opened up our first drug consumption room uh in Reykjavík there is um i mean the health ministry is uh has put aside 50 millions to open it in the collaboration of Reykjavík city so i think that will be open and i think just the whole harm reduction service field would have most likely grow because we're seeing uh enormous uh a positive uh aspect of it uh both with the uh our clients and also um like harm reduction services in Iceland they are actually quite popular when it comes to um the people in the country they are actually they get a lot of support people like Halter was was going explaining is that we have 60 percent of people now saying yes to decriminalization i mean that's huge i mean the same research was done i think three or five years ago where this was i think we didn't even reach 40 so i mean there's an enormous amount of change i am also hoping because harm reduction in Iceland has just been focused on people who have problems with drugs we have not managed to get harm reduction approach into a broader section of just drug use in general we have um festivals and the bar nightlives in Iceland uh have zero harm reduction approach uh we have it's really normal here with big festivals that they are they work with the police they have uh drug dogs inside the festivals and which can be really dangerous for young people who are seeking the festival because they consume so much before they're going i mean so i mean we are trying to open up that we just when it comes to this we need to put uh safety and health of our clients in broad respect as a front and harm reduction is the the most effective ways when it comes to that yes i think you know that's at least how i see it and of course i mean i have a hope that we will change the situation with naloxone because i mean if i have to admit i mean it's a disaster we have naloxone here finally and then no one can get it the people who were in the most danger uh and and they are asking for it they're asking why can i not have naloxone i mean they just so i think i know hopefully in one year we will start to distribute naloxone to people in a most need and you know i am positive that the decriminalization bill maybe not this one but maybe the next one we need to get it through because um it's a very uh how do you say it it's a very dangerous drug loss that we have here and it brings a dangerous kind of mentality around it and it sort of is a threshold of building up harm reduction in iceland we need demon decriminalization to be capable of doing it yes thank you adora i absolutely agree with svala and uh maybe just add that it's this always this conversation just makes me think of um the rat park experiment uh which probably most of of of your viewers know but this idea that uh where you have the rats in the bear cage uh who become addicted to cocaine and then you have the rat park where they have lots of activities and they have all of their rat friends and buddies and uh and none of them really seek out the the cocaine water you know they're they're just happy in their rat park and it makes me think of the society that we've created and uh also these stories of how how animals seek drugs um most animals on the planet seek out drugs when they're in a state of sorrow or anxiety or you know fear but mainly when they're sad when they're um they seek out drugs and to me i think drugs have a purpose they have a purpose in in our in our culture in our lives and society and it makes me think whether the societies that we've built ourselves are just these uh um creating this constant state of pain and sorrow and whether that is the reason why we're seeing so many people abusing drugs uh because we lack this sense of identity we lack this sense of security we lack this sense of connection and that makes me think really what we should be focusing on is the root cause like why have we built these societies this way and how can we change it and how can we why are we not putting all of our resources and knowledge in uh uprooting poverty all over the world the way that we see that we've been dealing with covid where all of these countries all over the world are coming together all of the scientists are putting everything aside to try to find a solution to covid what if we did this for poverty um i think we would be looking at a very very different world and i don't think we would be looking at the same drug abuse problems that we have today and i don't think drugs would even have to be illegal really so that is i think it's just important that we also look at this holistically and um and really start looking at the the root causes thank you and for my behalf i can tell you that it's really inspiring to see what you are doing in in island and not because not because island has so wonderful drug policy because we saw that it has not but but it's really inspiring to see that change is possible despite of this repressive drug policy and you are uh you are really like made a big progress in in in the recent years and it's it's it's also inspiring from my part of Europe where we don't see that change coming in the near future so so hadora aswala thank you so much for for accepting our invitation being with us thank you thank you so much peter i am so i'm so how do you say i'm so thankful for drug reporters because it's just uh such important a great work that you're doing and uh i'm always advertising it to everyone in in island and love the people are following you and so thank you for bringing us to let the world see a different kind of expected situation of people with different types of policies thank you thank you so much aswala and i hope that next time we will discuss island in drug reporter cafe we will you will you will speak from a country with the criminalized drug use and and thank you also for those who are watching us on facebook please follow us on facebook and twitter we will let you know the next what what will be the next episode of drug reporter cafe and don't forget that drug reporter cafe is operated by a non-profit organization so please make a donation for the rights reporter foundation thank you and goodbye


Otherwise, happy to introduce another Mozilla Tech speaker. We'll see a bit. I think pretty much all of us think the browser is now the platform, but then the excitement is you have a ton of different browsers. So if you want to make code that changed the behavior of the browser more than just a page, how can you do that across browsers? Awesome. That's my talk. Wanting everyone? So everyone can hear me at the back right. Perfect. Yeah, that's a mic check. We have been doing the whole morning, right? Cool. So yeah, that's me. Whenever I go back to my home country, India, I miss food. You can see it already. So today I'll be talking about cross browser extensions. What are cross browser extensions? Okay, what are extensions? Anyone? So here's the thing. I'm a super lazy speaker. I mean, I sleep while talking. I have a history of that. So just in case if I sleep, you have to wake me up with your answers. So once again, what are extensions? Anyone? Sorry? Plugins for browser. Plugins for browser. Anyone else? Okay, let's keep it simple. Anything that extends the functionality of a browser is a browser extension, right? Browsers are putted with bare minimum requirement. Maybe the tools which your developer needs may not be needed by a designer or a designer needs a tool which are not needed by a developer, right? So browsers are putted with minimum. So basically one size that fits all. But your browser, when... Okay, let me put it like this. Browsers are cool. Everyone agree to that? Perfect. So when it's suit up with extensions, it becomes a superhero, right? So it's not a new thing. Like since the browser-browser extensions are there, why we are talking in this conference about in this specific room about browser extensions?  So these extensions are made just using JavaScript. And how many of you use any form of extension or any extensions maybe Chrome, Firefox? Almost everyone. So any links which extension you use the most at Blocker? No scripts. Anyone else? STDPS everywhere. I love that personally. Empty cache. We have ample of examples. So just to have a revision, what an extension can do? This is like one of my favorite tool because I am super bad at it. If I write my call for paper without this, surely everyone will reject it, right? So this is a savior tool for me, like people who are really bad at grammar. Maybe Blocker ads and trackers. Anyone know this extension? Ghostry. Maybe using for secure browsing. Does anyone know about Facebook containers? Perfect. If you don't know after this talk, give it a try. Maybe better new tab experience. Like whenever you open a new tab, you may not like the stop things. Maybe you want some news. Maybe you want to do some search. Maybe you want a better UI. All that can be done via extension. Maybe manage passwords? Precisely. Anything you want with your browser. How to do that? Let's get started. This is an interesting part. I am just sugarcoating it. It's the most boring part of this talk because it requires some bootstrap coding. So this is a structure of extension. How it looks like. It is a manifest file. It has some components like containers, pages, browser action. These are fancy words. I'll make it simple for you guys. So manifest.json is the entry point of the extension. Whenever you create an extension, you have to tell the... No worries. Whenever you create an extension, you have to tell the browser what all your extension can do. What permissions it requires. And all the metadata like name, description, version. So these kind of stuff we put in manifest.json. Second thing is content script. So there are times when you need your extension to inject some script into the browser code. For example, you want to read all the anchor tags in the page. So you need to put some JavaScript code into the page. So this is the thing which is used to do that. These scripts directly is injected into the code DOM. Second thing is background script. Yeah, that executes in background. So what happens is content script are page dependent. Like for example, you open Google.com and you want to do something on Google.com. So that can be done via content script. But for example, you want something to do when the Google.com opens right before opening. You have to put the code in background script. This is page agnostic. Like it runs whenever the browser runs. It's not running only when your page opens or specific page closes. But this runs throughout the browser time. Page action and browser action. So these are pretty utility buttons like toolbar buttons whenever you want to give a functionality. For example, the first one is an example of an IP finder. So whenever a URL is open, you can click that small button and find what is the IP of the domain or where it is hosted and that kind of stuff. This is pretty page specific. Whenever a page is loaded, that depends on that icon. The second one is browser action. It's more generic. Whenever you click that, maybe opening a pop-up, maybe executing some action, maybe injecting a content script or maybe sending signals to background JavaScript. These are options page. The next thing is option page. So option page is basically this is a method how you put preferences in your extension. If you want to give user's facility to maybe change the color of your add-on or maybe some timing of doing events, this is a place where you can do that. And this whole thing is just HTML page. This supports CSS and JavaScript together. That was a boring word, trust me. Web extensions, APIs. So whenever I say or anyone say API, what comes in your mind? Anyone? Contract. Interesting. Sorry? True. But this time, I can say this comes directly from MDN. How many of you know MDN? I suppose JavaScript developers almost everyone know MDN. MDN is Mozilla developer network. It's a wiki of all the JavaScript basically. So these are the APIs which are built on top of browser features and has a native JavaScript interface where you can just plug in some options and do the actions. What basically I'm saying is with JavaScript, you are touching the browser's code. For example, as simple as throwing a notification, it's a native browser action. But you are doing that thing with JavaScript with this method, Web Extensions APIs. So the AMPEL APIs will see some of them. Notifications API. This is my favorite because this is most straightforward. You put some options and it throws a notification. Probably this is more of self-explanatory type basic. So basically it says like basic includes a message, a title. There are like image types. Just notification will have images. So it just does a simple task browser.notification.create. Basically it creates a notification which has icon on that icon.png. It has a title, my extension and with a message, my notification. Browser action API. So I just explained what the browser action is. So the interesting thing is like whenever you click a browser action, you have a pop-up, right? Like you guys have seen that whenever some irons have whenever you click the toolbar button, there's a pop-up. So how many of you know that that pop-up content is just a plain HTML page? Anyone know that? Now you know that. It's a plain HTML page which executes with JavaScript and CSS. You can do anything there like write anything, execute anything, maybe fetch APIs. Maybe what to say like for example live ticker. Let's say you want a there's a FIFA match and you want a live score. You have an API for that. You can just call from on that page and whenever you click that button, the score will be displayed here. It's as simple as that. There are more to that. Like for example you put you want to communicate to background script through a notification. Let's say so you can listen to that action on click and listen to the action on on click and the action can be done. There are sometimes like in some extensions you may have seen like there are small badges next to the browser action. So that can be dealt by like set batch text. Whatever you want to set you can set there. Tabs API. This is an interesting API. So this give you full power of tab. For example whenever let's say combined to browser action and tabs API. Whenever you want to open few tabs on click off a button you can use that API. Whenever you want to do some action on close of any tab or maybe on opening of any tab this can be an action. I will give you an example like let's say you're making an extension which keeps track how many times you open a Facebook page. So this can be a friend like on activated. I'm not sure if it's visible at the back or not but this is browser dot tabs dot on activated dot at listener. So basically you can put a function double script function whenever the tab opens and you can count like how many number of times Facebook page has been open. So this this is a very Navy example but I'm just giving an idea of how this can be used. New tab API. So this API just lets you to do one single thing. Change your new tab page. So you can create an HTML page maybe anything you want maybe just simple text and plug it here. So this this tab will replace the new tab the stock new tab and put your HTML page into this. Okay one more to go there. This is the most interesting API which I do anyone know about this web request API. It was in news recently so probably okay so this this makes you like you know super powerful as an extension developer. Like as the name says it's like a whole soul what to say owner of the web request. This API lets you to modify web request in any way. Basically it has multiple events on before request on send headers on on before send headers on send headers on header received on respond headers on completed and on before redirect or required. So precisely what to make it simple I may say like this with this web request you can let's say change the response header. Change the request header maybe block the request maybe redirect from domain A to domain B maybe stop the requirement. So let me put back this I think all of you know ad blockers right everyone has been using ad blockers. Do you think this API can be used to make an ad blocker of your own right this is the same exact API which is used to make every entry tracking every ad blocker. So this is a bit powerful so as one of my favorite movies dialogue with great power comes great responsibility right so please and please use this responsibility. The funny part is the funny part is every extension which is made is reviewed by reviewers manually and programmatically both in Chrome store and Firefox store. So enough of blabbering like I told you like this is like really I mean you know boring part for me also and I suppose for you also because as a as a listener I really am not into listening all the things like. Where's the code show me the code please show me the code. So I have to very silly silly very very silly around but just explaining the idea how it can be done. First first one is link painter by the name can you guess what it does. Sorry it makes the link stand out but I'm a really bad designer so it will be really bad so don't have your hopes I so this is a code basically these are two files this is one file and this is other file. So can someone tell me which is this file called manifest that chase exactly so it has some like name version manifest version description icons and the important part is content script. Remember I told content script few moments back what it does it injects JavaScript into the current page right so this is the format of content script everyone at the back can see this right perfect. So the two parameters like first is matches so matches for like if you want to inject this JavaScript at every page or maybe specific rejects pattern let's say I just want to do it on Google dot com domains or maybe just on Facebook dot com domains. So for being as lazy I am I just put all URLs like hey please do it on all URL and what to do just I'm inject this JS file here and this is my JS file probably if the mirroring works properly I will just. Here's my link painted here's my manifest JSON this is the content script and content script says oh it's really hard to coordinate together can we do a quick word wrap. So what I'm doing is very simple I'm getting all the anchor tags and just putting the style background read I mean yeah that's my design itself so sorry for that. So this is manifest so on all Mozilla dot org domains this script will be injected and it will do whatever is done let's try together hopefully this works so to install temporary add-ons we have to go to this specific page about debugging. And we can just load temporary add-on so I created link painter I'll give path to manifest.json and here's my link painter it has a small icon which I just copy and this is the name and like let me do two things. First I'll open if the Internet allows it's Google dot com nothing happened it's fine because we put a rejects for just Mozilla dot org let's open Mozilla dot org can you see a bit change view of this. So this is I know this is very lame very simple example but my idea is to make you understand like how easy it's injecting a JavaScript into the page and when you can inject a JavaScript into the page you can do wonders. So every JavaScript developer in my in this room do you agree to that like if you can inject a JavaScript into a page you can do almost anything everyone so that's the extension for you right. Let's try another one this is an example of something using content script. And I'll just remove this and reload the page just to make sure that all the things are gone. Now the second one which I really like is so I just created this as a fallback like just in case of Internet is not working or some that kind of stuff. So this goes like this. Second one is word counter. I bet you cannot guess what this add on can do. Okay. Oh I must hurry to say. So just I will plug into the code maybe so that we have a better idea as they will throw me out of the. So this is a manifest. This is the background script. I'm telling background script.js. Here is an interesting thing permissions. The permissions are required for some of the APIs or maybe all of the most of the APIs. So this will be notified whenever you install an extension like like in your mobile app right. So you will be having a notification like hey this add on wants to access your context menu and notification. So do you agree if you agree then only this will be installed. Sorry for my pace. I'm getting a bit faster. Hopefully that can match. So this in very simple example I'm doing three steps first thing is I'm creating a menu in the context menu means the right click menu. Don't worry it's available online. I'll just share the slides. So I'll create a menu and give the context like hey I want the data from selection whatever I select give me the data to the function. So whenever there is a context menu on click I'm adding a listener count me. Yeah don't just be on my variable names you know. So on count me I'm doing simple thing I'm getting selection text because I got the selection context here. And with that selection text I'm framing and splitting and counting the number of words and I'm just creating a notification like hey total words this words dot length and total character selected text dot length. Sound simple. Cool. Let's see it in action before my time run out. Okay. So let's this is the word counter. This is manifest.json. Okay. Let's go here like this is a background script so it runs page agnostic anywhere. So here is your first step you can see the context menu entry and when I click it you have a notification there. Total words total characters. Make sense. But but but. But but but. We started the talk like cross browser extensions right. This is all about Firefox. Did you notice. Then asked you know I told you like I sleep like please I totally forgot. So let's try this on Chrome. Does it work. I still have maybe two or three minutes. Let's test this quickly. Two minutes. Extensions. One thing we need to make sure developer mode is on so that here we can load unpack and it's link painter link painter is fine. Let's go to word counter. Let's open it and let's open it. Any website. Seriously. Sorry. Here's our entry and when we click it here is our next notification. Right. Thank you. Thank you. So there are a few things left probably one minute left so I'll quickly wrap this up security. I told you that whenever you put a permissions you will get a prompt that hey these sites want to do this like for example this Grammarly I know wants to access access your data for all websites. Yeah. That kind of stuff if you cancel it will not install if you add it will install debugging I showed you how to debug debugging basically why we say debugging because. Whenever you install whenever you install an add-on or extension in Chrome or Firefox these guys are looking at me like please hurry up I'll throw you out of the state. So you have to go through through this process because you can install only signed or otherwise add-ons or extensions in Chrome and Firefox. There are some tools web extensions or take where you can start learning. This is how you publish an add-on. These are some resources. And thank you guys. Hopefully I don't have time for questions so do I have yeah if you have any questions I propose to discuss outside. Sorry guys I mean I'm available outside you can just grab me there. Thank you a lot for the talk. It was very interesting. Thank you. Okay. Trust with you. I'm sorry to send somebody means to be sure you are here. Yeah. Okay. I'm putting it outside. Oh thank you. I have some goodies. I'm putting it outside this room. If someone is interested please grab it. Or maybe I can just keep it here if you don't let it do. Are you sure. Okay. While you set up please compact like a hard drive. Please I see here a place yeah. Ah. Okay. Okay. I think we're going to be busy today. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to get out of here. I'm sorry for breaking your own. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you.


what's up guys welcome to today's vlog so what we're gonna do is I'm gonna start off this vlog just telling you guys about a couple things the first thing is I announced the contest on the last vlog that was gonna give away the palmatial neuro angle iron now that giveaway is gonna happen this week so if you'd like to join in on that contest all you have to do is post in the comments below right in this video and say that you would like to get the iron tell me why you want the iron and so on so forth so what we're gonna be going over today in the video is I'm gonna do a block coloring technique for you guys and then also finish it with a really unique hair cutting technique that's gonna create a lot of texture we're also gonna cut a straight bang and it's gonna be on longer hair so I think the combination of all those things you guys will be able to use in the salon the block coloring technique that we did I took a mannequin that had really yellow blonde hair so basically the scenario that I'm looking at in this video is when you have that guest it's been kind of over processed is super blonde you want to take them down add a little bit of dimension to their color this is a great technique for that so we did a block color technique which is basically adding different shapes to create movement and depth within the hair color so this is the mannequin that we used you can see underneath here you can see some of these deeper tones that we created I wanted this to have a more earthy feel to it I use palmatial Demi hair color now the reason I chose Demi hair color is because it's got a nice opaque feel but it's also not permanent and any time I'm putting color on blonde hair I never want to use permanent hair color because I don't want to have to color over that to try to lighten it later on so the colors that I chose for this technique are all about creating depth and more earthy tones I think you guys are gonna like the color technique and then also remember I got a bonus hair cutting technique coming up at the end of the video as well so I hope you guys like the video make sure you subscribe to this channel right away so you never miss the new videos that I'm coming out with all the time let's get started with this step-by-step video here we go all right guys so we're gonna start off by mixing palmatial the Demi 7PA with palmatials processing liquid so that the reason I wanted to do the 7PA it's an ashier tone so it's gonna have a little bit more depth to it you can actually see on this chart how deep it is so it's a great color to overlay on blonde hair to add that depth so I did that mixed it two ounces to two ounces equal parts palmatial sent me this 20th anniversary sparkly bowl so I figured I'd show you guys that so I put that in and I mix it up with my brush and then my second formula is gonna be the 9MT which is their matte series it's got a little bit of a green undertone and then the 7N which is a natural tone natural brown so I put that in as well so I do equal parts of the 7N and the 9MT I'm looking for a level 8 that's about where the mannequin is anyways so really what I was trying to do is just take that kind of yellowy tone of the blonde and give it a little more of an earthy feel to it so I mix that up and then I start my sectioning my sectioning is pretty simple it's just using a lot of different triangles and circles so I take a circle right out of the crown area and just follow that completely around this is going to be based on the density so if you think about how a circle is going to fall over the head it's going to fall kind of overlaying everything so that's going to be my lightest tone that level 9 level 7 in there then I go through I draw a diagonal backline to the ear and then I draw a diagonal forward line from the back of the circle and just meet it about an inch above the ear then I draw another diagonal backline and then another diagonal forward line so I'm creating different triangles that intersect with each other and the reason I like doing that with this block color technique is it kind of it mixes every tone together without creating a stripey effect so as opposed to doing something more vertical straps or something like that you'd get really stripey color this overlays using more diagonal patterns diagonal partings and that's going to give you a more diffused look so right around the circles where I start I paint the first triangle with my 7PA you can see that purple kind of deep base to it it's going to be really ashy tone I love this formula also for anyone that you're trying to kill that real warm brassy tone in hair color you just put this on there work it through I use the permanent color back at the sink for maybe even like five to ten minutes on wet hair and it takes that warmth out as well but it is pretty deep so just be aware of that now I go in with my level 8 which is the mixture of the 9 and the 7 and I put that right along the face so I wanted to keep it nice and brighter on the face I don't want that the deep darker tone coming through the other thing about block coloring that I think a lot of people should understand is that it can look a little stripey if you don't pick tones that compliment each other and are also really far in level difference so right now I'm working with a level 7 and a level 8 so there's not going to be a big difference in the hair color so that's just going to give me movement but it's not going to really show up like wow look at all those different triangle shapes that he put in the head so I like this for keeping it nice and subtle you could also do it levels 4 and 5 if you wanted to create some dimension I think that block coloring is really cool because it's a technique that you can use on any guest that comes in the salon to create more movement and more natural look to their hair as opposed to just painting their hair all one color so definitely try this technique try it with all different levels not just with blonde so you can see I definitely wanted that deeper color at the the very bottom and again it's not like I'm putting a level 3 at the bottom and then painting the top of 10 so it's not going to make it a dated look it's just giving it that depth it's it's like if the Sun came down and naturally lightened her hair it would lighten the top the most and then by the time it got to the underneath it would be a much deeper tone because the Sun doesn't get to it so it's this is why it's a natural look to it so finishing up that's the 7PA as well I put the level 8 in between there to kind of break it up and then around the face and the bangs I do the level 8 as well so again this doesn't take much longer but I would charge about 20 $30 more because I'm going in and artistically putting in the different placement does take me maybe 10 more minutes to do this type of application so it makes it worth it to just charge a little bit extra money and your guest is getting the full benefit of a more natural look on her hair so just finishing up on the top I'm going to paint that also the level 8 so we'll just work my way through there I paint all the way around the circle first and then I just take vertical straps across and work small sections because obviously this is also the most important part it's the thing that's going to veil over the whole look so you want to make sure you get everything fully saturated with the color. The thing I like about the Demi it does seem to I haven't used it a lot because I use PM shines for for a very long time this is a newer product with Paul Mitchell maybe a year or two but I really love the opaque-ness I if that's a word of this color I love the coverage that I get but also the wet feel of it it saturates the hair really really well so I never really have a problem getting it saturated and having any spots on the hair so that is the technique so I'll spin around you can see all those different sections create that dimension now we're going to pop right into the haircut so we've already smoothed it I've already done all of that work if you guys want to see any smoothing videos check out the other ones that we've done so I go through this girl how to bang already but I wanted to bring it up give it a little bit more of a hard line to it and also get it out of her eyes so what I do for that technique and you can also see the color popping through there is I lift the hair up with my scissor the tip of my scissor I'm using the Mizutani puffin dry cutting scissor I really like this one for obviously dry cutting but having a different scissor for dry cutting is so important because it keeps your scissor from getting dull and also if you look at the puffin has super thick blades which makes it really strong for dry cutting as well so I lift the hair up with the tip of the scissor I place it in the comb and then I go through and I cut my blunt line then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go through and do a technique called stroking and what I do is I start the mid shaft and I slide my hand out and I create all these different layers and texture within the cut what that's gonna do is open up the top part of the haircut and expose that underneath depth that we created with the 7PA so that's really my goal is just to go through this and use the stroking technique to create kind of not uniform layers more textured layers and expose that depth and show off the peaceiness of the cut now what I'm doing for this cut I'm going to show you guys the breakdown of the stroking technique in a second but my over direction is coming right in front of the face so you'll see how those layers kind of start to work their way a little bit longer towards the back so I go straight out from the head and bring everything to a stationary guide at that point now here's the stroking technique a little bit slower you can see I come down I close on the hair and I release it up and kind of throw that hair off of it that's basically the easiest way to do it I have my thumb halfway in the scissor so I'm not trying to hike my elbow up too high and I just let the scissor kind of bounce down onto the hair and close as I hit down and release up you could also elevate this way up and do a really deep point cutting technique but I just like the stroking technique I think it looks cool and it's also it gives me that kind of more lived-in result than point cutting does so same thing vertical parting and then I over direct everything right to the side of the head to the eye in the front and that's going to give me that push of weight towards the back this is the Paul Mitchell neon sugar dry cleanse and sugar dry conditioner these are two new products from Paul Mitchell I'm not going to use them on this mannequin but I do think for this kind of look or something that's looking for texture this line of products is really great and also the sugar tease it's a texture and hold spray so it does have a little bit of a wet delivery and a pretty firm hold what I realized when I was spraying it in there so what I did I really love the texture it gives the hair so I spray it in and then what I do is I brush the product through and that kind of broke it up and then when I put my hands into it the texture really comes to life so I liked that you could if you like a firmer spray you could just leave it the way it was as well but also check out that depth in the different movement that you get from the hair color I hope you guys like that look I hope you guys can use this in the salon let me know if you have questions in the comments below here is our finished result thank you so much for watching I'll see you on the next video thanks all right guys like always if you like the video and you liked this color technique and cut then make sure you hit that like button also subscribe to this channel if you have not done that already I would really love to have you part of this community I'd love to hear your comments below as well so we can start up that conversation and one other thing I want to mention to you guys before I go is that Paul Mitchell is having a hair coloring contest on the internet go to color outside the lines dot Paul Mitchell dot com and you can get all the details on there but they're doing a natural makeover contest and also a creative makeover contest the thing it's awesome about this contest is that you get to win tickets to their big hair show in Las Vegas called the gathering it's something I love going to I will be there this year so hopefully we can meet each other but all you have to do to enter the contest is go to color outside the lines dot Paul Mitchell dot com you'll get all the information and you can submit all of your work and everything to it so go check it out I'll link in the description below also don't forget to go to free salon education dot com to get any of these tools combs clips scissors all that stuff you want to purchase and we have tons and tons of more free salon education videos on there that you can watch for free so go check out free salon education dot com thank you guys so much for the support I appreciate all of you and I will see you guys on the next video thanks