Amsterdam Nation-Map of Junkie Mokum

Title

Amsterdam Nation-Map of Junkie Mokum

Author/Creator

Peter Pontiac (artist name of Petrus Josef Gerardus Pollmann, 1951-2015)

Date Created

1992

Temporal Coverage (Time Period)

1970 – 1990

Abstract

Image of hard-drug related places and spaces in the Amsterdam City Center in the 1970s and 1980s.

Description

The Dutch Underground comic artist Peter Pontiac, who used opium and heroin in the 1970s before quitting the habit around 1980, created this image on request of the Amsterdam Mainline Foundation. The image represents meaningful places for harddrug users in the Amsterdam City Centre in the 1970s and 1980s: places for drug consumption such as the Junkieboat, places for drug dealing such as the Binnen Bantammerstraat and the Zeedijk, and places for prostitution such as the Lange Niezel.

Subject

Places of drug use, sale, addiction treatment, drug related crime

Type

poster

Source

The poster was made for Mainline magazine; Mainline is a Dutch organization with a mission is to promote the health and improve the legal position of people who use drugs: without primarily reducing drug use itself and out of respect for the freedom of choice and possibilities of the individual user.

https://mainline.nl/page/home

Rights Holder

Mainline Amsterdam

Narcotic Archive Item-ID

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