Posted on 06/20/2017 2:11:27 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Police made 95 felony arrests over the three-day festival.
A 34-year-old man died at the Las Vegas-area venue of the Electric Daisy Carnival over the weekend.
The Clark County coroner's office on Monday (June 19) said 34-year-old Michael Adam Morse died Saturday morning at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. His cause and manner of death have not been determined, and Morse's hometown was not immediately clear.
Authorities say more than 1,000 people sought medical treatment during the three-night music festival during the weekend outside Las Vegas.
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Police made 95 felony arrests, 1 Dead, 1,000 Seek Medical TreatmentEDC Las Vegas 2017 Official Trailer
Introduction to Ecstasy pills?
They rarely put out national statistics in Germany over Ecstasy overdoes or emergency room visits, but I’d take a guess that at least 300 people every single weekend in Germany get dragged off for medical help.
Will probably start a new trend in drug usage in the US now.
I guess you you guess I am interested in your guess about the whole of Germany.
All this time, I thought loud music was just bad for one’s hearing.
What kind of music is improved by using drugs?
In the USA now: “Synthetic drugs that are sold as substitutes for cocaine and methamphetamine, are neither legal nor safe,” said James P. Shroba, Special Agent in Charge of the DEA St. Louis Division. “These substances were never intended for human consumption and only serve to satisfy the avarice of the seller.”
The Return of the Son of the Brown Acid,man.
Did you ever drink a beer at a concert? Alcohol is one of the most widely used drugs.
Grateful Dead music.
And, yes,there were drugs, ecstasy mostly, that makes you constantly feel thirsty (on top of the 106 degree heat).
The most surprising thing is only one person died.
We have our own long standing issue with drugs. PT 1
History Channel America’s War on Drugs...brought to you via the CIA. http://www.history.com/shows/americas-war-on-drugs
LONG POST: It is a MUST READ! It continues to this day with the push to keep our Borders WIDE open to these drug runners! History Channel’s “America’s War on Drugs”
I’ll just post a sort of synopsis for now—I think so far the series is good. I saw the first two episodes last nigh The first dealt with the 1960s and ‘70s, and showed how the CIA introduced LSD to the general population. They were performing mind-control experiments as a part of MKULTRA, especially Operation Midnight Climax (actually even sleazier than it sounds) and the Donald Ewen Cameron experiments at the Allan Memorial hospital in Montreal. Their biggest mistake, apparently, was signing up a young man named Ken Kesey as a subject at a hospital in Southern California, and from there the genie was out of the bottle. To Tim Leary and his hippies.
Then we see Nixon’s initiation of the official War on Drugs mainly as a means of cracking down on counter cultural elements such as antiwar protesters and black activists. Meanwhile, Vietnam becomes the epicenter of a heroin epidemic, and a veteran named Celerino Castillo gets tired of seeing his friends die and decides to join the DEA.
Then it’s on to the second episode, which deals with the late ‘70s and ‘80s. Fun fact: Jimmy Carter’s drug czar was a coke addict. The whole cocaine thing gets more serious, though, as the US enlists some decidedly dodgy allies to help overthrow Communist-oriented foreign regimes, ranging from the Medellin cartel to Klaus Barbie. (I wish I were joking.) Castillo’s work tips him off to what would eventually become known as the cocaine-Contra scandal, in which we helped establish a trade route that would enable us to ship arms to the Nicaraguan Contras as they shipped cocaine out. I knew about that, thanks to the fascinating biopic “Kill the Messenger,” based on the life of Gary Webb, who wrote an exposé on the scandal for the Washington Post. What I didn’t know was that George H. W. Bush knew all about it and was fine with it. Castillo recounts a revealing encounter with Bush at a Guatemalan embassy party that made him realize this. In the meantime, draconian laws disproportionately targeting crack cocaine users and dealers over powder cocaine users and dealers ensured that black Americans, who made up 12% of the population, represented 60% of all drug convictions by the end of the ‘80s. In the meantime, Oliver North, who was partially instrumental in getting crack into the country, walked away from Congressional perjury on the subject without doing a day of time.
G. Gordon Liddy went after the drug dealers, because he didn’t ‘read’ 1 their phony ‘Miranda Rights’ he was crucified.
So if you ever have an opportunity to see some of it, I would recommend it, at least so far. I hope the next two episodes are as good. We’ll see in the coming days.
People don't go to EDM festivals for the music. They go for the Instagram selfies. And the drugs. And the ocean of nearly naked females (who are also on drugs).
Sigh... I miss being young.
This being said, isn't 34 a little long in the tooth to be hanging out at EDM festivals?
I’ve never been to such a concert, and still have excellent hearing. (Essential for a birder).
No illegal drugs whatever—or would’ve never had my excellent careers in US Navy and Sheriff’s Dept.
Drugs aren’t enough to make Yoko palatable.
Maybe being on fire does it, but I haven’t yet found anything to make it happen.
Maybe being on fire does it, but I haven’t yet found anything to make it happen.
Propofol works well
IOW, it was a great success.
I’ve been watching the show. I remember in the summer of 1968 a civilian caucasian male roaming about a naval facility in San Diego with a supply of LSD and MDMA he was handing out. Rumor was the guy was a CIA officer and he was never bothered by anyone in authority.
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