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101 US: Raving MadWed, 24 Jul 2002
Source:Metro Santa Cruz (CA) Author:Connor, Mike Area:United States Lines:268 Added:07/30/2002

New Anti-Rave Bills Working Their Way Through Congress Are Meant To Stick It To The Makers Of Illegal Drugs, But Music Promoters Say They'll Be A Nightmare For Civil Rights

WE ALL KNOW that youth culture has already gone mostly underground. Even the most respected promoters run into trouble putting on anything remotely edgy for the under-21 crowd, and the word "rave" in particular has become a dirty word over the last decade.

But you ain't seen nothing yet. If a couple of extreme pieces of legislation being considered by Congress go through, even that cute little sock hop you've been dreaming about having could end with SWAT teams crashing through windows armed with high-powered odor-eaters and a warrant for your arrest. All because someone at your event was doing drugs--even if you didn't actually know about it. After you pay a fine in accordance with Title 18 of the United States Code, we'll see ya when you get out of the slammer--in about nine years or so.

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102US CA: OPED: Bill To Counter Ecstasy Use Is Nothing To RaveMon, 29 Jul 2002
Source:Los Angeles Times (CA) Author:McColl, William D. Area:California Lines:Excerpt Added:07/29/2002

Nearly 20 years ago I had an experience at a very large event that truly scared me. I watched a friend, clearly under the influence of a drug, pitch headfirst into a wall. Fortunately there was water and an ambulance on the scene. He spent the night in the infirmary and returned to us, chastened.

I was reminded of that incident because a rapidly moving bill in the U.S. Senate may force nightclub owners and promoters to eliminate having water or ambulances available in case of trouble. Senators on the Judiciary Committee, famed for their ability to bottle up judicial nominees for years, introduced the Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy (RAVE) Act and got it on the legislative calendar in less than a month.

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103 US CA: OPED: High Anxiety- Irrational Fear Of EcstasyFri, 26 Jul 2002
Source:San Francisco Daily Journal (CA) Author:Zeese, Kevin B. Area:California Lines:146 Added:07/26/2002

During the 1980s, in every election year, the U.S. government enacted new anti-drug laws. But in the 1990s, as the costs from the election-year drug-war pandering began to come due, we thankfully did not build on those mistakes.

This year, the big drug fear is ecstasy (MDMA). The U.S. Senate seems to be rushing toward enacting an election-year anti-ecstasy bill. The bill is called the Reducing Americans Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act of 2002 (S2633) (the RAVE Act).

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104 US CA: OPED: High Anxiety- Irrational Fear of EcstasyFri, 26 Jul 2002
Source:Los Angeles Daily Journal (CA) Author:Zeese, Kevin B. Area:California Lines:143 Added:07/26/2002

During the 1980s, in every election year, the U.S. government enacted new anti-drug laws. But in the 1990s, as the costs from the election-year drug-war pandering began to come due, we thankfully did not build on those mistakes.

This year, the big drug fear is ecstasy (MDMA). The U.S. Senate seems to be rushing toward enacting an election-year anti-ecstasy bill. The bill is called the Reducing Americans Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act of 2002 (S2633) (the RAVE Act).

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105 US: Bill A Buzzkill For RavesMon, 22 Jul 2002
Source:San Francisco Examiner (CA) Author:Stoll, Michael Area:United States Lines:82 Added:07/25/2002

Raves, it turns out, are not what we have been brainwashed to think. They definitely are not sweaty, high-decibel, all-night drug bazaars.

How could members of Congress ever think such a thing?

No, event promoters argue, raves are cultural events. Raves are musical free speech. Raves are art.

Not everyone buys that. Certainly not a bipartisan group of senators, including Delaware Democrat Joe Biden. The lawmakers say raves are thinly veiled drug parties, and want to hold event sponsors financially and criminally responsible.

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106 US CA: Edu: Editorial: Lawmakers Target Raves, Not IllegalTue, 23 Jul 2002
Source:Daily Californian, The (CA Edu)          Area:California Lines:35 Added:07/23/2002

Federal and state lawmakers have declared a crackdown on ecstasy use.

But instead of correctly taking measures to target illegal drug use, legislators are missing the mark.

A state bill, AB 1941, would make it more difficult to get a permit for "any electronic dance event of the type commonly referred to as rave parties" that have "500 or more persons."

Separate federal legislation, dubbed the RAVE Act, would bring raves under the federal "crackhouse law," which prohibits providing a place for illegal drug use.

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107 US NY: PUB LTE: Bill Pushes Prison For Marijuana SupportersSun, 21 Jul 2002
Source:Times Union (Albany, NY) Author:Wouk, Walter F. Area:New York Lines:55 Added:07/22/2002

The Senate is poised to pass legislation that would give the federal government enormous power to fine and imprison supporters of marijuana legalization, even if they've never smoked marijuana.

The bill, known as the Reducing American's Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act (RAVE Act-S.2633), was introduced in the Senate on June 18 and has already passed the Senate Judiciary Committee. It is moving very rapidly and could be passed by the Senate by the end of July. (A similar bill is also pending in the House).

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108US: Congress Crashing Raver PartiesSun, 21 Jul 2002
Source:Indianapolis Star (IN) Author:Montgomery, David Area:United States Lines:Excerpt Added:07/22/2002

Music fans, ACLU fight bill extending a crack house law to cover dance events.

WASHINGTON -- Two young women on an urgent mission have been lugging boxes into the offices of U.S. senators this past week. The boxes contain petitions an inch thick, one for each senator. Nearly 10,000 signatures were collected on the Internet in five days.

The petitions declare: "This bill is a serious threat to civil liberties, freedom of speech and the right to dance."

Look out, Congress: The ravers are coming.

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109 US DC: Ravers Against The MachineThu, 18 Jul 2002
Source:Washington Post (DC) Author:Montgomery, David Area:District of Columbia Lines:160 Added:07/19/2002

Partiers And ACLU Take On 'Ecstasy' Legislation

Two young women on an urgent mission have been lugging boxes into the offices of U.S. senators this week. The boxes contain petitions an inch thick, one for each senator. Nearly 10,000 signatures were collected over the Internet in five days.

The petitions declare: "This bill is a serious threat to civil liberties, freedom of speech and the right to dance."

Look out, Congress: The ravers are coming.

"We're offended by the fact they're blackballing an entire musical genre," said Amanda Huie, checking senators' names off her list Tuesday afternoon.

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110 US: The War On RavesWed, 03 Jul 2002
Source:SF Weekly (CA) Author:Strachota, Dan Area:United States Lines:85 Added:07/10/2002

Forget Terrorists; Let's Fight The Dancers

You can dance if you want to -- well, no, you can't The government doesn't want you to dance. Actually, the government doesn't want you to take drugs, and it thinks that getting you to stop dancing -- or buying plastic tubes of neon to wave in the air -- will cut down on your drug intake. Nothing, and I mean nothing, should ever stop you from exercising your right to wave a glow stick. It's right there in the Constitution, sort of.

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111 US: For Partygoers Who Can't Say No, Experts Try To Reduce The RisksTue, 25 Sep 2001
Source:New York Times (NY) Author:Stryker, Jeff Area:United States Lines:192 Added:09/25/2001

Despite frequent admonitions to "just say no," some people -- from their teens to well past middle age -- will use drugs anyway.

Acknowledging that reality, some experts on drug abuse are advocating an approach called harm reduction, which says, in essence, that while drug use should be discouraged, people who do take drugs should be taught to do so in the least dangerous way possible.

Harm reduction is controversial. Proponents say it can save lives, but critics say it means giving up on the drug problem, and may condone drug use and lull people into thinking drugs are safe.

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112 US: OPED: A Quagmire for Our TimeMon, 13 Aug 2001
Source:American Prospect, The (US) Author:Schrag, Peter Area:United States Lines:569 Added:07/27/2001

At least since 1996, when voters in California and Arizona approved ballot initiatives legalizing the medical use of marijuana, Americans have been trying to send the same message to Washington, D.C.: The nation's escalating, $20-billion drug war is a disastrous and costly failure that is stuffing the prisons, ruining thousands of lives both here and abroad, and producing few perceptible gains--except maybe in the careers of politicians.

With every passing year, the message becomes louder.

In elections that followed passage of the California and Arizona initiatives, similar measures have been passed in Oregon, Washington State, Maine, Alaska, Colorado, and Nevada, many of them by overwhelming majorities. Last year a medical-marijuana bill was also approved by the Hawaii legislature and signed by the governor.

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113 US: This Is Your Country On Drugs, News Article #3Fri, 06 Jul 2001
Source:LA Weekly (CA) Author:Cogan, David Area:United States Lines:169 Added:07/04/2001

Feds Jack Up Sentences, Enforcement Against Ecstasy

It's a club drug, a psychoactive party favor, and for the past decade, it's fueled scenes and raves across the country. For a while it all occurred under the radar, touted by in-crowd hipsters and decried by only the most vigilant Drug War hawks. But in the past year, Ecstasy has emerged at the top of the federal government's hit list, reaching the rarefied status of cocaine, heroin and marijuana.

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114 US: This Is Your Country On Drugs, Arts Article #1Fri, 06 Jul 2001
Source:LA Weekly (CA) Author:Cullum, Paul Area:United States Lines:404 Added:07/04/2001

A History Of Drugs And The Movies

Whoa, daddy.

- -Robert Mitchum's paean to the joys of marijuana, moments before his 1948 arrest

Chemistry: the science of the composition and mutability of substances - say, how a silver nitrate emulsion can create images on a light-sensitive surface.

The processes that govern an organism, such as the inner workings of the brain.

The kismet and mutual charisma between two lovers - especially onscreen - that defies empirical measure. Taken together, this nexus of alchemy and desire may represent nothing less than a secret history of the century of film: As the solitary artist, in pursuit of the ineffable, is refracted through the chemical diversions of the day, such diversions may bypass the artist entirely to create their own brand of chemical auteurism, which in turn comes to dominate the age.

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115 US: Transcript: of Kevin Zeese's Visit to the Drug Policy ForumWed, 20 Jun 2001
Source:New York Times Drug Policy Forum          Area:United States Lines:921 Added:06/22/2001

Saturday, 23 June, at 10 p.m. Eastern, 7 p.m. Pacific: The second chat session with Judge Gray will be held in the DrugSense chat room at http://www.drugsense.org/chat/ The first chat session with Judge James Gray was held last week. A transcript of that chat is at http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1065/a01.html

June 26, 2001 8 p.m. Eastern: Kay Lee & Jodi James of the Journey for Justice http://www.journeyforjustice.org/ Journey news stories are at http://www.mapinc.org/journey.htm Join Kay and Jodi in the New York Times National Forum on Drug Policy http://forums.nytimes.com/comment/index-national.html

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116 US: Web: Raving LunacyTue, 19 Jun 2001
Source:Salon (US Web) Author:Brown, Janelle Area:United States Lines:443 Added:06/20/2001

Sell A Glowstick, Go To Prison

Authorities are shutting down 21st century raves using 1980s crack-house laws -- and turning pacifiers and vicks vaporub into the new drug paraphernalia.

Witness the humble glowstick.

This neon yellow tube of light, testament to the wonders of the nontoxic chemical reaction, is popular at Britney Spears concerts, Mardi Gras parades and summer street fairs.

But because glowsticks are also commonly found at raves, where partiers wave them about during their dance-floor kinetics, they have become a curious casualty of the government's war on drugs.

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117 US CO: Readers Speak OutSun, 04 Mar 2001
Source:Daily Camera (CO)          Area:Colorado Lines:243 Added:03/04/2001

The Daily Camera asked readers the question: "Is allowing drug-sniffing dogs into schools a good way to deter drug use or an unreasonable intrusion?" Here are some of the responses.

Readers Speak Out:

In my opinion, drug sniffing dogs would be an excellent idea in middle as well as high schools. Nothing else has been working to stem drug use. Anything we can do, including cameras, to prevent drugs from being a part of the culture of public education would improve the shabby current conditions and reputation.

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