I read your article on the rave culture and ecstasy. Though some of your findings fit the cliche, many of the things you reported on were isolated or skewed from what I have seen from most parties I have been to.

Granted, many kids do go to parties just for drugs. There are still quite a few of us who go for the music, though. I remember what techno and trance was like in 1995-1996, and I wish it could still be that way. Unfortunately, the media have overhyped and undermined the culture as a whole.

Denis Baldwin

Whitmore Lake

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