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Newsbrief:
Madison
"Suspends"
Raves
at
County
Venue
5/17/02
Dane County, WI, whose largest
city is Madison, has suspended all "raves" at the county-owned Alliant
Center. Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk told officials at the
large venue that late-night techno music events are suspended while she
looks into whether the county can ban the events outright.
The move came days after
a sensationalistic article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel describing
an April 27-28 techno event at the center as awash in drugs. The
Journal Sentinel quoted police officers on the scene as estimating that
90% to 100% of the crowd was using ecstasy and reveled in descriptions
of "drugged out ravers in fanciful dress [flitting] around as scratchy
techno music throbs... Some wear translucent butterfly wings on their backs,
powder blue bathrobes and Burger King crowns. As ecstasy users regress
to childlike emotions, some clutch teddy bears," the newspaper reported.
The Dane County Sheriff's
Department has long sought a ban on raves on the grounds that they are
simply drug-fests, but prior to this week the county had resisted, instead
resorting to audience size caps (3,000) and banning such raver accoutrements
as glow sticks and pacifiers. The move in Madison follows similar
efforts to restrict or ban raves across the country. In Chicago,
the city adopted an ordinance allowing criminal charges to be pressed against
owners of rave venues where drug use has been documented. In Milwaukee,
local officials ran raves out of town with a massive warehouse bust a decade
ago. In Austin, heavy-handed local police and DEA officials threatened
club owners with criminal prosecutions if drug use occurred at raves.
There are many other examples.
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Issue #237, 5/17/02
Medical Marijuana Wars Heat Up: Activists Announce Day of Direct Action Against DEA, Plan Emergency Response to Expected Raids | Anti-Drug Ads a Flop, Says Drug Czar, Please Give Us Money for More | MarijuanaInfo.org: New Medical Marijuana Web Site Provides Forum for Warring Views, In-Depth Exploration of Issue | Budget Crunch I: As Oklahoma Goes Broke, Drug War Fuels Ever-Increasing Prison Budgets | Budget Crunch II: Massachusetts Vote Imperils All of State's Methadone Clinics, Supporters Mobilizing | Prison Reform Advocates Blast 7 UP Commercial for Trivializing Prison Rape, Call for Boycott of Cadbury Schweppes Product | Newsbrief: Nevada Petition Drive to Legalize Marijuana Possession Underway | Newsbrief: Madison Suspends Raves at County Venue | Newsbrief: Barr Booed for Anti-Pot Remarks in Home District Event | Newsbrief: Canadian Mounties Follow US Lead, Discover Drug-Terror Connection | Newsbrief: Canada Prisons Propose Ignoring Inmate Cannabis Use | Newsbrief: Afghan Warlords Allied to US Growing Rich Off Opium Trade, Says Expert | Newsbrief: Dionne Warwick Busted for Marijuana at Airport Amidst Heightened Airline Security | Newsbrief: Pipe Bong Found in Rural Illinois Mailbox | Clarification from Dana Beal | Articles and Resources | The Reformer's Calendar
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